| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net>, Guido Notari <gnotari(at)linkgroup(dot)it>, Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Backend often crashing |
| Date: | 2003-04-02 22:20:23 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0304021519440.17953-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> writes:
> > WOW,
> > Open source at it's best. A guy has a problem, goes through all the functions,
> > delivers the suspects, and another open source worker gets it fixed, in less
> > than 24 hours.
> > What a way of life :-)
>
> IMHO, the *real* advantage of open source is that Guido can patch it for
> himself, without having to wait for us to put out a new release.
>
> This is something that I think RPM distribution largely loses.
> Certainly if you only know how to install binary RPMs, you're dependent
> on the upstream folks to propagate fixes. It might be okay if you build
> from a source RPM --- can anyone comment on how hard it is to merge
> locally-supplied diffs into a source RPM? I've never tried to ...
It's probably the easiest part when it comes to making your own RPMs.
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