Re: [HACKERS] Syntax errors in current tree

> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Not really a problem.  Most patch problems are either my mucking with it
> > to merge it with other changes, or platform-specific problems that the
> > tester would never have see.  For example, Win32 used EINTR without
> > including errno.h.
> 
> And, by the same token, whoever does commit a patch might fail to notice
> a platform-specific problem that didn't happen to show up on his
> platform.  You can't really expect things to be 100% tested before they
> hit the CVS tree (that's why we have a release cycle).
> 
> My experience so far is that the Postgres CVS sources are pretty stable;
> most of the time they work, which can't be said for some other projects
> I'm involved in :-(.  Not that we shouldn't strive to do even better,
> but an occasional breakage is going to happen.

Problem is that I rarely have a solid block of time to apply the
patches.  (I used to.)  It is done in pieces as I can get time during
the day.  This makes for mistakes.

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