Re: REINDEX and shared catalogs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: REINDEX and shared catalogs
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Msg-id 20180808191450.GD13638@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: REINDEX and shared catalogs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> I agree that it would be good to have it fixed in released versions, but
>> I also agree that such a change could cause trouble in production for
>> some.  Is the "no backpatch" idea that you will push this to both pg11
>> and master?  That would get my vote.
>
> Same here.  I am not excited about putting such a change into stable
> branches, mainly because the existing behavior has been there for
> twenty years without any previous complaints.  So it's not *that* big
> a problem.  But it's not too late for v11, I think.

We are talking a lot about the definition of what a stable branch is,
aren't we? ;p

By no-backpatch, I only implied patching v12, but that would not be a
huge amount of efforts to get that into v11, so I can do that as well.
Any objections to doing that?
--
Michael

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