Re: silent data loss with ext4 / all current versions

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> I would like to have a patch for this finalized today, so that we can
>> apply to master before or during the weekend; with it in the tree for
>> about a week we can be more confident and backpatch close to next
>> weekend, so that we see it in the next set of minor releases.  Does that
>> sound good?
>
> I see no reason to wait before backpatching.  If you're concerned about
> having testing, the more branches it is in, the more buildfarm cycles
> you will get on it.  And we're not going to cut any releases in between,
> so what's the benefit of not having it there?

Agreed.

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