On 2014-02-04 02:10:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> writes: > > In the function where it is used, it seems to me that it is setting > > DateStyle > > as ISO if it is not ISO and function configure_remote_session() will set it > > to ISO initially. So basically even if the value of DateStyle is junk, it > > will > > just do what we wanted i.e setting it to ISO. Does the failure is due to > > reason > > that it is not expecting DateStyle to be ISO and due to junk value of this > > parameter it sets the same to ISO. > > Meh. It might be that the DateStyle usage in postgres_fdw would > accidentally fail to malfunction if it saw a bogus value of the variable. > But it's hard to believe that this would be true of MainLWLockArray.
There's not that much lwlock usage in contrib. It's just pg_stat_statements and pg_buffercache. Neither has tests... So it very well could be that breakage simply hasn't been observed. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers