A long-standing bug, perhaps dating back to April 2003, has been fixed. It was an optimization in a trigger: if the values in the trigger have not changed, let’s not run the trigger. Turns out, that was a bad idea. The table The ports_categories table documents the connections between a port and the categories in […]
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Following on from yesterdays Quarterly branches: what’s next? and Processing commits on branches with git, I’ve started in on clearing commits from cache. The code First step, create a table which looks like this: freshports.devgit=# \d cache_clearing_commits Table “public.cache_clearing_commits” Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default —————–+—————————–+———–+———-+——— commit_to_clear | text | | not
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I originally documented this so I would have a reference while tracking down the problem. I have since solved the issue and you can jump to the bottom of this post to find the solution. What I do not know is why this was not an issue under PostgreSQL 10.6 but was under PostgreSQL 11.1.
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