On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:27:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > And I will say once more that a patch that affects only the behavior of > > eval_const_expressions can be rejected on its face. That code has to be > > kept in sync with the behavior of execQual.c, not just whacked around by > > itself. And then there are the NOT NULL constraint cases to worry about. > > Hmm ... actually, it's already not in sync, because: > > regression=# create table tt (x int); > CREATE TABLE > regression=# insert into tt values(null); > INSERT 0 1 > regression=# select row(x) from tt; > row > ----- > () > (1 row) > > regression=# select row(row(x)) from tt; > row > -------- > ("()") > (1 row) > > regression=# select row(row(row(x))) from tt; > row > -------------- > ("(""()"")") > (1 row)
Uh, I see the same output you show for a NULL constant: SELECT ROW(NULL); row ----- () SELECT ROW(ROW(NULL)); row -------- ("()") SELECT ROW(ROW(ROW(NULL))); row -------------- ("(""()"")") -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers