Re: [HACKERS] eval_const_expresisions and ScalarArrayOpExpr

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
>> On 05/11/2017 06:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Yeah, I think it's a lack-of-round-tuits situation.  Your patch reminds
>>> me of a more ambitious attempt I made awhile back to reduce the amount
>>> of duplicative boilerplate in eval_const_expressions.  I think I wrote
>>> it during last year's beta period, stashed it because I didn't feel like
>>> arguing for applying it right then, and then forgot about it.
>
>> Hmph, now we're almost in beta period again. :-(.
>
> Actually, I now remember that I wrote that while at Salesforce (because
> they'd run into the problem that constant ArrayRef expressions weren't
> simplified).  So that means it's been languishing in a git branch for
> *two* years.  I'm kind of inclined to push it before it gets forgotten
> again ;-)

You will probably not be surprised to hear that I think this is a
feature and thus subject to the feature freeze currently in effect.

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