On 2019-06-27 18:50, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> Whether we *want* to document that it works, documenting that it
>> doesn't work when it does can't be the right answer. If you want to
>> couch the language to leave the door open that we may not support this
>> the same way in the future I wouldn't be opposed to that, but at this
>> point we will have three releases with the current behavior in
>> production, so if we decide to change the behavior, it is likely going
>> to break certain use cases. That may be ok, but I'd expect a
>> documentation update to accompany a change that would cause such a
>> breaking change.
>>
> I agree with that. We have this behavior for quite a bit of time, and
> while technically we could change the behavior in the future (using the
> "not supported" statement), IMO that'd be pretty annoying move. I always
> despised systems that "fix" bugs by documenting that it does not work, and
> this is a bit similar.
committed back to PG10
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