| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump versus ancient server versions |
| Date: | 2021-12-03 20:46:04 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmob0V3dJ57vKL1iouk1oLMFn-60eAUQ+ab6=1BDG7ZC8iw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 1:30 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> What's most likely to happen IMO is that committers will just start
> back-patching essential portability fixes into out-of-support-but-
> still-in-the-buildability-window branches, contemporaneously with
> the original fix. Yeah, that does mean more committer effort,
> but only for a very small number of patches.
I agree. I think that's exactly what we want to have happen, and if a
given policy won't have exactly this result then the policy needs
adjusting.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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