Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> There seem to be two ways we could look at this. One is that the
>> new test case just needs to be rejiggered to avoid unstable output
>> ("\set VERBOSITY terse" would be the easiest way). But there is
>> also room to argue that it's bad that plpgsql produces error reports
>> that vary depending on the phase of the moon, which is pretty much
>> what this would look like in the field --- cache flushes will occur
>> unpredictably in most application environments.
> I am inclined toward the latter view.
Yeah, me too. I'll see about patching exec_eval_simple_expr() to
provide a context line that matches SPI's. Seems like a HEAD-only
change though, as this will result in visible behavior change in
the typical case.
regards, tom lane
