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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: pg_partition_tree crashes for a non-defined relation
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 14:07:29 -0500
Message-ID: <19520.1544382449@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181209185452.GF3415@tamriel.snowman.net>
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> ... especially in code that's highly unlikely to break once written.

> I don't entirely buy off on the argument that it's code that's 'highly
> unlikely to break once written' though- we do add new relkinds from time
> to time, for example.  Perhaps we could have these functions run just
> once per relkind.

Well, the relevant code is likely to be "if relkind is not x, y, or z,
then PG_RETURN_NULL".  If we add a new relkind and forget to consider the
function, the outcome is a NULL result that perhaps should not have been
NULL ... but a test like this won't help us notice that.

			regards, tom lane




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