[rt-users] RTFM permission issue

[Rick Rezinas]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Patrick Hurley wrote:

> Are you using postgres?
mysql  Ver 12.21 Distrib 4.0.14, for sun-solaris2.8 (sparc)

Do you happen to know the ticket number that you opened?  I looked in
the bug list but my eyes crossed and didn't see anything.

thanks
rick

> 
> I have this problem with RT 3.0.8 and RTFM 2.0.2 using postgres -- "No
> permission to view Article" occurring anytime anybody attempts to create
> an article, either through extracting or directly creating a new
> article.
> 
> Through apache/postgres logs, it looks like it has to do with RTFM not
> being completely nice with postgres 7.3 or later.  Several int's in RTFM
> are initialized as '' by default, and pg_atoi doesn't like that anymore.
> Thus, the pg_atoi zero-length string errors cause failures.  These need
> to be initialized as 0.  
> 
> I opened a new ticket on the issue in Best Practical's RT, but if you
> are able to track down where these changes need to occur before they get
> to it, I'm sure we'd all be overjoyed.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 

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