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.