From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Subject: Re: Postgres perl module namespace
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Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I just, again, tried to backport a test as part of a bugfix. The
> renaming between 14 and 15 makes that task almost comically harder. The
> only way I see of dealing with that for the next 5 years is to just
> never backpatch tests to < 15. Which seems like a bad outcome.

Yeah ...

> Except that it's *way* too late I would argue that this should just
> straight up be reverted until that aspect is addressed. It's a
> maintenance nightmare.

I'm not for that, but could it be sane to back-patch the renaming?

			regards, tom lane