Thanks for adding it!

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 7:27 PM Chao Li <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Aug 31, 2026, at 18:08, Ewan Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the review!
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 4:38 PM Chao Li <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >>
> >>> On Aug 31, 2026, at 15:32, Ewan Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> The WHERE clauses inside a GRAPH_TABLE pattern -- both the element-level
> >>> one (MATCH (c IS customers WHERE ...)) and the graph-pattern-level one
> >>> (MATCH ... WHERE ...) -- are transformed with a bare transformExpr()
> >>> and never go through coerce_to_boolean().  So a WHERE clause of any
> >>> type is accepted, and its raw datum is used as the qual:
> >>>
> >>>   create table customers (id int primary key, name text);
> >>>   insert into customers values (1,'alice'),(2,null),(3,'carol');
> >>>   create property graph g
> >>>     vertex tables (customers key (id) label customer properties (id, 
> >>> name));
> >>>
> >>>   select * from graph_table (g match (c is customer where c.name)
> >>>                              columns (c.id));
> >>>    id
> >>>   ----
> >>>     1
> >>>     3
> >>>   (2 rows)
> >>>
> >>> EXPLAIN shows "Filter: name".  The never-null text pointer is always
> >>> taken as true, so the condition silently degenerates to roughly
> >>> "name IS NOT NULL": the NULL-name row disappears with no error.
> >>> Numeric quals are evaluated by bit pattern ("WHERE 1" is true,
> >>> "WHERE 0" is false), and even "WHERE row(1,2)" is accepted.  The same
> >>> clause outside GRAPH_TABLE gives the usual
> >>>
> >>>   ERROR:  argument of WHERE must be type boolean, not type text
> >>>
> >>> The attached patch routes both sites through transformWhereClause(),
> >>> like every other WHERE clause, and adds regression tests for the
> >>> element-level and pattern-level cases.  make check passes.  The code is
> >>> the same in REL_19_STABLE, so v19 is affected as well.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Ewan Young
> >>> <v1-0001-Coerce-GRAPH_TABLE-pattern-WHERE-clauses-to-boolean.patch>
> >>
> >> The patch looks good to me. As this is a v19 bug, it might be worth noting 
> >> in the Open Items list.
> >
> > Agreed -- I don't have wiki edit access though; could someone add it
> > under "Open Issues"?
> >
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> I just helped add the item.
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> Best regards,
> --
> Chao Li (Evan)
> HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
> https://www.highgo.com/
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Regards,
Ewan Young


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