From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Fix pg_ctl restart bug |
Date: | 2008-06-27 01:54:46 |
Message-ID: | 200806270154.m5R1skj15358@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> I've always assumed that I'm supposed to backpatch the bugs I fix in
> >> HEAD, however far is reasonable.
>
> > I thought we only backatched major bugs to prevent possible instability
> > when fixing minor bugs.
>
> Actually, Bruce, this *is* a minor bug; if it were major we'd have heard
> about it from the field.
>
> My take on it is that "pg_ctl restart" must be practically unused.
> Given that we now know it's completely broken, the only way that
> patching it could make the situation worse would be if the patch
> affected some other code path that people actually do use. As
> long as you're sure it doesn't do that, I see no downside to an
> attempted fix, even if it fails.
OK, done; backpatched from 8.0.X to 8.3.X.
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