Hi, On 2024-12-03 13:37:48 +0300, Anton A. Melnikov wrote: > Found a place in the code of this patch that is unclear to me: > https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/1acf10549e64c6a52ced570d712fcba1a2f5d1ec/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat.c#L1658 > > Owing assert() the next if() should never be performed, but the comment above > says the opposite. > Is this assert really needed here? And if so, for what?
It's code that should be unreachable. But in case it is encountered in a production scenario, it's not worth taking down the server for it. Greetings, Andres Freund