On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> If we got this done in the next couple weeks, any resulting changes >> could go out in 9.6rc1. Given that we've not done this routinely, >> that seems like a better plan than having them first hit the field >> in minor releases of stable branches.
> I read that as we want it out in RC1 and make sure that works before we > backpatch it to earlier branches.
I think we might as well back-patch now so we don't forget to do so. rc1 will give us a chance to discover any problems, but if there are any, we'd back-patch those fixes too.
OK, fair enough if you think so. I'll go ahead and do that right away.
