"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> This seems surprising to me: any other program in the world would do
>>> exit(1) after discovering that it couldn't write where it had been
>>> told to. Should we change this?
>> I assume this is a rhetorical question.
> How about this one: do we change this behavior in the back branches?
I don't think we should change this in stable branches. I would vote
for fixing it in 9.5, though, mainly because the fix is going to interact
with the extended-mode-wrap fixes I'm also working on.
regards, tom lane
