On 2/13/18 18:39, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: >> Do we have a policy about catversion bumps for information schema >> changes? A cluster from before this commit fails the regression tests >> after the change, but still mostly works... > > I think historically we've not bumped catversion, on the grounds that > there's no incompatibility with the backend as such. However, it is > kind of annoying that not updating means the regression tests fail. > Informally, I'm sure most developers take "catversion bump" to mean > "you need to initdb". So I'd support saying that an information_schema > change should include a catversion bump if it involves any changes in > regression test results.
I will do that in the future if that is the preference. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
