On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The proposed patch contains no test case and no description of how to >> reproduce the problem. I am not very keen on the idea of trying to >> puzzle that out from first principles. > > I thought that the bug was simple enough that it didn't require a > testcase. Besides, as I've often complained about there are no tests > of external sorting in the regression test suite whatsoever. I don't > think you'd just accept it now if I tried to add some. > > I could give you steps to reproduce the bug, but they involve creating > a large table using my gensort tool [1]. It isn't trivial. Are you > interested?
The bug can't very well be so simple that you need not include a set of steps to reproduce it and, at the same time, so complex that even so much as reading the list of steps to reproduce it might be more than I want to do. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
