On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 03:54:24PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm very surprised that this was back-patched. I think we should
> > revert it from the back-branches before it gets into a minor release.
> > It seems like a clear definitional change, which has no business in a
> > minor release.
>
> I was troubled by that too. Maybe this can be painted as a bug fix
> but it seems very questionable --- and even if it is, is it worth
> the risk of unexpected side-effects? I'd rather see something that
> touches wire-protocol behavior go through a normal beta test cycle.
Yeah, I was surprised too, even though the author was clear they wanted
to backpatch. I couldn't figure out why it was being backpatched, so I
figured I was missing something.
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