Re: Internal error codes triggered by regression tests and user queries, take 2

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Internal error codes triggered by regression tests and user queries, take 2
Date: 2026-11-01 17:09:37
Message-ID: 369161.1793552977@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2026-11-01 17:13:26 +0500, Kirill Reshke wrote:
>> Filtering my report with this rule, I think we need to take care of 4-7, 11, 13

> We're quite busy, being flooded with bug reports and ginormous patches. Why
> are we trying to find even more work by searching for inconsequential stuff
> like this? I really don't get it. Like, you wrote a fuzzer to search for
> these. WHY?

The reason was mentioned at the top of the thread: some people monitor
their logs for XX000 errors. I agree that we can't afford to spend
a lot of effort on this, but fixing easily-reached cases seems like a
reasonable thing to do, IMO.

regards, tom lane

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