Re: Add missing period to HINT messages

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add missing period to HINT messages
Date: 2026-04-14 01:00:16
Message-ID: CAKFQuwaLqZGubKbb0z-_-fE3UEd3T+ScF8DBJDwnfTaUkDNmDA@mail.gmail.com
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On Monday, April 13, 2026, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net> wrote:

>
>
> I don't have a strong opinion on it, but I think generally that clean
> up patches (where we aren't fixing some kind of document mistake or
> misleading information) generally just go into HEAD for the next
> release, though if it easily applies cleanly to back branches and you
> want to do it, it's probably ok to apply it backwards, but I wouldn't
> spend any time on it if it didn't.
>

I was under the impression that on both user-facing behavior changes
grounds, and translation grounds, back-patching changes to existing
messages is not allowed absent a true factual bug.

David J.

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