Re: Postgresql 7.3.2 Crash

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: Adrian Pop <adrpo(at)ida(dot)liu(dot)se>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgresql 7.3.2 Crash
Date: 2003-03-27 15:22:01
Message-ID: 11670.1048778521@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> That's because the set default uses a pretty ugly hack. It plans the
> query with =NULL and then replaces the NULL with the default value's
> stored plan info. My first guess is that it's something with this that's
> causing the crash.

Yeah, it's failing to allow for the possible need to insert a type
coercion step. This code shouldn't be here at all, really --- it should
be using build_column_default instead of messing about with the
default expression directly. I can fix it, unless you want to...

regards, tom lane

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