Re: 9.3.9 and pg_multixact corruption - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: 9.3.9 and pg_multixact corruption
Date
Msg-id 20151004063335.GA4129520@tornado.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: 9.3.9 and pg_multixact corruption  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:10:52AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Andreas Seltenreich <andreas.seltenreich@credativ.de> wrote:
> > OTOH, a unit test for multixact.c that exercises the code including
> > wraparounds sounds like a desirable thing regardless of the fact that it
> > could have caught this miscompilation earlier than 6 months into
> > production.
> 
> Definitely.

+1.  Catching compiler bugs is an important role of "make check".  That suite
has a notable gap if it passes despite a compiler bug ruining the binary.



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