Re: postgres patch for autovacuum error in postgres

On 09/10/2010 04:38 AM, tamanna madaan wrote:

> Due to some reason I don’t want to upgrade to postgres-8.1.6.

Why? Seriously?

If Oracle announced that they were releasing a patch for six critical
data-loss bugs in 9i, one of which affected you, would you call support
and ask them to make a custom patch just for you that only fixed the one
you had encountered?

If Microsoft released a patch to Internet Explorer that fixed four crash
bugs and a security hole, would you try to extract just the security
hole fix from the patched binary and apply only that change?

Seriously, this makes no sense. In Windows terms, you're not being told
to upgrade from XP to Vista to fix a bug, or even from XP SP1 to XP SP2.
You're being told to apply a targeted set of fixes - like you receive
from automatic updates - to fix known specific problems without changing
anything else unnecessarily.

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Craig Ringer