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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:32:21PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Defaulting BUFFERS to ON is probably a reasonable change, thuogh.

> Would this be worth back-patching? I ask because adding it will cause
> fairly large (if mechanical) churn in the regression tests.

It really doesn't matter how much churn it causes in the regression tests.
Back-patching a significant non-bug behavioral change like that is exactly
the kind of thing we don't do, because it will cause our users pain.

			regards, tom lane