Re: [PATCH] bugfix for int2vectorin

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Caleb Welton <cwelton(at)greenplum(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bugfix for int2vectorin
Date: 2009-12-02 03:52:32
Message-ID: 603c8f070912011952m33f67a7dm29a62944fc275396@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Caleb Welton <cwelton(at)greenplum(dot)com> writes:
>> I believe the int2vectorin function should handle invalid input more cleanly.
>
> Why bother?  Under what circumstances would users (or anyone at all)
> be putting data into an int2vector?  It's an internal type and is
> certainly not meant for use in user tables.

Maybe it's just me, but this seems like an unnecessarily dismissive
response to a report of some rather odd-looking behavior.

...Robert

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