| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Recursive use of syscaches (was: relation ### modified while in use) |
| Date: | 2000-11-09 19:05:51 |
| Message-ID: | 200011091905.OAA08952@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Rather than trying to fix this stuff, I propose that we simply remove
> the test for recursive use of a syscache. AFAICS it will never catch
> any real bugs in production. It might catch bugs in development (ie,
> someone messes up the startup sequence in a way that causes a truly
> circular cache lookup) but I think a stack overflow crash is a
> perfectly OK result then.
Agreed.
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