Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] BUG #1962: ECPG and VARCHAR

First, let me thank you for the effort you have been putting into the
Postgresql development. It is a great system. It performs well and with
the exception of a few little annoyances is a great competitor to Mysql
or Oracle!

This particular bug isn't a show stopper; I could have easily found a
way around it if I wanted to. Instead I decided to fall back to 8.0.3
since this will be fixed hopefully in 8.0.5.  But it did make me think
of something else.

I would like to make a suggestion, if you don't mind. I don't mind
running the bleeding edge of things, and if you go to the gentoo bugs
you will see quite a few posted by me. My suggestion - and it might be
simply due to my not knowing where to look - is perhaps there should be
a simple way to find the bugs that are still outstanding or when they
resolved or how. On bugs.gentoo.org I can type in CUPS for example and
find out everything - resolved, past and present and outstanding, bugs
related to cups. I can find nothing on the postgresql site.

FWIW,
Chuck Wegrzyn

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Michael Paesold wrote:
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>>Is this a regression in the stable branches? If so, shouldn't we do a new 
>>release rather immediately? What do others think about this situation?
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>>Can you remember regressions in stable branches in the past? How were those 
>>it handled? I think "waiting for months" (i.e. for the next major bug fixes) 
>>is not the correct answer here. IMHO, the latest released version should be 
>>known best in all components.
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>Yea, it is a regression, and yea, we hate when that happens.  Let's see
>how many people have a problem with it and we can review if we need a
>minor release to fix it.
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>>Best Regards,
>>Michael Paesold
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>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>Michael Fuhr wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:49:20AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
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>>>>>ecpg in 8.0.4 seems not to like the macros.  I get the same error,
>>>>>but not if I do this:
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>>>>>    VARCHAR  t[256];
>>>>>    VARCHAR  o[256];
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>>>>>ecpg in 8.1beta3 works either way.
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>>>>This appears to be the guilty commit, which was made to 7.4, 8.0,
>>>>and HEAD (8.1):
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>>>>http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-08/msg00266.php
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>>>>It was recently fixed in HEAD only:
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>>>>http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-10/msg00043.php
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>>>Good catch!  I have backpatched these fixes to the 8.0 and 7.4 branches
>>>as you suggested, (identical) patches attached.
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>>>The big problem is that we might not make releases on these branches for
>>>months, so anyone needing the fix should download CVS for those
>>>branches.
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