Re: Outer joins and Seq scans

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le lundi 29 octobre 2007, Tom Lane a écrit :
>> Is there any chance you can apply the one-line
>> patch shown here:
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-10/msg00374.php
>>
>> If rebuilding packages is not to your taste, possibly a down-rev to
>> 8.2.4 would be the easiest solution.
>
> The debian package for PostgreSQL uses a .tar.gz of the upstream code along
> with a debian/patches/ directory with ordered patches files
> (##-whatever.patch). Just adding the given file into this directory before to
> building the package should do.

[snip detailed example]

It never occurred to me that you could do that. Thanks Dmitri, I learn
something here all the time.

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