Re: 7.0.2 dies when connection dropped mid-transaction

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.0.2 dies when connection dropped mid-transaction
Date: 2000-11-10 03:01:17
Message-ID: 20001109190117.M11449@fw.wintelcom.net
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* Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> [001109 18:55] wrote:
> > I guess the immediate question is do we want to hold up 7.0.3 release
> > for a fix? This bug is clearly ancient, so I'm not sure it's
> > appropriate to go through a fire drill to fix it for 7.0.3.
> > Comments?
>
> We have delayed 7.0.3 already. Tom is fixing so many bugs, we may find
> at some point that Tom never stops fixing bugs long enough for us to do
> a release. I say let's push 7.0.3 out. We can always do 7.0.4 later if
> we wish.

I think being able to crash the backend by just dropping a connection
during a pretty trivial query is a bad thing and it'd be more
prudent to wait. I have no problem syncing with your guys CVS,
but people using redhat RPMS and FreeBSD Packages are going to wind
up with this bug if you cut the release before squashing it. :(

--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]

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