Re: [PATCH v1] Add vacuum_delay_point() to GiST empty-page deletion pass

On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 05:11:51PM +0500, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2026, at 15:02, Paul Kim <mok03127(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> This is long-standing rather than a recent regression, so I'll leave the
>> question of back-patching to a committer. Note that on branches before
>> 18 vacuum_delay_point() takes no argument (the bool was added by
>> e5b0b0ce150), so a back-patch would drop the "false".
>
> I don't know whether we should back-patch this. But I think the decision
> should be aligned with the similar one in your GIN thread [0].

Adding Heikki in CC as the committer of the change that removed
vacuum_delay_point() would attract his attention more easily. Done so
now.

I'd argue that this does not feel like a backpatch is strictly
required here. It took somebody 7 years to notice the gap, and I
suspect that some AI tool has been used for the scanning analysis.
--
Michael