Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to> wrote:
>> I'm not sure how changing behavior like this in a minor release was
>> considered acceptable.
> I'm guessing that the fact that it changes behavior in cases like this
> wasn't recognized, but I suppose Peter will have to be the one to
> comment on that.
It was considered to be a bug fix; more, given the few complaints about
the clearly-broken old behavior, we thought it was a fix that would affect
few people, and them positively. Sorry you're not happy about it, but
these things are always judgment calls.
regards, tom lane