Re: remove some ancient port hacks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: remove some ancient port hacks
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Msg-id 0c9fdc87-c41a-d6c2-8c2a-ec672dc93e44@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: remove some ancient port hacks  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 2020-08-13 05:22, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear to
>> have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove them.  See
>> attached patches.
> 
> +1 for removing these.  >10y age is not sufficient justification by itself; if
> systems that shipped with the defect were not yet EOL, that would tend to
> justify waiting longer.  For these particular hacks, though, affected systems
> are both old and EOL.

done

In this case, the bug was fixed in the stable release track of this OS, 
so the only way to still be affected would be if you had never installed 
any OS patches in 10 years, which is clearly unreasonable.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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