On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> 99% of the time, you'd be right. But this is an unusual case, for the
>>> reasons I mentioned before.
>
>> I tend to agree with Nikolay. I can't see much upside in making this
>> change. At best, nothing will break. At worst, something will break.
>> But how do we actually come out ahead?
>
> We come out ahead by not having to make the documentation more confusing.
>
> Basically, we have the opportunity to fix an ancient mistake here at
> very low cost. I do not think that doubling down on the mistake is
> a better answer.
I'm not convinced, but we don't have to agree on everything...
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