Tom Lane wrote:
> Sorry for having lost track of this. I think if we're going to do this,
> we should do it now not later, because it essentially reverts the
> connectDatabase() API change made in 83dec5a71 in favor of a different API
> change with the same purpose. Now, that doesn't matter if no third-party
> code is using connectDatabase(), but I have a suspicion that there
> probably is some. Any such users will not thank us for whacking
> connectDatabase's API around in 9.5 and then whacking it around
> differently in 9.6.
>
> In short, I think we should apply this now and back-patch into 9.5,
> like the prior patch, even though we're post-RC1. The reduction in
> cross-version API churn is worth it.
>
> If no objections, I'll go do that shortly.
No objection here.
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