Re: pgsql: Set the volatility of the timestamptz version of date_bin() back - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Set the volatility of the timestamptz version of date_bin() back
Date
Msg-id 2598498.1630702074@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Set the volatility of the timestamptz version of date_bin() back  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2021-Sep-03, John Naylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 1:46 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
>> wrote:
>>> These catversion bumps in branch 14 this late in the cycle seem suspect.
>>> Didn't we have some hesitation to push multirange unnest around beta2
>>> precisely because of a desire to avoid catversion bumps?

>> This was for correcting a mistake (although the first commit turned out to
>> be a mistake itself), so I understood it to be necessary.

> A crazy idea might have been to return to the original value.

Yes, that is what should have been done, as I complained over
in pgsql-committers before seeing this exchange.  As things
stand, a pg_upgrade is going to be forced on beta3 users
without even the excuse of fixing a bug.

            regards, tom lane



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