Hi,
On 2017-05-28 14:03:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think it would be possible to teach eval_const_expressions that
> it must not discard CASE/COALESCE subexpressions that contain SRFs,
> which would preserve the rule that expression simplification doesn't
> change the query semantics.
That sounds like a good idea. Do you want to write up a patch, or
should I? I can, but I'd want to finish the walsender panic and other
signal handling stuff first (mostly waiting for review for now).
> Another possibility is to say that we've broken this situation
> irretrievably and we should start throwing errors for SRFs in
> places where they'd be conditionally evaluated. That's not real
> nice perhaps, but it's better than the way things are right now.
I'd be ok with that too, but I don't really see a strong need so far.
Greetings,
Andres Freund