On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM Melanie Plageman
> <melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > yikes, you are right about the "reason" member. Attached 0002 removes
> > it, and I'll go ahead and fix it in the back branches too.
>
> I think changing this in the back-branches is a super-bad idea. If you
> want, you can add a comment in the back-branches saying "oops, we
> shipped a field that isn't used for anything", but changing the struct
> definition is very likely to make 0 people happy and >0 people
> unhappy. On the other hand, changing this in master is a good idea and
> you should go ahead and do that before this creates any more
> confusion.
Yes, that makes 100% sense. It should have occurred to me. I've pushed
the commit to master. I didn't put an updated set of patches here in
case someone was already reviewing them, as nothing else has changed.
- Melanie