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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ExecTypeSetColNames is fundamentally broken
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 15:30:28 -0500
Message-ID: <CA+TgmoaYDAqLLmxo_d9h2SZ1Mw28M9w5QZMuZcaL6D2JdG_B6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 1:46 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> So 0001 attached fixes this by revoking the decision to apply
> ExecTypeSetColNames in cases where a Var or RowExpr is declared
> to return a named composite type.  This causes a couple of regression
> test results to change, but they are ones that were specifically
> added to exercise this behavior that we now see to be invalid.

I don't understand the code so I can't comment on the code, but I find
the regression test changes pretty suspect. Attaching any alias list
to the RTE ought to rename the output columns for all purposes, not
just the ones we as implementers find convenient. I understand that we
have to do *something* here and that the present behavior is buggy and
unacceptable ... but I'm not sure I accept that the only possible fix
is the one you propose here.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com





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