On 2014-05-05 13:24:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2013-10-10 02:43:20 +0000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Revive line type
>
> > That commit missed to update pg_type.h to the changed length of the line
> > type. Patch attached.
>
> Ouch. Good thing we caught this now.
Yea. The only thing we could have done later is to allocate more memory
and waste the space ondisk :(.
I am really hoping to get pg into a state where it's sufficiently
valgrind clean that we can run a buildfarm animal under valgrind. The
newest release of valgrind helps there - e.g. some float bugs have been
worked out.
> In principle, fixing this breaks pg_upgrade'ability for anyone who was
> using the line type before (presumably by compiling with
> -DENABLE_LINE_TYPE). However, we're breaking things for them anyway by
> changing the text representation, so that's probably not worth worrying
> over.
Agreed
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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