Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replacement for OSSP-UUID for Linux and BSD
Date: 2014-05-29 12:38:12
Message-ID: 53872A34.1050809@dunslane.net
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On 05/29/2014 08:21 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-05-29 08:14:48 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 5/27/14, 10:37 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> If you don't like this change, we can revert it and also revert the upgrade to 2.69.
>> Nobody else appears to be concerned, but I would have preferred this option.
> I am pretty concerned actually. But I don't see downgrading to an
> earlier autoconf as something really helpful. There already was a huge
> portability problem with the current code. Avoiding the autoconf update
> for a while wouldn't have solved it. And in 5 years time the amount of
> portability problems will be much larger.
> Yes, it'd have been nice if this were done a month+ ago. But nobody
> stepped up :(. Seems like the least bad choice :/
>

The most worrying thing is that we didn't find the occasioning problem
when we switched to autoconf 2.69 back in December, so we end up dealing
with bad choices now.

cheers

andrew

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