Re: [HACKERS] Question on win32 semaphore simulation - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Well we did have a bug report by Peter Brant, and a test by him with the
>> patch that fixes it, so it seems it should be applied.  The URLs I
>> posted had that information.

> Correction.  It only goes into 8.0.X and 8.1.X.  CVS HEAD has a
> rewritten file.

That seems a bit scary --- patching stable branches with a patch that
will get zero testing in HEAD?  I think some more testing besides
Peter's would be smart first.  What if the patch behaves differently
on different versions of Windows, for instance?

            regards, tom lane