Re: A wrong comment about search_indexed_tlist_for_var
Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
From: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-12-04T08:42:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Attachments
- v1-0001-Fix-comment-about-cross-checking-the-varnullingrels.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v1-0001
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 2:27 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > > On 2023-Dec-01, Richard Guo wrote: > >> However, this cross-check will also be performed in non-debug builds > >> ever since commit 867be9c07, which converts this check from Asserts to > >> test-and-elog. The commit message there also says: > >> Committed separately with the idea that eventually we'll revert > >> this. It might be awhile though. > >> I wonder if now is the time to revert it, since there have been no > >> related bugs reported for quite a while. > > > I don't know anything about this, but maybe it would be better to let > > these elogs there for longer, so that users have time to upgrade and > > test. > > Yeah. It's good that we've not had field reports against 16.0 or 16.1, > but we can't really expect that 16.x has seen widespread adoption yet. > I do think we should revert this eventually, but I'd wait perhaps > another year. Then here is a trivial patch to adjust the comment, which should get reverted along with 867be9c07. Thanks Richard
Commits
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Fix comment about cross-checking the varnullingrels
- 3cb19f45a3f5 17.0 landed
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Convert nullingrels match checks from Asserts to test-and-elog.
- 867be9c0738b 16.0 cited