Re: odd behavior/possible bug

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: odd behavior/possible bug
Date: 2003-07-24 21:13:33
Message-ID: 19356.1059081213@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> We could probably hack the inlining logic to prevent it from inlining
>> the function in this scenario, but I wonder whether this doesn't say
>> that ExecEvalArray is behaving inconsistently. In other operations, any
>> NULL in means NULL out. Shouldn't it simply quietly return a NULL array
>> if one of the supplied elements is NULL?

> That probably makes good sense, at least until we can deal with NULL
> elements. Would that patch count as a bug fix?

Either one would count as a bug fix IMHO. Anyone else have an opinion
on which to do?

regards, tom lane

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