Re: postgres_fdw - should we tighten up batch_size, fetch_size options against non-numeric values?

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 6:07 PM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
>
> On 2021/07/01 13:16, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 8:23 AM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
> >> The recent commit 61d599ede7 documented that the type of those options is
> >> floating point. But the docs still use "is a numeric value" in the descriptions
> >> of them. Probably it should be replaced with "is a floating point value" there.
> >> If we do this, isn't it better to use "floating point" even in the error message?
> >
> > Agreed. PSA v5 patch.
>
> Thanks for updating the patch! LGTM.
> Barring any objection, I will commit this patch.

Thanks.

> One question is; should we back-patch this? This is not a bug fix,
> so I'm not sure if it's worth back-patching that to already-released versions.
> But it may be better to do that to v14.

IMO, it's a good-to-have fix in v14. But, -1 for backpatching to v13
and lower branches.

Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.