On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:26 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I think this is nuts. The current behavior is obviously broken; > we should just treat it as a bug and fix it, including back-patching. > I do not think there is a compatibility problem of any significance. > Who out there is going to have an application that is relying on the > ability to insert BC dates in this way?
I think that's entirely the wrong way to look at it. If nobody is using the feature, then it will not break anything to change the behavior, but on the other hand there is no reason to fix the bug either. But if people are using the feature, making it behave differently in the next minor release is going to break their applications. I disagree *strongly* with making such changes in stable branches and feel that the change to those branches should be reverted. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
