On 2018-Aug-15, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > I'm almost tempted to think that the reasons above make this a
> > back-patchable bug fix. Comments?
>
> No objections to changing the behavior. Have you checked whether
> there are any noticeable performance consequences?
>
> Back-patching seems a bit aggressive to me considering that the danger
> is hypothetical.
That was my first thought too, and my preferred path would be to make
this master-only and only consider a backpatch later if we find some
practical reason to do so.
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