Re: removal of dangling temp tables

I wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> I looked at
>> https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling/blob/master/pg_wait_sampling.c
>> https://github.com/citusdata/citus/search?q=pgproc&unscoped_q=pgproc
>> and skimmed a few others can't find any instance where the full struct
>> is used, as opposed to just a pointer to it.

> No, the point Michael is making is that the array stride in the ProcArray
> is part of our ABI.  For example, accessing a PGPROC from its pgprocno
> using the GetPGProcByNumber macro will be broken if we change the
> struct size.  I do not think you can assume that no extension does that.

In fact, there's a counterexample right here in pg_wait_sampling:

https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling/blob/master/pg_wait_sampling.c#L343

            regards, tom lane