Thank you for the detailed response, much appreciated. I may have done something else or had database corruption on a test box b/c when i changed in the basic mysql client, that occured. Though i'm not going to stand behind that as an absolute b/c that test machine has already been destroyed.
Best, Jeff On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 6:06 AM Sergei Golubchik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Jeff! > > On Jun 12, Jeff Dyke wrote: > > Out of curiosity, why doesn't this release get pulled from > > repositories. I understand all of the rationale behind no tests until > > the bug hits(and agree with it), i've been using mysql since 4.06, or > > 3.x i believe. I've never seen a "use [database]" case a segfault. I > > realize information_schema is special as is performance_schema. This > > is just a question, not a judgement. > > Sometimes we do pull releases. > Or we can do an urgent out-of-schedule release. > Or both. > > Depends on when the bug was introduced and when it was discovered, how > serious it is (https://mariadb.org/about/security-policy/), how many > users are affected, etc. > > If a regression affects lots of users and is discovered within hours > after the release (it happened, may be, only once in 10 years), then we > pull the release from repositories. To reduce the number of users who > would be affected by it. > > The first email in this thread came almost a month after 10.3.15 > release. At that point it's too late to pull a release - the majority of > 10.3.16 users has already installed it. Also it shows that the bug does > not affect that many users, otherwise we would've got reports about it > much earlier. > > So, we're doing an out-of-schedule release to fix this embarassing > regression, but not pulling the old release. > > Btw, use information_schema; on itself does not cause a segfault, we use > this statement many times in the test suite. > > Regards, > Sergei > Chief Architect MariaDB > and [email protected] >
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