Re: Segmentation fault using digest from pg_crypto

Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 11/6/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > > > Tom, how about putting a note about that into next 8.2 minor
> > > > > release notes?  (8.3 too?)  Something like "You need to refresh
> > > > > pgcrypto functions, because since rel 8.2 the code depends
> > > > > on functions being tagged STRICT."
> > > >
> > > > Seems 8.2.5 was released without this release notes mention, but we
> > > > haven't gotten any complaints about it so perhaps we don't need to add
> > > > anything.
> > >
> > > Huh, I see exactly that complaint above.
> >
> > My point is that we can't mention it in the release notes until 8.2.6.
> > Will there still be people who are having an issue with it who haven't
> > found the problem already?  And if we put it in 8.2.6, it really was
> > effective for 8.2 so we just mention it in 8.2.6 and say it applies to
> > 8.2.X too?
> 
> We know that only few people have found the problem, because
> there is no way for them to guess what the fix should be
> by themselves, without consulting postgres lists.
> 
> And I suspect most of the people who have not found out about
> the bug would still like to fix it in their setup, as crashing
> database is not fun.  If only they knew about the problem...

OK, should we add a mention in the 8.2.6 release notes or put it in the
8. notes and figure if someone is upgrading they will read the 8.2
notes?  What would the description be?

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