Re: pre-MED - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pre-MED
Date
Msg-id 20081103130224.GC4509@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: pre-MED  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: pre-MED  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Re: pre-MED  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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David Fetter wrote:

> However, there are little lacunæ like this:
> 
> SELECT * FROM show_qual() s(a)
> WHERE A NOT IN (
>     SELECT 'foo' UNION ALL SELECT 'bar'
> );
> a
> ------------------------
> (NOT (hashed subplan))

This little lacuna seems to say that if you pass the wrong query to
dblink, it will fail to work, possibly with a very obscure error
message; it will be very difficult to debug, and also very difficult (if
not impossible) to workaround.

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