On 2/19/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > If you prepare "select *" and add a column, you're saying the query should
> > start failing?
>
> Either fail or change output; which you like better? The whole point of
> this exercise is to support plpgsql functions that do something like
>
> create temp table foo ...
> select * into rec from foo ...
> drop table foo ...
If that's the case, do you think there is a simpler way to handle this
problem than plan invalidation? Maybe I'm oversimplifying things a
bit here, but how about something like:
create local table foo ...
select * into rec from foo ...
this isn't completely unsurprising...we have 'SET LOCAL, etc.
merlin
