[postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 RC1 vote

[Paul Ramsey]

And 210 isn't longstanding, it's a result of my swapping the
aggregates over to using the side memory context instead of
aggregating in the accum function's memory context (and associated
massive memcpy'ing).

P.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Mark
Cave-Ayland<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Paragon Corporation wrote:
>
>> I really think the 212 can wait.  Its something that isn't even
>> documented.
>> That can really wait till 1.4.1.  Remember we have a 1.4.1 and this would
>> be
>> a bug fix so can fit nicely in there.
>
> So you're saying that even though we now claim to support compound curves
> within curved polygons, we should put a release that can't even store and
> retrieve one of these geometries?! I'm not asking for us to 100% proof check
> everything for 1.4.0, but as a bare minimum we must be able to support
> storage and retrieval of the basic geometry.
>
>> I feel kind of the same about 210 (since I'm pretty sure we've had this
>> problem for a really long time -- it might have been a change in
>> PostgreSQL
>> or something else that makes this more apparent thought).  Though 210 is
>> more of a serious issue since it does cause crashes under unpredicatable
>> circumstances especially in 64-bit.
>
> Both of these of errors are caused by bad memory accesses (I know, because I
> spent a lot of time fixing these in 1.3.6 as a result of the torture test
> results). Just because the bad access doesn't manage to crash on your
> particular platform/architecture on that particular attempt, doesn't mean it
> will be harmless on another combination of platform/architecture or won't
> fail at random points later within a longer transaction.
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
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