On 02/01/2018 07:26 AM, David Rowley wrote:
> On 30 January 2018 at 14:14, David G. Johnston
> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This bug has an obvious if annoying work-around and fixing the bug will
>> likely cause people's code, that uses said work-around, to fail. Breaking
>> people's working code in stable release branches is generally a no-no.
>>
>> However, given that this was discovered 4 months after the feature was
>> released suggests to me that we are justified, and community-serving, to
>> back-patch this. Put more bluntly, we can ask for more leeway in the first
>> few patch releases of a new feature since more people will benefit from 5
>> years of a fully-baked feature than may be harmed by said change. We
>> shouldn't abuse that but an obvious new feature bug/oversight like this
>> seems reasonable.
>
> That seems quite rational.
>
> To prevent this getting lost I've added it to the March commitfest [1].
>
> In the commitfest application I've classed it (for now) as a bug fix.
> If that changes then we can alter it in the commitfest app.
>
> [1] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/17/1501/
>
Thank you for taking care of this.
regards
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