Re: power() function in Windows: "value out of range: underflow"

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> > But I don't think
> > we should discount the existence of the former category. Deploying
> > to production on an older release of $system than you develop on
> > is hardly an unusual scenario.
>
> That's probably true, but making dev, test, and production boxes
> similar is generally good practice and users can do as much or as
> little of it as they find they need in order to avoid getting burned.
> They can't do anything about behavior changes we inject into minor
> releases.

​+1; this doesn't seem clear-cut and important enough to deviate from the
(for me) preferable position of leaving well-enough-alone in the back
branches.

David J.