Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié nov 23 11:01:50 -0300 2011: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > 2. The ANALYZE option is flat out dangerous, because it allows any > > function with the signature "f(internal) returns bool" to be called as > > though it's a typanalyze function. There are a couple of such functions > > in the catalogs already, and either of them will probably crash the > > backend if invoked as typanalyze on a range column. > > It's always seemed mildly insane to me that we don't distinguish > between different flavors of "internal". That seems like an accident > waiting to happen.
Well, before we had INTERNAL, there was only OPAQUE which conflated even more things that we now distinguish (at least trigger and cstring, not sure if there were others). -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
