John LH wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply. I did some more detailed testing and found the
> following results ...
>
> 8.1.1 : On this it hangs
> 8.1.4 : On this version it throws this exception ...
>
> I am now thinking that this is a bug in the early builds of 8.1.x. This
> is sufficient for us, we will just upgrade and if anyone else has an
> issue with this specifically we will tell them to upgrade.
>
Checking the release notes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-1-5.html
I believe it is covered by this entry:
Fix mishandling of AFTER triggers when query contains a SQL function
returning multiple rows (Tom)
The difference between a hang and a crash seems to be whether the
backend was compiled with --enable-cassert.
