Re: cvs head initdb hangs on unixware
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: ohp@pyrenet.fr, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-12-10T17:29:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes: > ohp@pyrenet.fr wrote: >> Never saw a problem with gcc, hp-ux, darwin or M$? > Sure, that's not what I was saying. My point is, when there's a bug in > one version of a compiler, we shouldn't try to adapt PostgreSQL to that > bug. Instead, we should narrow down the bug, get it fixed in the > compiler, and tell users to use the most recent version of the compiler > where the bug has been fixed. We should certainly file a bug report against the compiler. However, ISTM a workaround is a good idea too if it's not too ugly (which this one isn't). If a bug exists in one compiler there might be similar bugs in other compilers. regards, tom lane