Re: Lack of Sanity Checking in file 'pctcl.c' for PostgreSQL 9.4.x

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bill Parker <wp02855(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Lack of Sanity Checking in file 'pctcl.c' for PostgreSQL 9.4.x
Date: 2015-07-19 15:44:49
Message-ID: 20150719154449.GD2301@postgresql.org
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Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> > With some additional effort, we could get rid of perm_fmgr_info, at
> > least in pltcl. (That hack was introduced in a3ed622b63b and
> > 7748e9e7e5a back in 2001 and we never actually fixed it ...)
>
> Yes it seems so, even for plperl and plpython there seem to be some
> room for improvement at quick glance... This looks like a master-only
> change to me though (and I am sure we are on the same page). For
> back-branches something like the previous patch is definitely safer.

Yes, agreed on both counts. I will push the patch when I have a moment.

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