From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Cc: John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cutting initdb's runtime (Perl question embedded)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 17:42:48 -0400
Message-ID: <13499.1525988568@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> writes:
>> On May 10, 2018, at 12:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> OTOH, in view of Josh's old gripe, maybe it could be argued to be a bug
>> fix, at least on platforms where it does anything.
> Read back to get some history/context on this, and from my vantage
> point it sounds like this is fixing a bug (i.e. incorrect behavior). It also sounds
> like based on the changes the earliest we’d be able to commit is is 11 and
> not any further because people could be expecting the incorrect behavior to
> happen, and thus we may break existing systems.
Yeah, given the small number of complaints, I doubt back-patching would
be a good idea.
Seems like we should just leave this for v12.
regards, tom lane
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