On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> There are a lot of them, for sure.
It's *very* common for switch statements to have a "can't happen"
elog(ERROR) as their default block. Many of these default blocks also
initialize related variables to placate the compiler.
> I'd be a bit worried about
> creating a back-patching mine-field. But maybe these are all
> in spots we're unlikely to touch?
That seems like much less of a problem for a purely subtractive change
such as this.
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Peter Geoghegan