Re: pgsql: Revive line type

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 01:24:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2013-10-10 02:43:20 +0000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Revive line type
>
> > That commit missed to update pg_type.h to the changed length of the line
> > type. Patch attached.
>
> Ouch. Good thing we caught this now.
>
> In principle, fixing this breaks pg_upgrade'ability for anyone who was
> using the line type before (presumably by compiling with
> -DENABLE_LINE_TYPE). However, we're breaking things for them anyway by
> changing the text representation, so that's probably not worth worrying
> over.

Should this be listed in the 9.4 release notes? We didn't have _any_
line type before unless you -D/enabled it? Our release notes say:

Fully-implement the <link
linkend="datatype-line"><type>line</></link> data type (Peter
Eisentraut)

Is this text misleading?

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