Re: pgsql: Dissociate btequalimage() from interval_ops, ending its deduplic

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Dissociate btequalimage() from interval_ops, ending its deduplic
Date: 2023-10-15 02:02:55
Message-ID: 1991711.1697335375@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 08:27:58PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Well, that's indeed going to be a pain for affected people, but
>> it doesn't seem like a reason to also break installcheck.

> That's right. We don't have a standard that installcheck of v13.N will have
> zero diffs on an initdb from v13.0.

Um ... don't we? I do not recall very many cases where we changed
initial catalog contents at all in a point release, and I don't think
any of those cases intentionally created regression diffs.

> We've got bigger fish to fry.

True, this isn't going to affect many people either way. But
I don't think you've made a good precedent here.

regards, tom lane

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