Re: [HACKERS] trouble with rules

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] trouble with rules
Date: 1999-02-08 16:34:20
Message-ID: 16943.918491660@sss.pgh.pa.us
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jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> I've only noticed while browsing through the code why he did
> comment out those things. He's comparing memoy addresses of
> nodes, what doesn't work any more after copyObject(). If he's
> not available right now, we must fix that part.

Is there more to do than using equal() instead of a plain pointer
compare?

There might be --- for example the collapsing-UNION problem I mentioned
yesterday is a case where using equal() allows an overly aggressive
optimization. Where are these comparisons and what are they for?

regards, tom lane

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