Re: pgsql: Check for GiST index tuples that don't fit on a page.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Check for GiST index tuples that don't fit on a page.
Date: 2014-10-04 14:10:09
Message-ID: 20141004141009.GK7043@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-committers

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 10/4/14 12:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> >> We don't have portable support for %zu formats until 9.4. The
> >> backpatches to 9.3 and earlier need to use %lu.
> > Good point --- and something that seems like it'll be an ongoing gotcha.
> > Have we got any buildfarm critters that could be configured to throw
> > errors about this?
> If this change had contained a test, it would have caught it.
>
> Alternatively, we'd need to catch compiler warnings on the build farm,
> but if the installation is too old to recognize %zu, who knows what else
> it'll warn (or not warn) about. Eventually, users of such systems tend
> point these things out, but that could take a while.

I compiled 9.0 yesterday and there are a lot of warnings with my current
compiler; something like -Werror is right out, I think. Maybe we can
save warnings separately and have the member turn yellow if there are
any, or something like that?

--
Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-committers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2014-10-04 18:19:08 pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2014h.
Previous Message Peter Eisentraut 2014-10-04 13:48:27 Re: pgsql: Check for GiST index tuples that don't fit on a page.