Bradley McLean <brad(at)bradm(dot)net> writes:
> 1) All of the conversion functions that return NULL ( line 1463 as
> an example, page up and down from there) will cause the backend to terminate
> abnormally. I'm not sure if this is considered a correct behavior,
> or if elog(ERROR, ...) is a better approach. Comments?
Backend coredump is never a correct behavior. I'd recommend elog ...
regards, tom lane