On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that's just making life difficult. If nothing else, sqlsmith
> hunts around for functions it can call that return internal errors,
> and if we refuse to fix all of them to return user-facing errors, then
> it's just crap for the people running sqlsmith to sift through and
> it's a judgment call whether to fix each particular case. Even aside
> from that, I think it's much better to have a clear and unambiguous
> rule that elog is only for can't-happen things, not
> we-don't-recommend-it things.
+1.
This also has value in the context of automatically surfacing
situations where "can't happen" errors do in fact happen at scale.
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Peter Geoghegan
