Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1uz6PY-00Giua-TS for pgsql-bugs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:38:24 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1uz6PX-00DSNt-Dy for pgsql-bugs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:38:23 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1uz6PX-00DSNj-5E for pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:38:23 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([68.162.161.243]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1uz6PU-0011WO-39 for pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:38:22 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 58I4cJvf1840011; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:38:19 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: David Rowley cc: Amit Langote , feichanghong , pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: BUG #19056: ExecInitPartitionExecPruning segfault due to NULL es_part_prune_infos In-reply-to: References: <19056-a677cef9b54d76a0@postgresql.org> <1836971.1758168660@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to David Rowley message dated "Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:29:28 +1200" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1840009.1758170299.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:38:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1840010.1758170299@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk David Rowley writes: > ... I don't > think we need to put up signs anywhere that indicate mistakes once > existed here, especially for ones that existed in no released version > of PostgreSQL. I'm a bit bemused by that viewpoint. There's an enormous fraction of our test suite that is exactly memorializing bugs that once existed. Maybe there is some reason to distinguish bugs that never made it into an official release, but that seems rather weak to me. regards, tom lane