Re: [PATCH] unified frontend support for pg_malloc et al and palloc/pfree mulation (was xlogreader-v4)

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-01-11 16:28:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm not very satisfied with that answer.  Right now, Peter's
>> patch has added a class of bugs that never existed before 9.3, and yours
>> would add more.  It might well be that those classes are empty ... but
>> *we can't know that*.  I don't think that keeping a new optimization for
>> non-gcc compilers is worth that risk.  Postgres is already full of
>> gcc-only optimizations, anyway.

> ISTM that ereport() already has so strange behaviour wrt evaluation of
> arguments (i.e doing it only when the message is really logged) that its
> doesn't seem to add a real additional risk.

Hm ... well, that's a point.  I may be putting too much weight on the
fact that any such bug for elevel would be a new one that never existed
before.  What do others think?
        regards, tom lane