On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > "This can happen on standby servers" > > The commit message doesn't mention, but it applies only to parallel query? > > Why then is this backpatched to 9.5?
Because that's where the code was added. In 9.5, it would only matter for extensions using the ParallelContext machinery.
It seems strange to me to make an unnecessary change to a production release, that's all.
My understanding was that we backpatched only as far as a bug occurs, rather than as far as patch can be applied.
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