On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:29 PM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
> But updating this tool can fit to the release schedule and
> policy of PostgreSQL?
>
> While investigating the problem by using this tool, we may want to
> add new feature into the tool because it's necessary for the investigation.
> But users would need to wait for next minor version release, to use this
> new feature.
Yeah, that's a point that needs careful thought. I don't think it
means that we shouldn't have something in core; after all, this is a
problem that is created in part by the way that PostgreSQL itself
works, and I think it would be quite unfriendly if we refused to do
anything about that in the core distribution. On the other hand, it
might be a good reason not to back-patch, which is something most
people don't seem enthusiastic about anyway.
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