On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 15:47, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Anyway, this saves about 3KB in fmgrtab.o, without any downside
> that I can see.  If someone accidentally called an aggregate as
> a normal function, they'd now get a different error message,
> namely "internal function "aggregate_dummy" is not in internal lookup
> table" instead of "aggregate function NNN called as normal function".
> That doesn't really seem like a problem.
>

Speaking as somebody who sometimes does really dumb things, I don’t like
this change in error message. The current message clearly identifies the
problem; the new message makes it look like there is a bug in Postgres.

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