| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Fix pg_ctl restart bug |
| Date: | 2008-06-26 15:04:34 |
| Message-ID: | 20080626150434.GA4396@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > However, as of 2004-10-15, this has not worked. :-( The attached patch
> > > is the one that caused the bug --- on non-Unix systems, SYSTEMQUOTE is
> > > "", meaning zero-length string. I should have seen the bug when I
> > > applied the contributed patch in 2004.
> >
> > So, shouldn't this fix be back-patched?
>
> Well, no one has actually complained about the breakage, and it has been
> a few years. Also there is always the risk of a new bug being
> introduced, so I am unsure.
Why do we need someone to complain? We know the bug is there. Has the
code changed a lot in that area?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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