Re: Fix pg_ctl restart bug - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Fix pg_ctl restart bug
Date
Msg-id 20080626150434.GA4396@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Fix pg_ctl restart bug  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Fix pg_ctl restart bug
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > However, as of 2004-10-15, this has not worked.  :-(  The attached patch
> > > is the one that caused the bug --- on non-Unix systems, SYSTEMQUOTE is
> > > "", meaning zero-length string.  I should have seen the bug when I
> > > applied the contributed patch in 2004.
> >
> > So, shouldn't this fix be back-patched?
>
> Well, no one has actually complained about the breakage, and it has been
> a few years.  Also there is always the risk of a new bug being
> introduced, so I am unsure.

Why do we need someone to complain?  We know the bug is there.  Has the
code changed a lot in that area?

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