The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>> Ah ... it seems that someone has changed the behavior of assert checking
>> to default to OFF, with no public notice or discussion. I think this is
>> an extremely ill-considered change --- I will restore the old default
>> behavior forthwith.
> Huh? I thought Assert checking was always off by default until
> --enable-cassert was set at configure time ... ?
Right. But Peter added a run-time "debug_assertions" SET variable,
which is cool except he made it default to OFF. So --enable-cassert
wasn't enough to get assert checking anymore :-(. I changed the SET
variable to default to ON.
regards, tom lane