Re: support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 hosts

I am just guessing what people will think about the patch.  If people
want it is a good idea, I can apply it.

The patch basically takes:

    sort +1 -0 and changes it to

and makes it:

    sort +1 -0 || sort -k 1,0

or something like that.


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Dominic J. Eidson wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > > From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
> > > > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:05:17 -0500 (EST)
> > > >
> > > > This is an interesting patch, but have not heard anyone else have this
> > > > problem
> > >
> > > That's not surprising, since I am purposely running a bleeding-edge
> > > system to test PostgreSQL portability.  Nobody is shipping POSIX
> > > 1003.1-2001 systems yet (the standard was only approved in December by
> > > the IEEE, and it will not be an official ISO standard for a few more
> > > weeks yet).  But when they do, you will run into this problem.
> > >
> > >
> > > > and am hesitant to add more cost to fix something that may not be
> > > > broken.  Sorry.
>
> Apparently it _is_ broken - Paul wouldn't be submitting a patch if it
> wasn't. Duh.
>
> > > There is no cost to PostgreSQL in normal operation, since that part of
> > > the source isn't affected at all.  All that is affected is some of the
> > > test scripts and documentation.  I see little risk to incorporating
> > > the patch, but of course it's your decision.
> >
> > We are kind of picky about adding complexity when it isn't required.
>
> s/isn't/isn't yet
>               ^^^
> So you'd prefer to just wait 'till POSIX 1003.1-2001 systems ship?
>
> <sarcasm>
> Paul, I guess you should set up an at(1) job to resubmit the patch in a
> couple-3 years, or something...
> </sarcasm>
>
>
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> Dominic J. Eidson
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