Re: [HACKERS] Syntax errors in current tree

> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Not really a problem. Most patch problems are either my mucking with it
> > to merge it with other changes, or platform-specific problems that the
> > tester would never have see. For example, Win32 used EINTR without
> > including errno.h.
>
> And, by the same token, whoever does commit a patch might fail to notice
> a platform-specific problem that didn't happen to show up on his
> platform. You can't really expect things to be 100% tested before they
> hit the CVS tree (that's why we have a release cycle).
>
> My experience so far is that the Postgres CVS sources are pretty stable;
> most of the time they work, which can't be said for some other projects
> I'm involved in :-(. Not that we shouldn't strive to do even better,
> but an occasional breakage is going to happen.

Problem is that I rarely have a solid block of time to apply the
patches. (I used to.) It is done in pieces as I can get time during
the day. This makes for mistakes.

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