Em 09-01-2013 20:09, Kevin Grittner escreveu:
> Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> There have been discussions about changing that
>> if I understand it correctly, you do consider it a bug but you
>> don't want to backport a fix because it might break existent
>> behavior in some dbs, right?
> No, there has been discussion about whether different behavior
> would be better in future major releases, but no consensus has been
> reached.
>
>>> but we wouldn't treat it as a back-patchable bug fix, because
>>> it would almost certainly break things for somebody.
>> But it is not clear to me if you're willing to fix it for 9.2.3
>> for instance?
> Back-patching means changing things in a minor release, where
> things only change after the second dot. We don't make changes in
> user-visible behavior like this in minor releases; so no, we would
> not make a change like this in 9.2.3 or any other 9.2 version.
>
Ok, thanks for the explanation, Kevin.
I'm curious though. Why wouldn't this behavior be considered a bug? Is
there any link to previous discussions about this subject that I could read?
