Re: Patch: plan invalidation vs stored procedures

David Fetter wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:40:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>   
>> "Asko Oja" <ascoja@gmail.com> writes:
>>     
>>> Is it possible to get it into some official 8.3.x release
>>>       
>> This is not the kind of patch we put into stable branches.
>>     
>
> Does this really count as a user-visible change, except in the sense
> that they won't see things erroring out?  It doesn't add new syntax,
> as far as I can tell.
>
>   

So what? That is not the only criterion for backpatching.

The bigger the change the more resistance there will be to backpatching 
it. Code stability is a major concern.

cheers

andrew