Re: Segmentation fault using digest from pg_crypto - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Segmentation fault using digest from pg_crypto
Date
Msg-id 200711110345.lAB3jm616047@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Segmentation fault using digest from pg_crypto  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Marko Kreen" <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> > > On 11/10/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > >> OK, first question.  How would someone have the 8.0 signatures in 8.2?
> > >> Don't they reinstall pgcrypto for every major release?
> > 
> > > Why reinstall if the functions come from dump?
> > 
> > > At least in skype we stumbled on the problem.  But if the reinstall
> > > is widespread practice, then indeed it may not be worth bothering.
> > 
> > If you don't re-run a contrib module's sql script then you don't get any
> > new functions that may have been added to the module.  So I think the
> > real issue here is that we ought to deprecate the idea of skipping that
> > step, period.
> 
> When did we ever promote such a skipping idea?  Seems we need to add
> some documentation for this.  Once we get the /contrib docs moved to
> SGML I can add something.

Documentation added.

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