Hi,
>Since we have a minor coming up very soon, I think it's not a good idea
>to backpatch right now. Maybe you can push to master now, and consider
>whether to backpatch later.
>The problem is -- if somebody has an application that gets good plans
>with the current cost model, and you change the cost model and the plans
>become worse, what do they do? If you change this in a major release,
>this is not an issue because they must test their queries before
>upgrading and if they fail to realize a problem exists then it's their
>fault. If you change it in a minor release, then those people will be
>very upset that things were changed suddenly, and they may get wary of
>future minor upgrades, which we don't want.
I agree with this, especially as we tell our customers that such changes do not happen from one minor release to another.
Regards
Daniel