On 11/08/2014 04:19 PM, Ross Reedstrom wrote:
> I've no opinion on the not respecting aliases aspect of this, but both
> the hstore and json emtpy keys case breaks the format: it's duplicate keys
> that collapse to a single value, and expected keynames are missing.
>
> The insidious bit about this bug though is that it works fine during testing
> with the developers typically small data sets. It's only triggered in my case
> when we the plan switches to index-only. Even an index scan works fine. I can't
> imagine that there is code out there that _depends_ on this behavior. Just as
> likely to me are that there exist systems that just have "can't reproduce" bugs
> that would be fixed by this.
>
>
No, I can't imagine it either - it's utterly broken. That's the piece
that Tom is proposing to fix on the back branches. AIUI.
cheers
andrew
