On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 01:06:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> writes:
>> It seems the variable can be initialized to the value of GUCNestLevel since
>> later in the func:
>> /* Roll back any GUC changes executed by index functions */
>> AtEOXact_GUC(false, save_nestlevel);
>
> That seems pretty inappropriate. If, thanks to some future thinko,
> control were able to reach the AtEOXact_GUC call despite not having
> called NewGUCNestLevel, we'd want that to fail.
+1
> It looks like
> AtEOXact_GUC asserts nestLevel > 0, so that either 0 or -1 would
> do as an "invalid" value; I'd lean a bit to using 0.
I only chose -1 to follow a117ceb's example in amcheck. I have no
preference.
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