Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Yes, we already have guards for those cases, but they return fairly opaque
> > error messages to the tune of "set-valued function called in context that
> > cannot accept a set", because the executor hasn't enough context to do
> > better. I'd like the messages to be more specific, like "set-valued
> > function cannot appear within CASE" and so on.
>
> Here's an expanded version of the "bottom up" patch that adjusts some
> parser APIs to allow these additional messages to be thrown. This changes
> all occurrences of "set-valued function called in context that cannot
> accept a set" in the core regression tests into something more specific.
> There are probably some remaining cases that this doesn't cover, but the
> existing execution-time checks will still catch those.
Interesting stuff. Here's a small recommendation for a couple of those
new messages.
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