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2008-01-11The original implementation of polymorphic aggregates didn't really get theTom Lane
checking of argument compatibility right; although the problem is only exposed with multiple-input aggregates in which some arguments are polymorphic and some are not. Per bug #3852 from Sokolov Yura.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-11-26Fix select_common_type() so that it can select a domain type, if all inputsTom Lane
to a UNION, CASE, or related construct are of the same domain type. The main part of this routine smashes domains to their base types, which seems necessary because the logic involves TypeCategory() and IsPreferredType(), neither of which work usefully on domains. However, we can add a first pass that just detects whether all the inputs are exactly the same type, and if so accept that without question (so long as it's not UNKNOWN). Per recent gripe from Dean Rasheed. In passing, remove some tests for InvalidOid, which have clearly been dead code for quite some time now, because getBaseType() would fail on that input. Also, clarify the manual's not-very-precise description of the existing algorithm's behavior.
2007-11-15pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-06Make eval_const_expressions() preserve typmod when simplifying something likeTom Lane
null::char(3) to a simple Const node. (It already worked for non-null values, but not when we skipped evaluation of a strict coercion function.) This prevents loss of typmod knowledge in situations such as exhibited in bug #3598. Unfortunately there seems no good way to fix that bug in 8.1 and 8.2, because they simply don't carry a typmod for a plain Const node. In passing I made all the other callers of makeNullConst supply "real" typmod values too, though I think it probably doesn't matter anywhere else.
2007-08-21Tsearch2 functionality migrates to core. The bulk of this work is byTom Lane
Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, but I did a lot of editorializing, so anything that's broken is probably my fault. Documentation is nonexistent as yet, but let's land the patch so we can get some portability testing done.
2007-06-06Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable cases thatTom Lane
were accepted by prior Postgres releases. This takes care of the loose end left by the preceding patch to downgrade implicit casts-to-text. To avoid breaking desirable behavior for array concatenation, introduce a new polymorphic pseudo-type "anynonarray" --- the added concatenation operators are actually text || anynonarray and anynonarray || text.
2007-06-05Downgrade implicit casts to text to be assignment-only, except for the onesTom Lane
from the other string-category types; this eliminates a lot of surprising interpretations that the parser could formerly make when there was no directly applicable operator. Create a general mechanism that supports casts to and from the standard string types (text,varchar,bpchar) for *every* datatype, by invoking the datatype's I/O functions. These new casts are assignment-only in the to-string direction, explicit-only in the other, and therefore should create no surprising behavior. Remove a bunch of thereby-obsoleted datatype-specific casting functions. The "general mechanism" is a new expression node type CoerceViaIO that can actually convert between *any* two datatypes if their external text representations are compatible. This is more general than needed for the immediate feature, but might be useful in plpgsql or other places in future. This commit does nothing about the issue that applying the concatenation operator || to non-text types will now fail, often with strange error messages due to misinterpreting the operator as array concatenation. Since it often (not always) worked before, we should either make it succeed or at least give a more user-friendly error; but details are still under debate. Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane
2007-04-02Support enum data types. Along the way, use macros for the values ofTom Lane
pg_type.typtype whereever practical. Tom Dunstan, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2007-03-27Fix array coercion expressions to ensure that the correct volatility isTom Lane
seen by code inspecting the expression. The best way to do this seems to be to drop the original representation as a function invocation, and instead make a special expression node type that represents applying the element-type coercion function to each array element. In this way the element function is exposed and will be checked for volatility. Per report from Guillaume Smet.
2007-03-17Fix up the remaining places where the expression node structure would loseTom Lane
available information about the typmod of an expression; namely, Const, ArrayRef, ArrayExpr, and EXPR and ARRAY SubLinks. In the ArrayExpr and SubLink cases it wasn't really the data structure's fault, but exprTypmod() being lazy. This seems like a good idea in view of the expected increase in typmod usage from Teodor's work to allow user-defined types to have typmods. In particular this responds to the concerns we had about eliminating the special-purpose hack that exprTypmod() used to have for BPCHAR Consts. We can now tell whether or not such a Const has been cast to a specific length, and report or display properly if so. initdb forced due to changes in stored rules.
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
2006-12-24Code review for XML patch. Instill a bit of sanity in the location ofTom Lane
the XmlExpr code in various lists, use a representation that has some hope of reverse-listing correctly (though it's still a de-escaping function shy of correctness), generally try to make it look more like Postgres coding conventions.
