Re: Typo in bufmgr.c that result in waste of memory - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Typo in bufmgr.c that result in waste of memory
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Msg-id 8F8A17F1-861C-4613-8D6F-D511BF1E3527@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Typo in bufmgr.c that result in waste of memory  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

Nice catch!

On February 19, 2016 2:42:08 PM GMT+01:00, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I think we should fix it, but not backpatch.
>
>I don't think that's particularly good policy.  It's a clear bug, why
>would we not fix it?  Leaving it as-is in the back branches can have
>no good effect, and what it does do is create a merge hazard for other
>back-patchable bug fixes in the same area.

Agreed. Unless somebody beats be to it, I'll do do so in a couple hours (11h flight now.

Andres

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