Re: BUG #16190: The usage of NULL pointer in refint.c

Hi,

On 2020-01-06 01:21:35 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> > ... There could be also an argument to just
> > remove the module per the lack of attention it is getting, though it
> > is still useful as an example of use for SPI, and the docs mention
> > it for that.
>
> The regression tests use refint too. Still, it's not production-grade
> code by any means, and I'm not sure if there's much point in making
> it so. I won't stand in the way if somebody else wants to ;-)

I think we should consider either moving this out of contrib, or fixing
it up. test/example code is fine, but contrib gets installed by default
for a lot of people... And yea, this isn't just about contrib/spi.

Greetings,

Andres Freund