Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> There have been discussions about changing that
> if I understand it correctly, you do consider it a bug but you
> don't want to backport a fix because it might break existent
> behavior in some dbs, right?
No, there has been discussion about whether different behavior
would be better in future major releases, but no consensus has been
reached.
>> but we wouldn't treat it as a back-patchable bug fix, because
>> it would almost certainly break things for somebody.
>
> But it is not clear to me if you're willing to fix it for 9.2.3
> for instance?
Back-patching means changing things in a minor release, where
things only change after the second dot. We don't make changes in
user-visible behavior like this in minor releases; so no, we would
not make a change like this in 9.2.3 or any other 9.2 version.
-Kevin