Re: ftell mismatch with expected position - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: ftell mismatch with expected position
Date
Msg-id 200703022231.l22MVSw07643@momjian.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to ftell mismatch with expected position  ("Jan Muszynski" <postgres@jancm.org>)
Responses Re: ftell mismatch with expected position  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
List pgsql-general
Jan Muszynski wrote:
> I found this thread (I'm posting here because I'm not subscribed to
> Hackers)
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/msg85241.html
>
> which seems to be talking about this issue. I'm just wondering what the
> current status on this is. Someone I know is getting this error -(I'm not
> 100% sure what version he's running other than it's an 8.2 series,
> although I am finding out. And yes it's definitely on Windows).
>
> Does he have to wait until 8.3? Will it be fixed in 8.3? Or is it fixed in
> the latest release?

It will be fixed in 8.3.  It is too risky to backpatch to 8.2.X.  The
fix is in current CVS, but again that is 8.3.

> Any suggestions for a workaround? (I told him he can generate a Plain
> backup and compress the result using zip, rar, etc - will this work?)

Yes.

--
  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>          http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                               http://www.enterprisedb.com

  + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Bruno Wolff III
Date:
Subject: Re: Why does "group by" need to match select fields?
Next
From: Jeff Davis
Date:
Subject: Re: How often do I need to reindex tables?