Re: Increase value of OUTER_VAR

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrey Lepikhov <a(dot)lepikhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Increase value of OUTER_VAR
Date: 2021-03-03 15:06:03
Message-ID: 1180484.1614783963@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Also, I got reminded of this discussion from not so long ago:

> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/16302-e45634e2c0e34e97%40postgresql.org

Yeah. Nobody seems to have pursued Peter's idea of changing the magic
values to small negative ones, but that seems like a nicer idea than
arguing over what large positive value is large enough.

(Having said that, I remain pretty dubious that we're anywhere near
getting any real-world use out of such a change.)

regards, tom lane

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