Re: 7.2.3 fixes (was Re: Cause of missing pg_clog files) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: 7.2.3 fixes (was Re: Cause of missing pg_clog files)
Date
Msg-id 20020930170718.Z5848@mail.libertyrms.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to 7.2.3 fixes (was Re: Cause of missing pg_clog files)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:18:27AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> use 7.3beta1 has had).  On the third hand, the patch only does something
> if mktime() has already failed, so it's hard to see how it could make
> life worse even if it's buggy.

On those grounds alone, it seems worth putting in.  As you say, it's
hard to see how it can be worse than not putting it in, even if it
turns out to be buggy.  It's probably worth noting prominently in the
release notes that it has received minimal testing, though.

A

-- 
----
Andrew Sullivan                         204-4141 Yonge Street
Liberty RMS                           Toronto, Ontario Canada
<andrew@libertyrms.info>                              M2P 2A8                                        +1 416 646 3304
x110



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: 7.2.3 patching done
Next
From: Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/contrib/rserv ApplySnapshot.in CleanLog. ...