On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:50, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > I'd like to see something done about this fairly soon, but it's not > > > happening for 7.3 ... > > > > Hang on, you seem to be suggesting we release a major new upgrade, with > > major new functionality, knowing it contains a way to trivially crash > > the backend. > > > > Err.. hang on. What happened to our reputation for quality and > > releasing "when it's ready"? > > > > Since when were we Microsoft-ized? > > I personally agree with Justin that it should be fixed for 7.3 (just imagine > all those people selling colo postgres services). There should be a 7.2.2 > as well that fixes the date parser problem.
Has anyone actually considered the time required to make the appropriate fix (clean up use of OPAQUE)? I don't think this bug is worthy of pushing the 7.3 release out a few weeks. The simple fix is to drop the money type entirely as it serves few purposes -- but there are some who use it. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
