Re: Problems with your patch (Sorry).

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: stuart(at)NOJUNK_ludwig(dot)ucl(dot)ac(dot)uk (Stuart Rison)
Cc: wieck(at)sapserv(dot)debis(dot)de, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org (PostgreSQL-development)
Subject: Re: Problems with your patch (Sorry).
Date: 1998-07-13 18:59:33
Message-ID: 199807131859.OAA21463@candle.pha.pa.us
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> I now no longer get the badNode error message but the query does not work:
>
> >testing=> create table test (
> >testing-> number int2,
> >testing-> in_words text
> >testing-> );
> >CREATE
> >testing=> insert into test values (1,'one');
> >INSERT 147786 1
> >testing=> insert into test values (2,'two');
> >INSERT 147787 1
> >testing=> insert into test values (3,'three');
> >INSERT 147788 1
> >testing=> insert into test values (4,'four');
> >INSERT 147789 1
> >testing=> select * from test;
> >number|in_words
> >------+--------
> > 1|one
> > 2|two
> > 3|three
> > 4|four
> >(4 rows)
> >
> >testing=> create view on_test as select *,number * number as "Number
> >Squared" >from test;
> >CREATE
> >testing=> select * from on_test;
> >number|in_words|Number Squared
> >------+--------+--------------
> > | |
> >(1 row)
> >
> >testing=> select *,number * number as "Number Squared" from pants;

This user already runs a patched 6.3.2 for the AS fix above.

> >number|in_words|Number Squared
> >------+--------+--------------
> > 1|one | 1
> > 2|two | 4
> > 3|three | 9
> > 4|four | 16
> >(4 rows)
>
> Is this a patch thing (i.e. I applied incorrectly) or did the patch not
> work for me?
>
> Best regards,

I think you did it right. Looks like we have a problem with views:

test=> create view xxyz as select usesysid * usesysid from pg_shadow;
CREATE
test=> select * from xxyz;
?column?
--------

(1 row)

I will add to TODO list. The view/rewrite system is being overhauled by
Jan, hopefully for 6.4.

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