Re: strange IS NULL behaviour

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-09-07T05:42:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2013-09-06 23:07:04 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Sep  6, 2013 at 11:00:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > On Thu, Sep  5, 2013 at 05:06:41PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >> Another possible fix would be to avoid the IS NULL value optimizer
> > >> expansion if a ROW construct is inside a ROW().  I have attached a patch
> > >> that does this for review.
> > 
> > > Having received no replies, do people perfer this version of the patch
> > > that just punts nested ROW IS NULL testing to execQual.c?
> > 
> > For some reason I read your previous message as saying you were willing to
> > wait for considered reviews this time.  If not, I'll just write a blanket
> > -1 for any version of this patch.
> 
> Are you saying people will comment later?  I wasn't clear that was the
> plan.  I can certainly wait.

You do realize mere mortals in the project frequently have to wait
*months* to get comments on their patches? Not getting any for less than
48h doesn't seem to be saying much.

Why don't you add the proposal to the commitfest?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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