Re: pg_upgrade and toasted pg_largeobject

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade and toasted pg_largeobject
Date: 2016-05-03 18:52:02
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYfqRTPmJcGSBJwUDJuR6TfpvVZrJF_=f9x+8SAvdPTgw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Any thoughts what to do with this? We could decide that it's a bug fix
>> and backpatch, or decide that it's a new feature and delay till 9.7,
>> or decide that it's a minor bug fix and add it to 9.6 only. I kinda lean
>> towards the last alternative.
>
> How about backpatching patch 1 all the way back, and putting the others
> in 9.6?

Why would we do that? It seems very odd to back-patch a pure
refactoring - isn't that taking a risk for no benefit?

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Robert Haas
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