Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:30:38PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> OK, we need a decision on whether we are going to do a 7.2,3 or just > >> have it in beta3. If it is in 7.2.3, I would not mention it in the > >> beta3 release notes. > > > If there won't be any 7.2.3, > > There will be; I will backport the fixes today, and Marc promised to > roll the tarball tonight. > > One thing I am undecided about: I am more than half tempted to put in > the fix that makes us able to cope with mktime's broken-before-1970 > behavior in recent glibc versions (e.g., Red Hat 7.3). This seems like > a good idea considering that other Linux distros will surely be updating > glibc soon too. On the other hand, it's hard to call it a critical bug > fix --- it ain't on a par with the vacuum/clog problem, for sure. And > the patch has received only limited testing (basically just whatever > use 7.3beta1 has had). On the third hand, the patch only does something > if mktime() has already failed, so it's hard to see how it could make > life worse even if it's buggy. > > Any votes on whether to fix that or leave it alone in 7.2.3? I need > some input in the next few hours ...
I think it should be put in. You work for Red Hat, and that's the least we can do for them. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
