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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Recursive use of syscaches (was: relation ### modified while in use)
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Msg-id 200011091905.OAA08952@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Recursive use of syscaches (was: relation ### modified while in use)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Rather than trying to fix this stuff, I propose that we simply remove
> the test for recursive use of a syscache.  AFAICS it will never catch
> any real bugs in production.  It might catch bugs in development (ie,
> someone messes up the startup sequence in a way that causes a truly
> circular cache lookup) but I think a stack overflow crash is a
> perfectly OK result then.

Agreed.


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