From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Segmentation fault using digest from pg_crypto |
Date: | 2007-11-07 13:48:36 |
Message-ID: | 200711071348.lA7DmaV05743@momjian.us |
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Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 11/6/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > > > Tom, how about putting a note about that into next 8.2 minor
> > > > > release notes? (8.3 too?) Something like "You need to refresh
> > > > > pgcrypto functions, because since rel 8.2 the code depends
> > > > > on functions being tagged STRICT."
> > > >
> > > > Seems 8.2.5 was released without this release notes mention, but we
> > > > haven't gotten any complaints about it so perhaps we don't need to add
> > > > anything.
> > >
> > > Huh, I see exactly that complaint above.
> >
> > My point is that we can't mention it in the release notes until 8.2.6.
> > Will there still be people who are having an issue with it who haven't
> > found the problem already? And if we put it in 8.2.6, it really was
> > effective for 8.2 so we just mention it in 8.2.6 and say it applies to
> > 8.2.X too?
>
> We know that only few people have found the problem, because
> there is no way for them to guess what the fix should be
> by themselves, without consulting postgres lists.
>
> And I suspect most of the people who have not found out about
> the bug would still like to fix it in their setup, as crashing
> database is not fun. If only they knew about the problem...
OK, should we add a mention in the 8.2.6 release notes or put it in the
8. notes and figure if someone is upgrading they will read the 8.2
notes? What would the description be?
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