Re: contrib modules and relkind check

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Michael Paquier (michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> Thanks. Shouldn't this fix be back-patched? pg_visibility should fail
>> properly for indexes and other relkinds even in 9.6. pgstattuple can
>> also trigger failures. It would be confusing for users to face "could
>> not open file" kind of errors instead of a proper error message. Note
>> that I am fine to produce those patches if there is a resource issue
>> for any of you two.
>
> I'm not really convinced that back-patching this is worthwhile, which is
> why I didn't go through the effort to do so. A reasonable error will be
> thrown in either case, after all, without any bad behavior happening,
> from what I can see.

Okay, I don't mind as nobody has complained about pgstattuple in particular.

> That said, if you feel strongly enough about it to propose appropriate
> patches for the back-branches, I'll try and look at them before the next
> set of point releases, but I'm not going to deal with them this month as
> I'd like to get through as much of the CF for PG10 as we can.

Nah, let's see if somebody else complains.
--
Michael