Tom Lane wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20380.1227025250@sss.pgh.pa.us" type="cite"><pre wrap="">Alvaro Herrera <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"href="mailto:alvherre@commandprompt.com"><alvherre@commandprompt.com></a> writes:
</pre><blockquotetype="cite"><pre wrap="">Bruce Momjian wrote: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">This is not
somethingwe would typically backpatch because of the danger
of introducing some unexpected change in libpq. We can provide a patch
to anyone who needs it, or if the community wants it backpatched I can
certainly do that. </pre></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br /> If we start deciding we are not backpatching
fixesthat we know cause crashes, where is the limit?<br /><br /><blockquote cite="mid:20380.1227025250@sss.pgh.pa.us"
type="cite"><blockquotetype="cite"><pre wrap="">It isn't? It does seem like a bug, which we do typically backpatch ...
</pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
Well, it's a risk-reward tradeoff. In this case it seems like there's
a nontrivial risk of creating new bugs against fixing a problem that
evidently affects very few people. I concur with Bruce's feeling that
we shouldn't backpatch ... at least not now. Once the patch has been
through beta testing we could reconsider.
regards, tom lane </pre></blockquote> I would like to see this backpatched. Even though the PostgreSQL
communityhasn't seen a lot of complaints, there have been a number of reports where the bug has caused crashes. Ubuntu
launchpadhas 6 duplicates for this bug. php has a bug report for it. So it's not like people don't know about it.
Theyjust didn't know how to fix it. All that said, I agree it's safer to wait until the 8.4 beta cycle has given this
codechange a good run before proceeding. In the mean time distributions can either backpatch it themselves or wait for
PostgreSQLcommunity to apply the patch.<br /><br /> For the environment where I have this problem, I think it's still
goingto be a up hill battle to get RedHat to incorporate the fix into RHEL5. That's whichever route the community
takeswith backpatching.<br /><br /> Russell.<br /><br />