Re: [HACKERS] Current sources?

On Mon, 25 May 1998, David Gould wrote:

> Ok, I think I have found the source of the dropconns on "delete" querys
> that are causing the current problem. The change listed below sets
> tupType to the junkFilter (whatever that is) jf_cleanTupType unconditionally.
> This makes a SEGV later as the tupType ends up NULL.
>
> Here is what CVS says:
>     ---------------
>     revision 1.46
>     date: 1998/05/21 03:53:50;  author: scrappy;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -4
>
>     From: David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>
>
>     Here is a patch to remove the requirement that ORDER/GROUP BY clause
>     identifiers be included in the target list.
>     --------------
>
> I do not believe that this could ever have passed regression. Do we have
> the whole patch to back out, or do we need to just "fix what we have now"?

    fix what we have now...if its possible...

> Also, perhaps we need to be more selective about checkins?

    We're in an alpha/development phase here...my general opinion on
that is that I'd rather someone throw in code that is 95% good, with 5%
error, then nobody making a start anywhere...

    Until a Beta freeze, *never* expect the server to actually
work...if it does, bonus.


Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org