Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: make_restrictinfo() failed to attach the specified

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >I've never been a fan of "regression tests" in the narrow sense of
> >"let's test for this specific mistake we made once". If you can devise
> >a test that catches a class of errors including the one you actually
> >made, that's a different story, because it's much more likely to catch a
> >real future problem.
>
> Heh. See what I do is envision a future 10 years from now when the guy
> who truly understands the planner and executor (Tom) has long gone and
> the rest of us poor buggers keep on trying to change and fix things,
> thereby recreating all these 10 year old bugs :)

That's why someone else should be studying the planner and executor code
right now ... I've long wanted to start doing it but I've been always
distracted with other minutia ...

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