Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:00:17 +0900
From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>,
	pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Commit/abort WAL records with dropped rels missing
 XLR_SPECIAL_REL_UPDATE
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On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:05:43AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 2:17 PM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrot=
e:
>> It's always been like that, but I am not going backport, for fear of
>> breaking existing applications. If a program reads the WAL, and would
>> actually need to do something with commit records dropping relations,
>> that seems like such a common scenario that the author should've thought
>> about it and handled it even without the flag reminding about it. Fixing
>> it in master ought to be enough.
>=20
> +1 for doing it in master only. Even if someone comes up with such a
> scenario for back-branches, we can revisit our decision to backport
> this but like you, I also don't see any pressing need to do it now.

+1.
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Michael

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