On 4/19/22 16:00, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 3:39 PM Mark Dilger
> <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Since there hasn't been any agreement on that point, I've just rebased the patch to apply cleanly against the
currentmaster:
>
> This looks OK to me. There may be better ways to do some of it, but
> there's no rule against further improving the code later. Also, since
> the issue was introduced in v14, we probably shouldn't wait forever to
> do something about it. However, there is a procedural issue here now
> that we are past feature freeze. I think someone could defensibly take
> any of the following positions:
>
> (A) This is a new feature. Wait for v16.
> (B) This is a bug fix. Commit it now and back-patch to v14.
> (C) This is a cleanup that is OK to put into v15 even after feature
> freeze but since it is a behavior change we shouldn't back-patch it.
>
> I vote for (C). What do other people think?
I vote for (B).
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