On 21 November 2017 at 04:02, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > Please quote properly on postgres mailing lists... We're old school [tm]. > > On 2017-11-20 11:58:44 -0800, Brian Cloutier wrote: > > > please, append session_timezone to your list > > > > Here's a v2 patch which also includes session_timezone. > > > > Separately, is this the kind of thing which is eligible for backporting > > into the next releases of 9.6 and 10? > > I don't think we quite have an established protocol for this. I > personally, but I'm biased in this specific case, is that we should > adopt a position that PGDLLIMPORTs should basically backpatched whenever > a credible extension even halfway reasonably requires it. There's no > easy way to get this done by default, and we're so far unwilling to just > slap this onto every variable. So to not further disadvantage people > force dto live in the MS environment, that seems the sanest > solution. It's not like these are high risk. > > +1 I'm all in favour of backports to the last supported release or the first one the variable appeared in. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
