On 2013-11-15 10:43:23 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> +1 to waiting awhile. I think if we don't see any problems in
> HEAD, then back-patching as-is would be the best solution.
> The other alternatives are essentially acknowledging that you're
> back-patching something you're afraid isn't production ready.
> Let's not go there.
Agreed. Both on just backpatching it unchanged and waiting for the fix
to prove itself a bit.
> Another reason I'm not in a hurry is that the problem we're trying
> to solve doesn't seem to be causing real-world trouble. So by
> "awhile", I'm thinking "let's let it get through 9.4 beta testing".
Well, there have been a bunch of customer complaints about it, afair
that's what made Alvaro look into it in the first place. So it's not a
victimless bug.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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