Re: WIP: extensible enums

On 10/17/2010 10:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  writes:
>> On 10/17/2010 05:30 AM, Dean Rasheed wrote:
>>> I just thought of another corner case, which can lead to a crash. The
>>> comparison code assumes that the number of elements in the enumeration
>>> is constant during a query, but that's not necessarily the case.
>>> ...
>>> Of course that's a pathalogical example, but we should protect against
>>> it, preferrably without compromising performance in more normal cases.
>> Yeah, good point. But how do we manage that?
> Why is it crashing?  I can see that this sort of thing might lead to
> nonsensical answers, but a crash is harder to understand.
>
>             regards, tom "haven't read the patch" lane

Heh.

I've been deep in buildfarm work, but I'll look at this now to see what 
I can find.

cheers

andrew