On Wednesday 16 November 2005 21:05, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > >I've never been a fan of "regression tests" in the narrow sense of
> > >"let's test for this specific mistake we made once". If you can devise
> > >a test that catches a class of errors including the one you actually
> > >made, that's a different story, because it's much more likely to catch a
> > >real future problem.
> >
> > Heh. See what I do is envision a future 10 years from now when the guy
> > who truly understands the planner and executor (Tom) has long gone and
> > the rest of us poor buggers keep on trying to change and fix things,
> > thereby recreating all these 10 year old bugs :)
>
> That's why someone else should be studying the planner and executor code
> right now ... I've long wanted to start doing it but I've been always
> distracted with other minutia ...
If you think shared row locks and subtransactions were minutia, I think you're
the right person for the job! :-)
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
