Re: BUG #18877: PostgreSQL triggers assertion failure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: luy70(at)psu(dot)edu, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #18877: PostgreSQL triggers assertion failure
Date: 2025-04-05 15:12:59
Message-ID: 2461845.1743865979@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> On 2025-Apr-05, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So what we should be doing is building a parse-analysis result
>> that deparses into something that looks like the input; probably,
>> a JsonArrayQueryConstructor node with an analyzed EXPR_SUBLINK
>> SubLink below it. Then we can make this tlist-length check against
>> the analyzed SubLink, removing the problem of premature errors that
>> are not spelled the way we want.

> Sounds reasonable, I can try to find better coding for this, but it
> won't be soon. I won't be sad if somebody else wants to do it, so if
> you feel like it, please be my guest.

Yeah, it's not high priority for me either. Maybe someone else
will be interested in the project.

>> Anyway, that idea is far too invasive to be back-patchable,
>> and IMO it's too late to consider even getting it into v18.
>> So what I'm thinking is we should just apply the copyObject
>> hack for now, and resolve to reconsider this code later.

> Sounds reasonable.

OK, I'll get that done.

regards, tom lane

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