Re: BUG #17866: behavior does not match documentation

> On 10 Apr 2023, at 19:11, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> On 23 Mar 2023, at 22:54, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> It's more readable for sure, and it duplicates what you got in pre-v14
>>> versions, at least textually. I'm not sure I'd propose back-patching
>>> this, but it feels like a good idea for HEAD.
>
>> Agreed, I don't think this is material for backpatching.
>
> Since we didn't get anything done about that for v16, I concluded
> that adjusting the docs is a better idea. If anyone takes this
> idea up in v17 or beyond, they can always revert fbbd7edca at that
> time.

The more I think about it the more I lean towards not changing anything
(besides the docs which you did). It's been in two releases already and hardly
any complaints, so it seems to be have been quite well accepted.

--
Daniel Gustafsson