I wrote: > Great --- launching cvs rtag command now. Done, and I got a plausible-looking mix of messages like cvs rtag: Not removing branch tag `REL7_4_STABLE' from `/cvsroot/pgsql/src/tutorial/funcs_new.c,v'. and a fresh checkout of REL7_4_STABLE now matches what I had locally. So I think we walked away from that one.
TODO items: * restrict, or at least log, cvs tag/rtag commands. Maybe report them to pgsql-committers. * I notice that the repository contains some files owned by no-longer-existent accounts, eg 258 in contrib/btree_gist: > ls -la total 460 drwxrwxr-x 6 scrappy dev 1024 Aug 15 03:00 . drwxrwxr-x 90 scrappy dev 2048 Aug 15 03:00 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 scrappy dev 512 Apr 20 15:16 Attic -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 9555 Jun 26 22:05 Makefile,v -r--r--r-- 1 258 dev 5870 Apr 20 16:19 README.btree_gist,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 12033 Aug 15 03:00 btree_bit.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 9902 Aug 15 03:00 btree_bytea.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 10227 Aug 15 03:00 btree_cash.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 11414 Aug 15 03:00 btree_date.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 10211 Aug 15 03:00 btree_float4.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 10074 Aug 15 03:00 btree_float8.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 33915 Aug 15 03:00 btree_gist.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 258 dev 4325 Apr 20 15:16 btree_gist.h,v -r--r--r-- 1 258 dev 58744 Apr 20 16:19 btree_gist.sql.in,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 14717 Aug 15 03:00 btree_inet.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 10234 Aug 15 03:00 btree_int2.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 10221 Aug 15 03:00 btree_int4.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 tgl dev 10235 Aug 15 03:00 btree_int8.c,v I suppose this is due to Magnus' cleanup of unused committers accounts. That was a good thing, but for security's sake these files ought to be chown'd to some existing committer's account. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster