Hi,
On 2022-04-18 10:26:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > I just, again, tried to backport a test as part of a bugfix. The
> > renaming between 14 and 15 makes that task almost comically harder. The
> > only way I see of dealing with that for the next 5 years is to just
> > never backpatch tests to < 15. Which seems like a bad outcome.
>
> Yeah ...
>
> > Except that it's *way* too late I would argue that this should just
> > straight up be reverted until that aspect is addressed. It's a
> > maintenance nightmare.
>
> I'm not for that
I'm not either, at this point...
> but could it be sane to back-patch the renaming?
That might be the best. But it might not even suffice. There've been
other global refactorings between 14 and 15. E.g. 201a76183e2.
I wonder if we should just backpatch the current PostgreSQL module, but
leave the old stuff around :/.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
