Re: Possible planner bug/regression introduced in 8.2.5 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Possible planner bug/regression introduced in 8.2.5
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Msg-id 25827.1194289693@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Possible planner bug/regression introduced in 8.2.5  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
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"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Those patches are certainly already in the 8.2 CVS branch, so your
>> question seems to mean "are we going to push 8.2.6 immediately to fix
>> this".  My vote would be no --- 8.2.5 is less than six weeks old and

> I suppose catastophic is in the eye of the beholder, but this is very,
> very severe to one of our clients. So much so that they may end up going
> back to 8.1. The patches to 8.2.5 fix some of the queries, but not all;
> some of the problems seem to exist on 8.2.4 as well. We'll try to
> develop a self-contained test case that shows the problem, but until then
> wanted to give a heads up that a problem may still exist.

All the more reason not to push 8.2.6 immediately ...

            regards, tom lane

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