On 12/17/2013 03:57 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
I agree with others that this patch is not suitable for back-patching. I wonder whether some other solution might be worth back-patching, since it is clearly a bug. The "never delete internal pages" might be safe enough to consider. It would lead to some degree of bloat, but perhaps bloat is better than errors. Of course, the argument can certainly be made that people hit the bug so rarely that we're better off just leaving it alone in stable branches. Anyway, that would be a different patch.
I don't think "never delete internal pages" would be acceptable. In particular, it would bloat indefinitely for a smallish FIFO queue table with a timestamp column.
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