On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote:

> There have been
> cases where we chose to not back-patch an unambiguous bug fix even
> though it was clear that incorrect user-visible behavior remained.
>

​The risk here is significantly reduced since the existing user-visible
behavior is an error which presumably no one is relying upon.  Between that
and being able to conform to the standard syntax for a long-standing
feature I would say the benefit outweighs the cost and risk.

+0.5 to back-patching

David J.
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