On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> After struggling with back-patching a GIN bug fix, I wish to offer up the
>> considered opinion that this was an impressively bad idea. It's inserted
>> 450 or so pain points for back-patching, which we will have to deal with
>> for the next five years.
> I understand the backpatching pain argument, but my opinion was the
> contrary of yours even so.
The other possibility would be to backpatch the no-op patch which
just uses the new syntax without any change in semantics.
I'm not arguing for that; just putting it on the table....
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