"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
> On 2/5/23 3:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Fair. I was trying to avoid committing to specific consequences.
>> The assertion failure seen in the original report (#17702) wouldn't
>> occur for typical users, but they might see crashes or "unexpected node
>> type" failures. Maybe we can say that instead.
> I did a quick readthrough of #17702. Your proposal sounds reasonable.
> Based on that explanation and reading #17702, I'm still not sure if this
> will make the cut in the release announcement itself, but +1 for
> modifying it in the release notes.
The notes now say
<para>
Prevent clobbering of cached parsetrees for utility statements in
SQL functions (Tom Lane, Daniel Gustafsson)
</para>
<para>
If a SQL-language function executes the same utility command more
than once within a single calling query, it could crash or report
strange errors such as <quote>unrecognized node type</quote>.
</para>
regards, tom lane
