From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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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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