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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Server crash (FailedAssertion) due to catcache refcount mis-handling
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:05:13 -0400
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>> In the meantime, I think my vote would be to remove AtEOXact_CatCache.

>>> In all supported branches?

>> Whatever we do about this issue, I don't feel a need to do it further
>> back than HEAD.  It's a non-problem except in an assert-enabled build,
>> and we don't recommend running those for production, only development.

> Sure, but people still do testing and development against older
> branches - bug fixes, for example.  It doesn't make much sense to me
> to leave code that we know does the wrong thing in the back branches.

Not having heard anyone arguing against that, I'll go make it so,
ie AtEOXact_CatCache is toast in all branches.

			regards, tom lane


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