Tom Lane-2 wrote
> I wrote:
>> Attached are patches meant for HEAD and 9.2-9.4 respectively.
>
> BTW, has anyone got an opinion about whether to stick the full fix into
> 9.4? The argument for, of course, is that we'd get the full fix out to
> the public a year sooner. The argument against is that someone might
> have already done compatibility testing of their application against
> 9.4 betas, and then get blindsided if we change this before release.
>
> I'm inclined to think that since we expect json/jsonb usage to really
> take off with 9.4, it might be better if we get row_to_json behaving
> unsurprisingly now. But I'm not dead set on it.
I am not one of those people who would be blindsided but I'd much rather
inconvenience our beta testers in order to get a better product in place for
the masses.
Beta testers read release notes and should be able to identify and fix any
problematic areas of their code while simultaneously being happy for the
improvements.
David J.
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