On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurj...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2015 9:56 PM, "Michael Paquier" <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> If the node has no WAL receiver active, a tuple with NULL values is > >> returned instead. > > > > IMO, in the absence of a WAL receiver the SRF (and the view) should not > > return any rows. > > The whole point is to not use a SRF in this case: there is always at > most one WAL receiver. > The function, maybe. But emitting an all-nulls row from a view seems counter-intuitive, at least when looking at it in context of relational database. -- Gurjeet Singh http://gurjeet.singh.im/