Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> writes: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> +1. If the problem isn't known to be reproducible in those branches, >> the risk of adding new bugs seems to outweigh any benefit.
> You could make the same objection to changing tuplesort_getdatum() > outside of the master branch, though. I think that going back further > than that for the (arguably independent) tuplesort_getdatum() subset > fix might still be a good idea. I wonder where you stand on this. I haven't been following the thread very closely, so I don't have an opinion on that. regards, tom lane