Re: Fix NULL pointer reference in _outPathTarget()

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fix NULL pointer reference in _outPathTarget()
Date: 2022-04-22 14:18:00
Message-ID: 3688649.1650637080@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On 20.04.22 18:53, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, that's another way to do it. I think though that the unresolved
>> question is whether or not we want the field name to appear in the output
>> when the field is null. I believe that I intentionally made it not appear
>> originally, so that that case could readily be distinguished. You could
>> argue that that would complicate life greatly for a _readPathTarget()
>> function, which is true, but I don't foresee that we'll need one.

> We could adapt the convention to print NULL values as "<>", like

Works for me.

regards, tom lane

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