On 2/11/22 19:13, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 1:06 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> While I'm not opposed to moving those goalposts at some point,
>> I think pushing them all the way up to 9.5 for this one easily-fixed
>> problem is not very reasonable.
>>
>> Given other recent discussion, an argument could be made for moving
>> the cutoff to 9.2, on the grounds that it's too hard to test against
>> anything older. But that still leaves us needing a version check
>> if we want to use TABLESAMPLE.
>
> OK, thanks.
>
Yeah, I think checking server_version is fairly simple. Which is mostly
why I haven't done anything about that in the submitted patch, because
the other issues (what fraction to sample) seemed more important.
regards
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