| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Fix crash bug in RestoreSnapshot. |
| Date: | 2016-07-01 14:27:13 |
| Message-ID: | CANP8+jLdR7ZxcyJ97E4wQP8nckni_xv-dFBZK2_34LCDVyTbOQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On 1 July 2016 at 16:04, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > "This can happen on standby servers"
> >
> > The commit message doesn't mention, but it applies only to parallel
> query?
> >
> > Why then is this backpatched to 9.5?
>
> Because that's where the code was added. In 9.5, it would only matter
> for extensions using the ParallelContext machinery.
>
It seems strange to me to make an unnecessary change to a production
release, that's all.
My understanding was that we backpatched only as far as a bug occurs,
rather than as far as patch can be applied.
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