Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)trust(dot)ee>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Priorities for 6.6
Date: 1999-06-06 02:19:29
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.19990605191929.00dd4e84@mail.pacifier.com
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At 11:51 PM 6/5/99 +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:

>It is not a genuine bug (as it only slows thong down instead of
>getting wrong results), but still a misfeature.

Well, it depends on how one defines "bug", I suppose :) In the
strictest sense you're correct, yet for real world use, particularly
in environments with high traffic, it's a killer.

>It is most likely an ancient quickfix for some execution path that
>failed to set the dirty mark when it should have.

Yep, I remember this from the earlier conversation, too.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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