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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: Chao Li <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add missing period to HINT messages
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:00:16 -0700
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On Monday, April 13, 2026, Robert Treat <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> I don't have a strong opinion on it, but I think generally that clean
> up patches (where we aren't fixing some kind of document mistake or
> misleading information) generally just go into HEAD for the next
> release, though if it easily applies cleanly to back branches and you
> want to do it, it's probably ok to apply it backwards, but I wouldn't
> spend any time on it if it didn't.
>

I was under the impression that on both user-facing behavior changes
grounds, and translation grounds, back-patching changes to existing
messages is not allowed absent a true factual bug.

David J.


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