On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 8:51 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > The PG wire protocol specification [1] defines these fields thus: > > If the field can be identified as a column of a specific > table, the object ID of the table; otherwise zero. > > If the field can be identified as a column of a specific > table, the attribute number of the column; otherwise zero. > > My reading of that is that we should populate these fields only for > the case of direct selection from a table. > s/can be identified as/is/g ? Experience shows people are inferring a lot from "can be identified" so we should remove it. "is" maybe over-simplifies a bit but in the correct direction. David J.
