On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I have committed a fix into REL7_0 branch. Although it seems to work,
> >> I don't trust it really far because it depends on heap_markpos() and
> >> heap_restrpos(), which haven't been used in a long time and are full
> >> of alarmed-sounding comments.
>
> > Do you have any thoughts as to what sorts of problems *might*
> > arise? Like, are we talking database corruption possibilities, or bad
> > results, or ... ? Just want to have an idea of what to try and keep an
> > eye out for ...
>
> I may be overstating the cause for worry. All of the "alarmed-sounding
> comments" appear to date back to the original Postgres95 sources, and
> are probably obsolete. The only thing I really have any concern about
> is whether buffer pin/unpin bookkeeping is correct. If it's not,
> you'd see an Assert failure from too many unpins (you are running with
> --enable-cassert I hope) or "Buffer Leak" notices in the log from too
> many pins.
Haven't been running it with cassert, but will enable it *nod*
Thanks for the backpatch ...:)
