On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> Dan Ports <drkp@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> I am surprised to see that error message without SSI's hint about
>> increasing max_predicate_locks_per_xact.
>
> After reviewing this, I think something along the following lines
> might be needed, for a start. I'm not sure the Asserts are actually
> needed; they basically are checking that the current behavior of
> hash_search doesn't change.
>
> I'm still looking at whether it's sane to try to issue a warning
> when an HTAB exceeds the number of entries declared as its max_size
> when it was created.
I don't see much advantage in changing these to asserts - in a debug
build, that will promote ERROR to PANIC; whereas in a production
build, they'll cause a random failure somewhere downstream.
The HASH_ENTER to HASH_ENTER_NULL changes look like they might be
needed, though.
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