Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Yes, we already have guards for those cases, but they return fairly opaque
> > error messages to the tune of "set-valued function called in context that
> > cannot accept a set", because the executor hasn't enough context to do
> > better. I'd like the messages to be more specific, like "set-valued
> > function cannot appear within CASE" and so on.
>
> Here's an expanded version of the "bottom up" patch that adjusts some
> parser APIs to allow these additional messages to be thrown. This changes
> all occurrences of "set-valued function called in context that cannot
> accept a set" in the core regression tests into something more specific.
> There are probably some remaining cases that this doesn't cover, but the
> existing execution-time checks will still catch those.
Interesting stuff. Here's a small recommendation for a couple of those
new messages.
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*** a/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
--- b/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
***************
*** 1068,1074 **** transformAExprNullIf(ParseState *pstate, A_Expr *a)
if (result->opretset)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH),
! errmsg("NULLIF operator must not return a
set"),
parser_errposition(pstate, a->location)));
/*
--- 1068,1075 ----
if (result->opretset)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH),
! /* translator: %s is name of a SQL construct, eg NULLIF */
! errmsg("%s operator must not return a set",
"NULLIF"),
parser_errposition(pstate, a->location)));
/*
***************
*** 3041,3047 **** make_distinct_op(ParseState *pstate, List *opname, Node
*ltree, Node *rtree,
if (((OpExpr *) result)->opretset)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH),
! errmsg("IS DISTINCT FROM operator must not
return a set"),
parser_errposition(pstate, location)));
/*
--- 3042,3050 ----
if (((OpExpr *) result)->opretset)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH),
! /* translator: %s is name of a SQL construct, eg NULLIF */
! errmsg("%s operator must not return a set",
! "IS DISTINCT FROM"),
parser_errposition(pstate, location)));
/*
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