2006-12-21Initial SQL/XML support: xml data type and initial set of functions.Peter Eisentraut
2006-12-10Add a paramtypmod field to Param nodes. This is dead weight for ParamsTom Lane
representing externally-supplied values, since the APIs that carry such values only specify type not typmod. However, for PARAM_SUBLINK Params it is handy to carry the typmod of the sublink's output column. This is a much cleaner solution for the recently reported 'could not find pathkey item to sort' and 'failed to find unique expression in subplan tlist' bugs than my original 8.2-compatible patch. Besides, someday we might want to support typmods for external parameters ...
2006-11-28Fix some translator comments so that xgettext finds them and pgindent doesPeter Eisentraut
not destroy them. Maybe we can adjust pgindent sometime.
2006-10-11Repair incorrect check for coercion of unknown literal to ANYARRAY, a bugTom Lane
I introduced in 7.4.1 :-(. It's correct to allow unknown to be coerced to ANY or ANYELEMENT, since it's a real-enough data type, but it most certainly isn't an array datatype. This can cause a backend crash but AFAICT is not exploitable as a security hole. Per report from Michael Fuhr. Note: as fixed in HEAD, this changes a constant in the pg_stats view, resulting in a change in the expected regression outputs. The back-branch patches have been hacked to avoid that, so that pre-existing installations won't start failing their regression tests.
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian
2006-07-26Code review for bigint-LIMIT patch. Fix missed planner dependency,Tom Lane
eliminate unnecessary code, force initdb because stored rules change (limit nodes are now supposed to be int8 not int4 expressions). Update comments and error messages, which still all said 'integer'.
2006-07-26Change LIMIT/OFFSET to use int8Bruce Momjian
Dhanaraj M
2006-07-14Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian
2006-07-13Allow include files to compile own their own.Bruce Momjian
Strip unused include files out unused include files, and add needed includes to C files. The next step is to remove unused include files in C files.
2006-06-16Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in useTom Lane
by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time ago for catcache entries. The back branches have an ugly solution involving lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient. Reference counting is only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context. Neil Conway and Tom Lane
2006-04-22Simplify ParamListInfo data structure to support only numbered parameters,Tom Lane
not named ones, and replace linear searches of the list with array indexing. The named-parameter support has been dead code for many years anyway, and recent profiling suggests that the searching was costing a noticeable amount of performance for complex queries.
2006-04-05Fix a bunch of problems with domains by making them use special input functionsTom Lane
that apply the necessary domain constraint checks immediately. This fixes cases where domain constraints went unchecked for statement parameters, PL function local variables and results, etc. We can also eliminate existing special cases for domains in places that had gotten it right, eg COPY. Also, allow domains over domains (base of a domain is another domain type). This almost worked before, but was disallowed because the original patch hadn't gotten it quite right.
2006-04-04Modify all callers of datatype input and receive functions so that if theseTom Lane
functions are not strict, they will be called (passing a NULL first parameter) during any attempt to input a NULL value of their datatype. Currently, all our input functions are strict and so this commit does not change any behavior. However, this will make it possible to build domain input functions that centralize checking of domain constraints, thereby closing numerous holes in our domain support, as per previous discussion. While at it, I took the opportunity to introduce convenience functions InputFunctionCall, OutputFunctionCall, etc to use in code that calls I/O functions. This eliminates a lot of grotty-looking casts, but the main motivation is to make it easier to grep for these places if we ever need to touch them again.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2006-01-12We neglected to apply domain constraints on UNKNOWN parameters toNeil Conway
prepared statements, per report from David Wheeler.
2005-11-22Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-06-04Change expandRTE() and ResolveNew() back to taking just the singleTom Lane
RTE of interest, rather than the whole rangetable list. This makes the API more understandable and avoids duplicate RTE lookups. This patch reverts no-longer-needed portions of my patch of 2004-08-19.
2005-05-30Change the UNKNOWN type to have an internal representation matchingTom Lane
cstring, rather than text, so as to eliminate useless conversions inside the parser. Per recent discussion.
2005-05-29Remove typeidIsValid() checks in can_coerce_type(). These checksTom Lane
were pretty expensive and I believe the case they were put in to defend against can no longer arise, now that we have dependency checks to prevent deletion of a type entry that is still referenced. Certainly the example given in the CVS log entry can't happen anymore. Since this was the only use of typeidIsValid(), remove the routine too.
2005-05-05Allow implicit cast from any named composite type to RECORD. At theTom Lane
moment this has no particular use except to allow table rows to be passed to record_out(), but that case seems to be useful in itself per recent example from Elein. Further down the road we could look at letting PL functions be declared to accept RECORD parameters.
