Re: Make CREATE AGGREGATE check validity of initcond value?

From: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Make CREATE AGGREGATE check validity of initcond value?
Date: 2012-10-04 16:48:42
Message-ID: CAJKUy5gbLH=zeFpAxcrNNDq05LgfqU92A-cgd5fLY756pO6p3Q@mail.gmail.com
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El 03/10/2012 21:38, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> escribió:
>
> Does anyone have an objection to this? I can imagine cases where the
> check would reject values that would get accepted at runtime, if the
> type's input function was sensitive to the phase of the moon or
> something. But it doesn't seem very probable, whereas checking the
> value seems like an eminently useful thing to do. Or maybe I'm just
> overreacting to the report --- I can't recall any previous complaints
> like this, so maybe entering a bogus initcond is a corner case too.

I guess a wrong initcond value, probably is a pilot error.
So, my first reaction is +1 to make it an error.

But if you feel there a corner cases maybe at least a warning

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Jaime Casanova
2ndQuadrant: Your PostgreSQL partner

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