On 2018-07-31 17:53:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> writes: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > >> I'm a bit surprised that you decided to push to the 11 branch - the > >> consensus in this thread seem to have gone the other way by my read? > >> Given that that's the rule, and pushing non-fixes is the exception, I'm > >> not particularly ok with just ignoring that? > > > +1 > > By my count of people expressing opinions, we had Michael -1, Stephen -1, > me -0.1 or so, Alvaro +1, Peter -1, presumably +1 from Andrew; and Andres > made a comment about not waiting, which perhaps Andrew read as a +1 for > backpatching. So it's not unreasonable for Andrew to have decided that > it was about tied. Nonetheless, it does seem like a feature and we're > past feature freeze, so the default assumption ought to be "no backpatch" > IMO.
Yea, I don't think it's an entirely unreasonable to decide to backpatch based on these votes, but I think if the stated opinions are like you count, it's pretty reasonable to at least announce that the more controversial choice is the plan and give a chance to more vigorously object. Greetings, Andres Freund
