Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2016-12-05 19:38 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>:
> > So make_date was introduced in 9.4 by commit f901bb50e; this report is
> > based on 9.5. Do we want to backpatch this change? Since the fix only
> > changes behavior that currently errors out anyway, we would not be
> > changing anything that people are relying on. I lean towards
> > backpatching all the way back to 9.4 myself.
>
> I have not a problem with backpatch - there are a user who see current
> behave as bug.
In the end, I decided against backpatching. It is not entirely out of
the question that somebody *is* depending on this erroring out if
negative years are passed. But I am acting on my own opinion only; if
there are more votes for a backpatch, I am open to changing it.
If not, we're done here and I'd like to move along.
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