Louis-David Mitterrand <cunctator@apartia.ch> writes:
> Issuing the followin SELECT crashes PG 7.0:
> auction=# SELECT a.id,a.title,a.id,(select CASE WHEN a.stopdate < 'now' THEN 'closed' ELSE 'open' end) as
status,to_char(a.time,'DD-MMHH24:MI'),b.price FROM auction* a, bid b WHERE a.id = b.auctionid AND b.login = 'mito2';
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
> !# \q
> Apparently PG doesn't like the (SELECT CASE ... ) statement, until I
> added it everything went well.
The crash certainly is a bug, but you could get around it for now
by not using an unnecessary sub-SELECT. Why not just...,a.id,(CASE WHEN ...
regards, tom lane
