Re: PostgreSQL crashes with Qmail-SQL

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Bear Giles <bear(at)coyotesong(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Michael Devogelaere <michael(at)digibel(dot)be>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL crashes with Qmail-SQL
Date: 2002-02-01 20:14:16
Message-ID: 20020201201416.GB7086@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:01:23AM -0700,
Bear Giles <bear(at)coyotesong(dot)com> wrote:
>
> (a), in contrast, is definitely not normal for qmail and is the type
> of thing that should be fixed... even if all it does after detecting
> a problem is return with a nonzero error code. :-)

This was probably caused by an error in the patch rather than the original
code.
Unless they have a very high rate of change for accounts, it seems that
it would have been better to not use the database directly for account
information. When stuff changed in the database, the cdb file could be
rebuilt using stock qmail tools.

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