Re: pgsql: Fix planning of SubLinks to ensure that - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: pgsql: Fix planning of SubLinks to ensure that
Date
Msg-id 63990.65.211.31.251.1165494312.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
Whole thread Raw
In response to pgsql: Fix planning of SubLinks to ensure that Vars generated from  (tgl@postgresql.org (Tom Lane))
Responses Re: pgsql: Fix planning of SubLinks to ensure that  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-committers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Fix planning of SubLinks to ensure that Vars generated from transformation
> of
> a sublink's test expression have the correct vartypmod, rather than
> defaulting
> to -1.  There's at least one place where this is important because we're
> expecting these Vars to be exactly equal() to those appearing in the
> subplan
> itself.  This is a pretty klugy solution --- it would likely be cleaner to
> change Param nodes to include a typmod field --- but we can't do that in
> the
> already-released 8.2 branch.
> Per bug report from Hubert Fongarnand.
>


I'm slightly confused by this commit message. Is this commit on HEAD a
temporary measure pending a cleaner fix, or is it the intended permanent
fix, notwithstanding the kludginess?

cheers

andrew


pgsql-committers by date:

Previous
From: "Simon Riggs"
Date:
Subject: Re: pgsql: Back out mention of port success fromFAQs, per Tom, added by
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: pgsql: Fix planning of SubLinks to ensure that