В письме от 31 мая 2016 15:38:38 пользователь Robert Haas написал:
> >>> 99% of the time, you'd be right. But this is an unusual case, for the
> >>> reasons I mentioned before.
> >>
> >> I tend to agree with Nikolay. I can't see much upside in making this
> >> change. At best, nothing will break. At worst, something will break.
> >> But how do we actually come out ahead?
> >
> > We come out ahead by not having to make the documentation more confusing.
> >
> > Basically, we have the opportunity to fix an ancient mistake here at
> > very low cost. I do not think that doubling down on the mistake is
> > a better answer.
>
> I'm not convinced, but we don't have to agree on everything...
I am not convinced too. But I will not argue hard for the patch as far as my
main goal was to report inconsistency. Through the I consider Tom's proposal
quite strange...