On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 2. The ANALYZE option is flat out dangerous, because it allows any
> function with the signature "f(internal) returns bool" to be called as
> though it's a typanalyze function. There are a couple of such functions
> in the catalogs already, and either of them will probably crash the
> backend if invoked as typanalyze on a range column.
It's always seemed mildly insane to me that we don't distinguish
between different flavors of "internal". That seems like an accident
waiting to happen.
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