On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 06:10:38PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:35 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > By that logic, we should never fix any bug in a back branch.
>
> No, by that logic, we should not change any behavior in a back-branch
> upon which a customer is plausibly relying. No one relies on a certain
> query causing a server crash, for example, or a cache lookup failure,
> so fixing those things can only help people. But there is no reason at
> all why someone shouldn't be relying on this very old and
> long-established behavior not to change in a minor release.
That is an interesting distinction.
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