Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes: > I can't see how refusing to free memory owned and controlled by someone else, > and throwing an error if attempted, wouldn't be a sound defensive programming > measure.
I think the argument is about what "refusal" looks like.
An Assert seems OK to me, but anything based on elog is
likely to be problematic, because it'll involve exit()
somewhere.
regards, tom lane
