Re: Problem reloading regression database

Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org> writes:
> gotcha.  No, I don't think anything inside that loop expects to 
> persist across iterations.  The attribute_buf is static to the
> file, and initialized in DoCopy.

There is more to attribute_buf than meets the eye ;-)

> What I ended up doing is switching to per-tuple-context prior to 
> the input loop, then switching back to the (saved) query-context
> after exiting the loop.  I followed ResetTupleExprContext back, and
> it doesn't seem to do anything that would require a switch per loop.
> Are there any problems this might cause that I'm not seeing  with 
> my test case?

I really don't feel comfortable with running heap_insert or the
subsequent operations in a per-tuple context.  Have you tried any
test cases that involve triggers or indexes?
        regards, tom lane