Re: Segmentation fault using digest from pg_crypto

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault using digest from pg_crypto
Date: 2007-11-05 22:15:59
Message-ID: 200711052215.lA5MFxx19320@momjian.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > > If something is not going a work (or is going a work in a different
> > > > way) in some version after loading a shot form a previous one I think
> > > > it should be documented or some kind of backwards compatibility
> > > > mechanism should be provided.
> > >
> > > That's a valid complaint and I take the blame.
> > >
> > > The problem was that such "evolution" was not actually planned.
> > > So when I noticed the 8.2 commit, I did not think of the implications
> > > hard enough to realize the need for release note for it.
> > >
> > > Tom, how about putting a note about that into next 8.2 minor
> > > release notes? (8.3 too?) Something like "You need to refresh
> > > pgcrypto functions, because since rel 8.2 the code depends
> > > on functions being tagged STRICT."
> >
> > Seems 8.2.5 was released without this release notes mention, but we
> > haven't gotten any complaints about it so perhaps we don't need to add
> > anything.
>
> Huh, I see exactly that complaint above.

My point is that we can't mention it in the release notes until 8.2.6.
Will there still be people who are having an issue with it who haven't
found the problem already? And if we put it in 8.2.6, it really was
effective for 8.2 so we just mention it in 8.2.6 and say it applies to
8.2.X too?

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