Re: upgrade failure from 9.5 to head

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> On 2015-08-04 13:52:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Not sure whether we should consider it a back-patchable bug fix or
>>> something to do only in HEAD, though --- comments?

>> Tentatively I'd say it's a bug and should be back-patched.

> Agreed.  If investigation turns up reasons to worry about
> back-patching it, I'd possibly back-track on that position, but I
> think we should start with the notion that it is back-patchable and
> retreat from that position only at need.

OK.  Certainly we can fix 9.5 the same way as HEAD; the pg_dump code
hasn't diverged much yet.  I'll plan to push it as far back as convenient,
but I won't expend any great effort on making the older branches do it if
they turn out to be too different.
        regards, tom lane