Re: [GENERAL] postgres patch for autovacuum error in postgres

2010-09-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 09/10/2010 04:38 AM, tamanna madaan wrote: > >> Due to some reason I don’t want to upgrade to postgres-8.1.6. > > Why? Seriously? > Also note that it's possible this user has found a new unfixed bug in the 8.1 branch. If he goes to 8.1.21

Re: [GENERAL] postgres patch for autovacuum error in postgres

2010-09-09 Thread Craig Ringer
If Oracle announced that they were releasing a patch for six critical data-loss bugs in 9i, one of which affected you, would you call support and ask them to make a custom patch just for you that only fixed the one you had encountered? Oh, and when they say they can't guarantee that fix will w

Re: [GENERAL] postgres patch for autovacuum error in postgres

2010-09-09 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/10/2010 04:38 AM, tamanna madaan wrote: Due to some reason I don’t want to upgrade to postgres-8.1.6. Why? Seriously? If Oracle announced that they were releasing a patch for six critical data-loss bugs in 9i, one of which affected you, would you call support and ask them to make a cu

Re: [GENERAL] postgres patch for autovacuum error in postgres

2010-09-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:38 PM, tamanna madaan wrote: > Hi All > > I am using postgres-8.1.2 . I am getting the below error while autovacuuming > template0 database : > > > Due to some reason I don’t want to upgrade to  postgres-8.1.6. There are very very very few good reasons to not want to upDA

Re: [GENERAL] postgres patch for autovacuum error in postgres

2010-09-09 Thread Arjen Nienhuis
Maybe you can download the latest version of postgres 8.1 and change the version number in the source to 8.1.2 and then compile. Would that solve your problem? On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:38 PM, tamanna madaan wrote: > Hi All > > > > I am using postgres-8.1.2 . I am getting the below error while au