Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 305992E3C09 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:43:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18270-01-7 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:43:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247942E3CC4 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:34:11 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0OFY0ga010677; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:34:00 -0500 (EST) To: Simon Riggs cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Magic Blocks In-reply-to: <1201165162.4257.114.camel@ebony.site> References: <1201128199.4257.80.camel@ebony.site> <28284.1201134484@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1201165162.4257.114.camel@ebony.site> Comments: In-reply-to Simon Riggs message dated "Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:59:22 +0000" Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:34:00 -0500 Message-ID: <10676.1201188840@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200801/31 X-Sequence-Number: 4760 Simon Riggs writes: > It's a stupid mistake, but aren't most bugs, in hindsight? That's no > reason to leave it undocumented. No, but documentation bloat is. If this were the tenth report of the same mistake I'd be the first to agree that it was worth a paragraph. But we have only *one* report. Furthermore, there is no reason to think that the symptoms are consistent across platforms or PG versions, so I don't even know what the paragraph should say. regards, tom lane