Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at> writes:
>> I do not see the point of this in any case.
> I see you have read my proposal on -hackers in the meantime. Does
> that make it clearer?
Yes, but I still think the Assert is useless. The only thing it can
catch is failure to set t_hoff before touching the OID, but in practice
if t_hoff has not been set then it will be uninitialized garbage; the
odds that the Assert will actually fire are only about 1 in 10.
regards, tom lane