Re: [PATCHES] Custom variable class segmentation fault

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Custom variable class segmentation fault
Date: 2006-08-14 02:27:37
Message-ID: 200608140227.k7E2RbL28564@momjian.us
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OK, with two people now concerned, patch reverted.

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > I've always found it easier to review uncommitted patches than committed
> > ones anyway. When you're playing catch-up by reviewing a committed
> > patch, you have to deal with three states of the code rather than two
> > (pre-patch, post-patch, your own mods). That gets rapidly worse if the
> > patch has been in there awhile and other changes go in on top of it.
> > Plus, once other changes accumulate on top, it becomes extremely painful
> > to revert if the conclusion is that the patch is completely broken.
> > (A conclusion that I don't think is at all unlikely with respect to
> > this patch.)
> >
> >
> >
>
> Easy or not this strikes me as good policy. And nothing is urgent quite
> yet - we still have another 18 days to the end of the month, which is
> the stated deadline for getting patches reviewed and committed.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

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