2005-03-29Convert oidvector and int2vector into variable-length arrays. ThisTom Lane
change saves a great deal of space in pg_proc and its primary index, and it eliminates the former requirement that INDEX_MAX_KEYS and FUNC_MAX_ARGS have the same value. INDEX_MAX_KEYS is still embedded in the on-disk representation (because it affects index tuple header size), but FUNC_MAX_ARGS is not. I believe it would now be possible to increase FUNC_MAX_ARGS at little cost, but haven't experimented yet. There are still a lot of vestigial references to FUNC_MAX_ARGS, which I will clean up in a separate pass. However, getting rid of it altogether would require changing the FunctionCallInfoData struct, and I'm not sure I want to buy into that.
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
2004-12-11Instead of supposing (wrongly, in the general case) that the rowtypeTom Lane
of an inheritance child table is binary-compatible with the rowtype of its parent, invent an expression node type that does the conversion correctly. Fixes the new bug exhibited by Kris Shannon as well as a lot of old bugs that would only show up when using multiple inheritance or after altering the parent table.
2004-11-06When implementing a coercion to a domain type with a combinedTom Lane
type-and-length coercion function, make sure that the coercion function is told the correct typmod. Fixes Kris Jurka's example of a domain over bit(N).
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-19Repair some issues with column aliases and RowExpr construction in theTom Lane
presence of dropped columns. Document the already-presumed fact that eref aliases in relation RTEs are supposed to have entries for dropped columns; cause the user alias structs to have such entries too, so that there's always a one-to-one mapping to the underlying physical attnums. Adjust expandRTE() and related code to handle the case where a column that is part of a JOIN has been dropped. Generalize expandRTE()'s API so that it can be used in a couple of places that formerly rolled their own implementation of the same logic. Fix ruleutils.c to suppress display of aliases for columns that were dropped since the rule was made.
2004-08-17Standardize on the assumption that the arguments of a RowExpr correspondTom Lane
to the physical layout of the rowtype, ie, there are dummy arguments corresponding to any dropped columns in the rowtype. We formerly had a couple of places that did it this way and several others that did not. Fixes Gaetano Mendola's "cache lookup failed for type 0" bug of 5-Aug.
2004-06-16Represent type-specific length coercion functions as pg_cast entries,Tom Lane
eliminating the former hard-wired convention about their names. Allow pg_cast entries to represent both type coercion and length coercion in a single step --- this is represented by a function that takes an extra typmod argument, just like a length coercion function. This nicely merges the type and length coercion mechanisms into something at least a little cleaner than we had before. Make use of the single- coercion-step behavior to fix integer-to-bit coercion so that coercing to bit(n) yields the rightmost n bits of the integer instead of the leftmost n bits. This should fix recurrent complaints about the odd behavior of this coercion. Clean up the documentation of the bit string functions, and try to put it where people might actually find it. Also, get rid of the unreliable heuristics in ruleutils.c about whether to display nested coercion steps; instead require parse_coerce.c to label them properly in the first place.
2004-06-06Infrastructure for I/O of composite types: arrange for the I/O routinesTom Lane
of a composite type to get that type's OID as their second parameter, in place of typelem which is useless. The actual changes are mostly centralized in getTypeInputInfo and siblings, but I had to fix a few places that were fetching pg_type.typelem for themselves instead of using the lsyscache.c routines. Also, I renamed all the related variables from 'typelem' to 'typioparam' to discourage people from assuming that they necessarily contain array element types.
2004-05-30Use the new List API function names throughout the backend, and disable theNeil Conway
list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.
2004-05-26Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway
In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
2004-05-10Promote row expressions to full-fledged citizens of the expression syntax,Tom Lane
rather than allowing them only in a few special cases as before. In particular you can now pass a ROW() construct to a function that accepts a rowtype parameter. Internal generation of RowExprs fixes a number of corner cases that used to not work very well, such as referencing the whole-row result of a JOIN or subquery. This represents a further step in the work I started a month or so back to make rowtype values into first-class citizens.
2004-03-15Remove grotty special-case code in coerce_to_target_type() thatTom Lane
implemented casts to varchar and bpchar using a cast-to-text function. This is a holdover from before we had pg_cast; it now makes more sense to just list these casts in pg_cast. While at it, add pg_cast entries for the other direction (casts from varchar/bpchar) where feasible.
2003-12-17Reorder tests in parse_coerce so that ANY/ANYELEMENT/ANYARRAY coercionTom Lane
does not affect UNKNOWN-type literals or Params. This fixes the recent complaint about count('x') being broken, and improves consistency in a few other respects too.
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