Re: pgsql: Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arg - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: pgsql: Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arg
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Msg-id 201112121955.36976.andres@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: pgsql: Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arg  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arg  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
Re: pgsql: Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arg  (Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>)
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On Monday, December 12, 2011 07:48:01 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On Monday, December 12, 2011 09:29:23 AM Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arguments.
> >
> > Whats the plan to handle this wrt a stable release?
>
> I was wondering whether we shouldn't revert the original patch
> altogether in the back branches.  As far as I'd heard, there were
> no reports of the previous coding causing real trouble, and this
> episode demonstrates that there is a possibility to make things
> worse rather than better.  I think maybe we'd better treat this
> change as something to make in HEAD only.
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