On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> Would you prefer it if the spill-to-disk case
> aborted in the style of low entropy keys? That doesn't seem
> significantly safer than this, and it certainly not acceptable from a
> performance perspective.
BTW, I can write that patch if that's your preference. Should I?
I just don't favor that even as a short term correctness fix, because
it seems unacceptable to throw away all the strxfrm() work where
that's a very predictable and even likely outcome. I suggest reviewing
and committing my fix as a short term fix, that may well turn out to
be generally acceptable upon further consideration. Yes, we'll need to
make a point of reviewing an already committed patch, but there is a
precedent for that.
--
Peter Geoghegan
