Re: [PATCH] We install pg_regress and isolationtester but not pg_isolation_regress

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:41 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:44:45PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> >> I just wanted to let you know that TimescaleDB uses
> >> pg_isolation_regress and occasionally there are reports from some
> >> suffering/puzzled users/developers, e.g. [1]. Not 100% sure if it
> >> makes investing the time into backpatching worth it. However if
> >> someone could do it, it would be nice.
>
> > FWIW, I am not really sure that this is important enough to justify a
> > back-patch, even it is true that there have been cases in the past
> > where extra binaries got added in minor releases.
>
> Yeah, I think adding a binary in a minor release is a Big Deal to
> packagers. I doubt that the case here justifies that.

+1.

Given the number of complaints from people lacking it since the binary
was first created, I can't see how that's a priority that justifies
that.

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