| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter(dot)Brant(at)wicourts(dot)gov |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Question on win32 semaphore simulation |
| Date: | 2006-05-11 02:08:13 |
| Message-ID: | 200605110208.k4B28DS04908@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> Well we did have a bug report by Peter Brant, and a test by him with the
> >> patch that fixes it, so it seems it should be applied. The URLs I
> >> posted had that information.
>
> > Correction. It only goes into 8.0.X and 8.1.X. CVS HEAD has a
> > rewritten file.
>
> That seems a bit scary --- patching stable branches with a patch that
> will get zero testing in HEAD? I think some more testing besides
> Peter's would be smart first. What if the patch behaves differently
> on different versions of Windows, for instance?
We can wait for someone else to report the problem. I think it only
happened on Win2003 SP1.
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