On 08/28/2016 04:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> I'm however pretty sure this will have absolutely no impact on profiles.
>
> Yeah, I do not believe that either. Also, I think that the intent of the
> existing code is to defend against bad parameters even in non-assert
> builds. Which might argue for turning these into test-and-elog rather
> than asserts.
>
I agree. There's a fair number of contrib modules, and when they compile
just fine people are unlikely to test them with assert-enabled builds.
So they would not notice any issues, but it'd get broken as we've
removed the code that fixes the values for them.
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