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