On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:53:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> regression=# select 1
> ***********************************************************************************
> 2;
> server closed the connection unexpectedly
>
> with this in the log:
> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(keylen < 64)", File: "hashfunc.c", Line: 129)
>
> I believe that there would be no real ill effect in a non-assertion
> build, it would just say it couldn't find the operator. Too lazy to
> recompile that way to find out though.
Confirmed. The following is from REL8_0_STABLE built without assertions:
test=> select 1
***********************************************************************************
2;
ERROR: operator does not exist: integer
***********************************************************************************
integer
HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You may need to
add explicit type casts.
> I kinda think that truncation isn't a real sensible way to deal with
> overly long operator names anyway, and that throwing an ERROR would be
> more reasonable; if the scanner thinks it is looking at an 80-character
> operator name, you've probably messed up the syntax somewhere along the
> line. Comments?
An error sounds reasonable to me.
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