Re: row literal problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: row literal problem
Date: 2012-07-20 17:13:21
Message-ID: 26635.1342804401@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Here's a draft patch for that. It wasn't quite as ugly as I feared.
>> A lot of the apparent bulk of the patch is because I chose to split
>> ExecEvalVar into separate functions for the scalar and whole-row
>> cases, which seemed appropriate because they now get different
>> ExprState node types.

> Thanks for that! Applying the patch and confirming the fix turned up
> no issues. I did a perfunctory review and it all looks pretty good:
> maybe ExecInitExpr could use a comment describing the
> InvalidAttrNumber check though...it's somewhat common knowledge that
> InvalidAttrNumber means row variables but it's also used to initialize
> variables before loops scans and things like that.

Thanks for testing. I added the suggested comment and made some other
cosmetic improvements, and have committed this.

regards, tom lane

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