Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
