On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> You could offer that paragraph as an objection to almost all Assert(), elog(),
> and automated tests. Why levy it against this patch? The valuable ways
> assertions and tests supplement review are well-established.
Sure, that's true, but I don't view all situations in the same way, so
I don't write the same thing in answer to each one. I think I've
pretty much said what I have to say about this; if nothing I wrote up
until now swayed you, it's unlikely that anything else I say after
this point will either.
>> You may be right, but then again Tom had a different opinion, even
>> after seeing your patch, and he's no dummy.
>
> Eh? Tom last posted to this thread before I first posted a patch.
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/29758.1451780533@sss.pgh.pa.us
seems to me to be a vote against the concept embodied by the patch.
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