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Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> I'd like to pick this patch up and see it through to commit/push. 
> Presumably that will include back-patching to all supported pg versions.
> Before I go through the effort to back-patch, does anyone want to argue 
> that this should *not* be back-patched?

Hm, I'm -0.5 or so.  I think changing security-related behaviors
in a stable branch is a hard sell unless you are closing a security
hole.  This is a fine improvement for HEAD but I'm inclined to
leave the back branches alone.

			regards, tom lane