* Adam Guthrie (asguth...@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 24 February 2016 at 20:27, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, looks like a bug to me.  My gut reaction is that we're pulling up
> > a subquery in a way that isn't possible and that plan shouldn't be
> > getting built/considered.
> 
> Thanks - shall I go ahead and submit a bug report?

Sure.

> > As a work-around, until we fix it, you could create an sql function to
> > check for the existance of the id in 'a' and use that in the policy
> > definition.
> 
> I've also discovered that using the following policy instead
> 
> CREATE POLICY a_select ON b FOR SELECT
>     USING ( a_id IN (SELECT id FROM a) );
> 
> also seems to work around the issue.

Yes, that also works, but it could get painful if 'a' gets large.  An
SQL function like:

select exists (select * from a where a.id = $1);

Would still use an indexed lookup against 'a'.

Thanks!

Stephen

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