Re: NOT boolfield kills backend

> Hey Bruce! I've got some questions for the original topic, which was the
> failure of
>
>   select not b from t;
>
> where b is a boolean type in table t.
>
> It looks to me that the NOT_EXPR expression node is being constructed
> correctly in the parser, but somewhere between the parser and the
> executor (at ExecSeqScan()) it is being transformed into a deficient
> OP_EXPR expression node. Any hints on other places where this query tree
> might be getting transformed or manipulated? If I brute force substitute
> the expression type to be NOT_EXPR in ExecEvalExpr() then the query
> completes successfully:
>
> postgres=> select not b from t1;
> ?column?
> --------
> f
> t
> (2 rows)
>
> Hints are appreciated, or if this is touching on areas you are already
> familiar with I can send my debugging patches...

I would guess something in the optimizer.  Let me take a look at it.

Debugging patches, ah.  No gdb yet?

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