Re: Changed SRF in targetlist handling

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changed SRF in targetlist handling
Date: 2016-06-06 19:26:41
Message-ID: 30401.1465241201@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> ... I guess I'd prefer #2 to #2.5, #2.5 to #3, and #3 to #1.
> I really don't like #1 much - I think I'd almost rather do nothing.

FWIW, that's about my evaluation of the alternatives as well. I fear
that #1 would get a lot of pushback. If we think that something like
"LATERAL ROWS FROM STRICT" is worth having on its own merits, then
doing #2.5 seems worthwhile to me, but otherwise I'm just as happy
with #2. David J. seems to feel that throwing an error (as in #2.5)
rather than silently behaving incompatibly (as in #2) is important,
but I'm not convinced. In a green field I think we'd prefer #2 over
#2.5, so I'd rather go that direction.

regards, tom lane

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