Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>  Tom> Don't think that's going to work; the EPQ environment doesn't have
>  Tom> any way to know that an execPlan link is pointing to something in
>  Tom> a different estate.

> But can't such a way be created? e.g. by pointing execPlan to a special
> proxy node that points back to the original estate?

I don't really think the amount of complexity that would add is something
to consider for a back-patchable fix.

> Well, the case of UPDATE ... SET foo = case when x then (select thing
> from big_cte) else (select thing from other_big_cte) end will be rather
> annoying if we end up forcing both initplans to execute.

Given that this bug has been there since the late bronze age and just now
got detected, I think that optimizing the fix for especially improbable
cases ought not be the first thing on our minds.  Let's just get it to
work reliably.

                        regards, tom lane

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