Ok, understood :-)
Dmitry Shalashov, relap.io & surfingbird.ru
2017-11-25 18:42 GMT+03:00 Tom Lane :
> Michael Paquier writes:
> > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Dmitry Shalashov
> wrote:
> >> Is it completely safe to use manually patched version in production?
>
> > Patching upstream PostgreSQL to fix a critical bug is something that
> > can of course be done. And to reach a state where you think something
> > is safe to use in production first be sure to test it thoroughly on a
> > stage instance. The author is also working on Postgres for 20 years,
> > so this gives some insurance.
>
> It's not like there's some magic dust that we sprinkle on the code at
> release time ;-). If there's a problem with that patch, it's much more
> likely that you'd discover it through field testing than that we would
> notice it during development (we missed the original problem after all).
> So you can do that field testing now, or after 10.2 comes out. The
> former seems preferable, if you are comfortable with building a patched
> copy at all. I don't know what your normal source of Postgres executables
> is, but all the common packaging technologies make it pretty easy to
> rebuild a package from source with patch(es) added. Modifying your
> vendor's SRPM (or equivalent concept if you're not on Red Hat) is a
> good skill to have.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
