Re: Accidentally parallel unsafe functions

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> wrote:
> I am currently looking into adding the correct parallel options to all
> functions in the extensions and I noticed that some built-in functions seems
> to have been marked as unsafe by accident. The main culprit is
> system_views.sql which redefines these functions and removes the parallel
> safe flag.
>
> I think this counts as a 9.6 bug unlike my work on adding the flags to all
> extensions which is for 9.7.
>
> I have attached a patch which marks them and all conversion functions as
> parallel safe. I also added the flag to ts_debug() when I was already
> editing system_views.sql, feel free to ignore that one if you like.
>
> Affected functions:
>
> - json_populate_record()
> - json_populate_recordset()
> - jsonb_insert()
> - jsonb_set()
> - make_interval()
> - parse_ident()
> - Loads of conversion functions

Committed all of this except for the bit about pg_start_backup, for
which I committed a separate fix.

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