Re: printf %s with NULL pointer (was Re: BUG #17098: Assert failed on composing an error message when adding a type to an extension being dropped)

On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 14:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Did you see my followup?  The vast majority of live systems do not do
> that, so we are accomplishing nothing of value by insisting it's a
> crash-worthy bug.
> 
> I flat out don't agree that "crash on debug builds but it's okay on
> production" is a useful way to define this.  I spend way too much
> time already on bug reports that only manifest with asserts enabled.

You convinced my that printing "(null)" is better than crashing.
Having a "(null)" show up in a weird place is certainly a minor inconvenience.

But I don't buy your second point: if it is like that, why do we have
Asserts at all?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe