David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: > Yeah, I understand that part. The pain I was talking about was > writing a patch for master, trying to apply it to the previous version > only to find it does not apply. After fixing it up for that version > trying to apply that patch to the version before that and getting more > conflicts. Repeating that down to our earliest supported version is > something I'd really love to never have to do again.
Tell me about it :-(. I've spent countless hours on that sort of activity. So I really dislike changing an API and then changing it again in the next release. regards, tom lane