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Re: Patch: plan invalidation vs stored procedures

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Asko Oja <ascoja@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Martin Pihlak <martin.pihlak@gmail.com>
Date: 2008-08-19T18:34:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Joshua Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:29:52 -0400 (EDT)
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Do I think it should be pushed back to 8.3.x; no. It is a feature. I
> > > don't consider the existing behavior a bug. I consider it a
> > > limitation and we don't back patch fixes for limitations. 
> > 
> > The bottom line here is that we don't have the time to explain or
> > justify our backpatch policy every time someone shows up with a bug
> > that needs to be fixed.
> 
> Is our backpatch policy documented? It does not appear to be in
> developer FAQ.

Seems we need to add it.

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