On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >> After struggling with back-patching a GIN bug fix, I wish to offer up the >> considered opinion that this was an impressively bad idea. It's inserted >> 450 or so pain points for back-patching, which we will have to deal with >> for the next five years.
> I understand the backpatching pain argument, but my opinion was the > contrary of yours even so. The other possibility would be to backpatch the no-op patch which just uses the new syntax without any change in semantics. I'm not arguing for that; just putting it on the table.... -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
