On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>>> +1 for whatever the committer wants to commit. ;)
>
>> OK, done. :-)
>
> Uh, did you actually stop to *think* about this patch?
You have a valid point here, but this isn't the most tactful way of putting it.
> What you have just committed puts a syscache lookup into the elog output
> path. Quite aside from the likely performance hit, this will
> malfunction badly in any case where we're trying to log from an aborted
> transaction.
>
> Please revert and rethink.
I think it's going to take more than a rethink - I don't see any way
to salvage it. :-(
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