Re: [GENERAL] CASE in where statement. BUG ??

From: Marek Lewczuk <newsy(at)lewczuk(dot)com>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: Alexander Litvinov <lan(at)ac-sw(dot)com>, Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] CASE in where statement. BUG ??
Date: 2003-12-19 09:59:43
Message-ID: 3FE2CC0F.2000707@lewczuk.com
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Richard Huxton wrote:
> On Friday 19 December 2003 09:02, Marek Lewczuk wrote:
>
> But until it's evaluated ''<>'' it doesn't know it is false. When building the
> CASE expression, it's trying to map types to each elements and notes that ''
> is not an int. Only after this stage will it actually try to evaluate the
> expression.
>

Well, I must say that it is wird action... Why to check both elements of
CASE expression, if we know for sure that only one will be executed ?

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