| From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | "Alexander Scholz" <alexander(dot)scholz1(at)freenet(dot)de>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Problem in Pg 8.1.4 with CREATEDB |
| Date: | 2006-06-01 15:36:25 |
| Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0F9D0@algol.sollentuna.se |
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> > I don't think anyone ever imagined that the bug actually allowed
> > people to use utilities in a way that was useful to them, but
> > unintended by everyone else. Had we done, we would
> certainly have made
> > the warnings more obvious and considered workarounds.
>
> Actually, we thought that this had all been resolved years
> ago when we made the Unix versions work like that; fixing the
> Windows code to behave like the Unix versions seemed minor.
Yeah...
> What I find surprising is that it seems a substantial
> community of apps is already in existence that have never
> been run with anything but Windows Postgres.
Doesn't surprise me one bit, really.
Also, remember that we're talking win32 *client*, which has been around
a long time. psql, for example, has built on win32 since 6.something
IIRC. So you could very well have client apps and such that used that
behaviour running against a Unix PostgreSQL.
//Magnus
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