Re: pgsql: Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arg

On Monday, December 12, 2011 07:48:01 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On Monday, December 12, 2011 09:29:23 AM Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arguments.
> >
> > Whats the plan to handle this wrt a stable release?
>
> I was wondering whether we shouldn't revert the original patch
> altogether in the back branches.  As far as I'd heard, there were
> no reports of the previous coding causing real trouble, and this
> episode demonstrates that there is a possibility to make things
> worse rather than better.  I think maybe we'd better treat this
> change as something to make in HEAD only.
+1