On 2021-02-01 15:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 2021-01-30 22:56, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Hmm, shouldn't there have been a catversion bump in there?
>
>> I suppose yes on the grounds that it introduces something new in a
>> freshly initdb-ed database. But I thought it wasn't necessary because
>> there is no dependency between the binaries and the on-disk state.
>
> I've generally worked on the theory that a catversion bump is indicated
> if you need to initdb in order to pass the updated regression tests.
> Which one did in this case.
Yeah, that's a good way of looking at it. I'll keep that in mind.
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