On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> OK, well, if the consensus is in favor of a back-patch, so be it. It
>> seems a little strange to me to back-patch a commit that doesn't fix
>> anything, but I just work here.
>
> Well, it's true that we can't point to specific field reports and say
> that this will fix those. But it's not like our Windows port is so
> rock-solid-reliable that we should give it the benefit of the doubt
> about existing behaviors being correct. We do know that the code path
> in question is used in previous branches --- we put it there for a
> reason --- and I think it's probably possible that it gets exercised
> in corner cases, even pre-9.5.
Yeah, I'm just worried about collateral damage. If you're convinced
that there won't be any, have at it.
--
Robert Haas
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