Re: Bug in PostrgeSQL 8.0beta

> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> I've fixed it so that 8.0 will return the expressions comma-separated,
> which seems a reasonably sane behavior.

Thank you.


Alexander

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Alexander Zhiltsov" <ayz@ems.ru>
Cc: <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Bug in PostrgeSQL 8.0beta


> "Alexander Zhiltsov" <ayz@ems.ru> writes:
> > "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> I'm not convinced this is really a bug, because pg_index.indexprs is
not
> >> an expression (it's a list of expressions) and so it's not clear that
> >> pg_get_expr should be expected to work on it.  What result were you
> >> expecting to get?
>
> > Yes, probably it is not a bug, but only a difference in behavior of
function
> > pg_get_expr in versions 7.4 and 8.0.
> > Server 7.4 returns readable representation of index expressions that are
> > combined by 'AND'.
>
> Hmm, well that wasn't really the desired behavior either, since the index
> expressions certainly aren't combined as though by AND.
>
> I've fixed it so that 8.0 will return the expressions comma-separated,
> which seems a reasonably sane behavior.
>
> regards, tom lane