Hi,
> What's the expected result if the tuple from subselect is more than 1? Error, per SQL99 section 7.14: 1) If the cardinality of a <row subquery> is greater than 1 (one), then an exception condition is raised: cardinality violation.
I expect no update at all in case of void result set, is this the case ? No, you get nulls; it's a subquery not a join. Per SQL99 7.1: c) If the <row value constructor> is a <row subquery>, then: i) Let R be the result of the <row subquery> and let D be the degree of R. ii) If the cardinality of R is 0 (zero), then the result of the <row value constructor> is D null values. iii) If the cardinality of R is 1 (one), then the result of the <row value constructor> is R. regards, tom lane
To allow both of the above to hold, I think the subselect will have to be treated like a EXPR_SUBLINK subquery. I was wondering if we have a similar mechanism for plain selects/subselects to check and restrict their output to a single row. Regards, Nikhils -- EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com