Re: [HACKERS] Bug fix for 7.4?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Bug fix for 7.4?
Date: 2003-11-10 03:18:11
Message-ID: 200311100318.hAA3IBq29123@candle.pha.pa.us
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Well, the good news is that it seems to only hit the array code, and if
arrays are broken, the patch can't seem to make things worse. If it
causes new ecpg array problems, we will just have to fix it in 7.4.1.

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Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:16:53PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Yep. Send patch to patches list and/or have someone who is using this
> > functionality test it.
>
> Okay, see attachment.
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > I just fixed a bug in ecpglib that caused it to misbehave for all
> > > internal array/vector types. They were treated like the external ones.
> > > So ecpg expected them to be listed as '{...}' which surely failed.
> > >
> > > However, this bug fix involves more code changes than I like to just
> > > commit into 7.4 at this point of the release. So the fixes are so far
> > > just committed to HEAD. On the other hand I don't like to release 7.4
> > > with this know bug.
>
> Michael
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