Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: make_restrictinfo() failed to attach the specified - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: make_restrictinfo() failed to attach the specified
Date
Msg-id 20051117020511.GF24640@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: make_restrictinfo() failed to attach  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: make_restrictinfo() failed to attach the specified  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: make_restrictinfo() failed to attach the specified  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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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 ...

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