Re: Oops - BF:Mastodon just died

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>>> For now I'm going try to fix it by changing it to:
>>> next unless $pieces[0] =~/^[A-F0-9]{3}$/;

> Yeah, nice catch. Wouldn't surprise me if we actually had this problem
> before, just that the dropped symbols were not actually used by our own
> modules. I notice the export count jumped to 5226...

I was wondering where the count would go.

It strikes me that the pattern needs to be {3,} or maybe just +.
I dunno what this column is measuring, but if we are past 0xA00
then surely 0x1000 is not far away.

			regards, tom lane