Re: [HACKERS] Case statement ready?

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Jan Wieck <jwieck(at)debis(dot)com>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, vadim(at)krs(dot)ru
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Case statement ready?
Date: 1998-12-05 06:03:22
Message-ID: 3668CCAA.C5B41E32@alumni.caltech.edu
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> It's feature and thus must NOT be committed to the RELEASE
> tree. But if you send me the patches, I could add it to the
> v6.4.1 feature patch which I'll put into the patches
> directory on the ftp server after v6.4.1 is out.

I'm thinking that it will lead to nothing but trouble. How about waiting
for v6.5?

> > If anyone has a chance to look at the new code wrt the rewriter
> Did it add new node types? If not, the rewrite system might
> already be happy with it. Anyway - I'll take a look at it and
> check/extend/fix for the rewrite corner.

Yes, it added new node types (CaseExpr and CaseWhen), and I added a few
lines to rewriteHandler.c to pretty much ignore them. Not sure if that
was the right thing to do.

- Tom

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