"Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.k...@excoventures.com> writes: >> On May 10, 2018, at 12:37 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> OTOH, in view of Josh's old gripe, maybe it could be argued to be a bug >> fix, at least on platforms where it does anything.
> Read back to get some history/context on this, and from my vantage > point it sounds like this is fixing a bug (i.e. incorrect behavior). It also > sounds > like based on the changes the earliest we’d be able to commit is is 11 and > not any further because people could be expecting the incorrect behavior to > happen, and thus we may break existing systems. Yeah, given the small number of complaints, I doubt back-patching would be a good idea. Seems like we should just leave this for v12. regards, tom lane