Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes: > "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > Tom> BTW, the reason we need to store the column count explicitly is > Tom> that we have to ignore the added columns if a composite type has > Tom> had an ADD COLUMN done to it since the RTE was made. The > Tom> submitted patch fails rather nastily in such cases, if the > Tom> composite type isn't last in the function list.
> Am I understanding correctly that the only reason this didn't fail > before we added ORDINALITY is that the executor in general does not > care if there are more columns in a tuple than it expects? And that > adding ORDINALITY broke this already? Probably it's already broken with ORDINALITY, but I've not checked. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers