Re: Typo in bufmgr.c that result in waste of memory

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Takashi Horikawa <t-horikawa(at)aj(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>,PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Typo in bufmgr.c that result in waste of memory
Date: 2016-02-19 13:50:09
Message-ID: 8F8A17F1-861C-4613-8D6F-D511BF1E3527@anarazel.de
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Hi,

Nice catch!

On February 19, 2016 2:42:08 PM GMT+01:00, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think we should fix it, but not backpatch.
>
>I don't think that's particularly good policy. It's a clear bug, why
>would we not fix it? Leaving it as-is in the back branches can have
>no good effect, and what it does do is create a merge hazard for other
>back-patchable bug fixes in the same area.

Agreed. Unless somebody beats be to it, I'll do do so in a couple hours (11h flight now.

Andres

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