Re: Bizarre 7.3.2 bug - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bizarre 7.3.2 bug
Date
Msg-id 371.1050987833@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bizarre 7.3.2 bug  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
Responses Re: Bizarre 7.3.2 bug  (Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>)
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Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> --On Monday, April 21, 2003 21:43:54 -0700 Sean Chittenden 
> <sean@chittenden.org> wrote:
>> Hrm, alright, well, with the coming of 7.3.3 soon-ish, and given that
>> RT and Horde are still broken (does anyone have any pull with that
>> crowd and the ability to submit patches?), I'll make sure to
>> conditionalize patch when the next version comes out, but I'm not
>> going to force admins to rebuild their DBs unless really necessary.

> RT's author hasn't released a release in a LONG time, and I don't have any 
> pull.

> As to Horde, I don't have any insight.  Sorry.

The obvious solution to this sort of problem would be to introduce a
GUC variable ("allow_zero_length_integers" or some such name).  I do
not recall why we decided not to do that to begin with --- should we
reconsider, or is it too late to worry about it?
        regards, tom lane



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