Re: [HACKERS] Incomplete startup packet errors

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 5:35 PM Andrew Dunstan
<andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> OK, I think we have agreement on Tom's patch. Do we want to backpatch
> it? It's a change in behaviour, but I find it hard to believe anyone
> relies on the existence of these annoying messages, so my vote would be
> to backpatch it.

I don't think it's a bug fix, so I don't think it should be
back-patched.  I think trying to guess which behavior changes are
likely to bother users is an unwise strategy -- it's very hard to know
what will actually bother people, and it's very easy to let one's own
desire to get a fix out the door lead to an unduly rosy view of the
situation.  Plus, all patches carry some risk, because all developers
make mistakes; the fewer things we back-patch, the fewer regressions
we'll introduce.

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