Re: Potential ABI breakage in upcoming minor releases

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Potential ABI breakage in upcoming minor releases
Date: 2024-11-14 20:06:28
Message-ID: 1976470.1731614788@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> writes:
> Re: Noah Misch
>> The non-asserts build passed. The asserts build failed with "+WARNING:
>> problem in alloc set ExecutorState: detected write past chunk" throughout the
>> diffs, but there were no crashes. (Note that AGE "make installcheck" creates
>> a temporary installation, unlike PostgreSQL "make installcheck".) What might
>> differ in how you tested?

> The builds for sid (Debian unstable) are cassert-enabled and there the
> tests threw a lot of these errors.
> It didn't actually crash, true.

Ah. So perhaps this is a non-issue for production (non-assert)
builds? That would change the urgency materially, IMO.

regards, tom lane

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