Re: [v9.2] DROP statement reworks

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Dimitri Fontaine
>> <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
>>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> I think that new versions of patch can handle unified diffs without a
>>>> problem, but older versions choke on them.  My Mac has 2.5.8 and
>>>> handles unidiffs no problem.
>
>>> Even containing git headers?
>
>> Yeah, it just skips right over them.  I've never had even a minor
>> problem on that account, which is why I was surprised to see it giving
>> you so much trouble.
>
> I haven't observed any such problems even with the rather ancient copy
> of GNU patch on my HPUX box (seems to be 2.5.4, released in 1999).
> I vaguely recall having had to replace the even older vendor-supplied
> patch because that one didn't do unidiffs ...

I have seen unified diffs blow up when using patch on a fairly new
HP-UX box, but I'm not sure whether I'm using an OS-supplied copy of
patch or something someone installed along the line somewhere.

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