Re: pg_archivecleanup bug

On 18 March 2014 18:01, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 04:17:53PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> > While I am not a fan of backpatching, the fact we are ignoring errors in
>> > some critical cases seems the non-cosmetic parts should be backpatched.
>>
>> pg_resetxlog was not an offender here; its coding was sound.
>>
>> We shouldn't be discussing backpatching a patch that contains changes
>> to coding style.
>
> I was going to remove the coding style changes to pg_resetxlog from the
> backpatched portion.

Why make style changes at all? A patch with no style changes would
mean backpatch and HEAD versions would be the same.

>> ISTM we should change the code with missing checks to adopt the coding
>> style of pg_resetxlog, not the other way around.
>>
>> I assume you or Kevin have this in hand and you don't want me to apply
>> the patch? (Since it was originally my bug)
>
> I know the email subject says pg_archivecleanup but the problem is all
> over our code.

Yes, understood.

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