Re: Bizarre 7.3.2 bug

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bizarre 7.3.2 bug
Date: 2003-04-22 05:03:53
Message-ID: 371.1050987833@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
> --On Monday, April 21, 2003 21:43:54 -0700 Sean Chittenden
> <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> wrote:
>> Hrm, alright, well, with the coming of 7.3.3 soon-ish, and given that
>> RT and Horde are still broken (does anyone have any pull with that
>> crowd and the ability to submit patches?), I'll make sure to
>> conditionalize patch when the next version comes out, but I'm not
>> going to force admins to rebuild their DBs unless really necessary.

> RT's author hasn't released a release in a LONG time, and I don't have any
> pull.

> As to Horde, I don't have any insight. Sorry.

The obvious solution to this sort of problem would be to introduce a
GUC variable ("allow_zero_length_integers" or some such name). I do
not recall why we decided not to do that to begin with --- should we
reconsider, or is it too late to worry about it?

regards, tom lane

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