Commit fdc79e19 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Fix executor/README to reflect disallowing SRFs in UPDATE.

The parenthetical comment here is obsoleted by commit a4c35ea1.
Noted by Andres Freund.
parent a4c35ea1
......@@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ the entire row value in the join output row.
We disallow set-returning functions in the targetlist of SELECT FOR UPDATE,
so as to ensure that at most one tuple can be returned for any particular
set of scan tuples. Otherwise we'd get duplicates due to the original
query returning the same set of scan tuples multiple times. (Note: there
is no explicit prohibition on SRFs in UPDATE, but the net effect will be
that only the first result row of an SRF counts, because all subsequent
rows will result in attempts to re-update an already updated target row.
This is historical behavior and seems not worth changing.)
query returning the same set of scan tuples multiple times. Likewise,
SRFs are disallowed in an UPDATE's targetlist. There, they would have the
effect of the same row being updated multiple times, which is not very
useful --- and updates after the first would have no effect anyway.
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