Re: tsearch2 problem rank_cd() (possibly) crashing postgres

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Nonetheless, dumping core on bad input is not acceptable behavior ...
>
> > Is it time to require test cases for contrib modules?
>
> tsearch2 *has* a regression test. ATM it sounds like the problem is
> that the OP tried to use a new library with old pg_proc entries that
> defined different parameter sets for the same-named C functions; a
> situation that no regression test would have exercised anyway.

Hmmmm, is there a way that we could have library version requirements
for all C based functions? So if within PGLIB version 3 was present but
the function was calling version 2... It would politely fail with a
mismatched version warning?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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