Tom,
> There's an abbreviated version of this argument in the comments in
> my proposed patch at
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/11927.1384199294@sss.pgh.pa.us
> What I'm hoping will happen next is that the complainants will hot-patch
> that and see if it fixes their problems. We can't really determine
> what to do without that information.
Unfortunately, the original reporter of this issue will not be available
for testing for 2-3 weeks, and I haven't been able to devise a synthetic
test which clearly shows the issue.
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Josh Berkus
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