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Old 04-15-2008, 10:42 PM
Tom Lane
 
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Default Re: Oops - BF:Mastodon just died

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> For now I'm going try to fix it by changing it to:
>>> next unless $pieces[0] =~/^[A-F0-9]{3}$/;


> Yeah, nice catch. Wouldn't surprise me if we actually had this problem
> before, just that the dropped symbols were not actually used by our own
> modules. I notice the export count jumped to 5226...


I was wondering where the count would go.

It strikes me that the pattern needs to be {3,} or maybe just +.
I dunno what this column is measuring, but if we are past 0xA00
then surely 0x1000 is not far away.

regards, tom lane

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