Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Tom> Hmm. Maybe it'd be better if the default behavior in
> Tom> expression_tree_walker/mutator did not include recursing into the
> Tom> args, then?
> You'd think, but as I recall (I will re-check this to confirm) there
> were more places where we _did_ need to recurse (especially during parse
> analysis before we've matched up the sortgrouprefs), while most of the
> places where recursion needed to be explicitly avoided already needed
> special-case handling, so having the default the other way would likely
> have required a special-case almost everywhere.
Fair enough. This is the kind of design choice that can be worth
revisiting later; but if the conclusion is still the same, fine with me.
regards, tom lane
