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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2019-10-13 10:29:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> How recent do you think it needs to be?

> My experience reporting kernel bugs is that the latest released version,
> or even just the tip of the git tree, is your best bet :/.

Considering that we're going to point them at chapter and verse in
Torvald's own repo, I do not think they can claim that we're worried
about obsolete code.

			regards, tom lane