On 2018-Sep-07, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 01:27:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > > This requires a catversion bump, for which it may seem a bit late; > > > however I think it's better to release pg11 without a useless catalog > > > column only to remove it in pg12 ... > > > > Catversion bumps during beta are routine. If we had put out rc1 > > I'd say it was too late, but we have not. > > > > If we do do a bump for beta4, I'd be strongly tempted to address the > > lack of a unique index for pg_constraint as well, cf > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/10110.1535907...@sss.pgh.pa.us > > Uh, if we add a unique index later, wouldn't that potentially cause > future restores to fail? Seems we better add it now.
Committed on Sep 4th as 17b7c302b5fc. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services