Andres Freund wrote:
> Ugh. I personally would say that's because that commit did stuff that we
> normally trie hard not to do. While ColumnDef at least isn't serialized
> into catalogs, we normally trie hard to break struct layout. Peter,
> shouldn't that field at the very least have been added at the end?
FWIW we just noticed that because commit 699bf7d05 changed the
heap_prepare_freeze_tuple() ABI back in December, it caused similar
breakage :-( I didn't notice the implications when I read the patch.
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