Re: Patches for REL7_0_PATCHES - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Patches for REL7_0_PATCHES
Date
Msg-id 24472.973150219@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Patches for REL7_0_PATCHES  (Denis Perchine <dyp@perchine.com>)
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Denis Perchine <dyp@perchine.com> writes:
> fd.c.patch is a patch to reduce number of lseek syscalls.
> fe-misc.c.patch is a patch for libpq to cope with bugs in Linux kernel.
> pg_proc.c.patch is a patch for small memory leak in pg_proc.c.

The first of these is *certainly* inappropriate to apply as a backpatch,
and I have serious doubts about the other two as well.  We normally only
backpatch critical bug fixes, because dot-releases get almost no testing
before release.  I'm not convinced these are critical...

            regards, tom lane

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