Re: Serious bug in order by - Wouter de Jong - com.mysql.lists.bugs

2 messages in com.mysql.lists.bugsRe: Serious bug in order by

From	Sent On	Attachments
Sasha Pachev	12 Mar 2001 18:32
Wouter de Jong	13 Mar 2001 00:18

Subject:	Re: Serious bug in order by
From:	Wouter de Jong (wou...@widexs.nl)
Date:	03/13/2001 12:18:26 AM
List:	com.mysql.lists.bugs

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:32:54PM -0700, Sasha Pachev wrote:

I have just been able to repeat a bug in a rather simple ORDER BY queries that was introduced in 3.23.34. I wonder how in the world our test suite managed to miss it. We should have a fix shortly and as soon as it is available, will post a patch and will also release 3.23.35. Which reminds us of a principle that should be ( will be soon) documented in the manual - do not upgrade a production system to the latest version until it has been out for a week - we try hard to test for everything, but sometimes we miss even some simple things. The recommended version as of this second is 3.23.33. Sorry, guys.

Admit, that if this _wasn't_ tested on a production machine (2.5 minutes of
downtime should be possible, since a kernel upgrade takes about the same time
[reboot + fsck]), the problem would have been 'hidden' for a while, since your
test suite didn't find it...