Re: [HACKERS] BUG #14825: enum type: unsafe use?

On 09/27/2017 02:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> At this stage on reflection I agree it should be pulled :-(
> That seems to be the consensus, so I'll go make it happen.
>
>> I'm not happy about the idea of marking an input function as not
>> parallel safe, certainly not without a good deal of thought and
>> discussion that we don't have time for this cycle.
> I think the way forward is to do what we had as of HEAD (984c92074),
> but add the ability to transmit the blacklist table to parallel
> workers.  Since we expect the blacklist table would be empty most of
> the time, this should be close to no overhead in practice.  I concur
> that the idea of marking the relevant functions parallel-restricted is
> probably not as safe a fix as I originally thought, and it's not a
> very desirable restriction even if it did fix the problem.
>
> 			


Do you have any suggestion as to how we should transmit the blacklist to
parallel workers?

cheers

andrew

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