Re: pg_lzcompress patch for 8.3, 8.2 branch
Zdenek Kotala <[email protected]>
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Tom Lane napsal(a): > Zdenek Kotala <[email protected]> writes: >> Tom Lane napsal(a): >>> On the other hand, I remain unconvinced that this problem is severe >>> enough to justify much backporting work. AFAIK we've only seen one >>> occurence of a problem to date. > >> I know about two occurrence. One was reported on -bug >> (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-04/msg00206.php) >> and second was reported from our customer. > > I'm still not impressed. Bear in mind that the patch you are so eager > to backport has received *zero* field testing, which means there's a > non-negligible risk that there's something wrong with it. Our customers uses the patch (version 8.2) on 2TB heavy loaded table which contains text field with average size ~10kB. He have used it for two months without any problem. I think it is good field testing. It helped him to fix corrupted data problems without any random crash or downtime. > Add on the > non-negligible risk of messing up something associated with back-porting > the earlier patch, and consider that back-branch minor releases go out > with no field testing to speak of (there's the build farm but that's > about it). You have to seriously question whether the risk is worth > what is surely an extremely marginal stability improvement. I don't need it to backport to 8.1 and older. Yeah, It was my eager activity. I'm happy with 8.3 and 8.2 backport. thanks Zdenek -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches