Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> writes:
>> What remains that we could do now, and perhaps back-patch, is point (2)
>> i.e. disallow digits as the first character of a pgbench variable name.
> I'm fine with that.
>> That would be enough to "solve" the original bug report, and it does seem
>> like it could be back-patched, while we're certainly not going to risk
>> back-patching anything as portability-fraught as introducing mutexes.
> Sure.
OK. I've pushed a patch that just does that much, and marked the
commitfest entry closed. After the other thing lands, please rebase
and resubmit what remains of this patch.
regards, tom lane