On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> It's not at all apparent that the code is even
> safe as-is, because it's depending on the unstated assumption that that
> static variable will get reset once per dictionary. The documentation
> is horrible: it doesn't really explain what the patch is doing, and what
> it does say is wrong.
Yep. We certainly would need to convince ourselves that this is correct before applying it, and that is all kinds of
non-obvious.
...Robert