On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:02 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > By the way, if we decide to do something about this, I think we do the
> > same for partitioned tables.
>
> I'm up for changing the behavior of partitioned tables in pg12 (please
> send a patch), but I'm up for changing the behavior of partitioned
> tables in pg11.
Uh, what?
I strongly object to inserting behavior changes into released branches
on the grounds that the behavior wasn't considered carefully enough
before feature freeze. If we accept that as a justification, then
anybody can claim that any behavior change should be back-patched at
any time as long as they were the author of the original patch. But
that's not a recipe for a stable product. There's got to be a point
at which we say, yeah, you know, this is maybe not the perfect set of
design decisions, but we're going to support the decisions we made for
the next 5 years. And maybe we'll make better ones in the next
release.
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Robert Haas
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