Dean Rasheed <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 at 15:46, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We could just drop the Asserts and thereby return to the previous
>> behavior.  But perhaps your proposal is better.  Dean, any thoughts?

> I think just dropping the Asserts is the better solution, because
> showing "Output: n.a" in the EXPLAIN output is likely to lead to
> confusion, since there was no relation with alias "n" in the
> triggering query, and "n" isn't mentioned anywhere else in the EXPLAIN
> output. The user would have to lookup the rule definition to figure
> out what "n" means.

Good point.  I'll make it so.

                        regards, tom lane


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