Re: (ITS#5227) old dsn acceptance

[hyc@symas.com]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> hyc@symas.com wrote:
> 
>> It seems a bit odd to be introducing support for that format now in 2.4, when
>> it was completely unsupported in 2.2 and 2.3. I.e., why wasn't this issue
>> raised during the migration to/thru either 2.2 or 2.3?
> 
> Probably because until 2.4
> 
>  #define csnValidate                                blobValidate
> 
> and as such any incompatible CSN was silently ignored.  So this has
> always been broken, only 2.4 detects the inconsistency, but behaved
> badly (assert) until your fix.

Ah, ok. So, do you think we need to integrate this patch?

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