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2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
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.
2004-06-09Support assignment to subfields of composite columns in UPDATE and INSERT.Tom Lane
As a side effect, cause subscripts in INSERT targetlists to do something more or less sensible; previously we evaluated such subscripts and then effectively ignored them. Another side effect is that UPDATE-ing an element or slice of an array value that is NULL now produces a non-null result, namely an array containing just the assigned-to positions.
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.
2004-04-18Tweak findTargetlistEntry so that bare names occurring in GROUP BY clausesTom Lane
are sought first as local FROM columns, then as local SELECT-list aliases, and finally as outer FROM columns; the former behavior made outer FROM columns take precedence over aliases. This does not change spec conformance because SQL99 allows only the first case anyway, and it seems more useful and self-consistent. Per gripe from Dennis Bjorklund 2004-04-05.
2004-04-02Get rid of crocky use of RangeVar nodes in parser to represent partiallyTom Lane
transformed whole-row variables. Cleaner to use regular whole-row Vars.
2004-03-24Replace max_expr_depth parameter with a max_stack_depth parameter thatTom Lane
is measured in kilobytes and checked against actual physical execution stack depth, as per my proposal of 30-Dec. This gives us a fairly bulletproof defense against crashing due to runaway recursive functions.
2004-03-17Reimplement CASE val WHEN compval1 THEN ... WHEN compval2 THEN ... ENDTom Lane
so that the 'val' is computed only once, per recent discussion. The speedup is not much when 'val' is just a simple variable, but could be significant for larger expressions. More importantly this avoids issues with multiple evaluations of a volatile 'val', and it allows the CASE expression to be reverse-listed in its original form by ruleutils.c.
2004-02-13Try to make 'cross-database references are not implemented' errors aTom Lane
bit more helpful by identifying the specific qualified name being complained of.
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-09-26Various message fixes, among those fixes for the previous round of fixesPeter Eisentraut
2003-09-25Message editing: remove gratuitous variations in message wording, standardizePeter Eisentraut
terms, add some clarifications, fix some untranslatable attempts at dynamic message building.
2003-08-17Fix ARRAY[] construct so that in multidimensional case, elements canTom Lane
be anything yielding an array of the proper kind, not only sub-ARRAY[] constructs; do subscript checking at runtime not parse time. Also, adjust array_cat to make array || array comply with the SQL99 spec. Joe Conway
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2003-08-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2003-07-28A visit from the message-style police ...Tom Lane
2003-07-19Another round of error message editing, covering backend/parser/.Tom Lane
2003-07-18First bits of work on error message editing.Tom Lane
2003-07-03Code review for UPDATE tab SET col = DEFAULT patch ... whack it aroundTom Lane
so it has some chance of working in rules ...
2003-06-29Support expressions of the form 'scalar op ANY (array)' andTom Lane
'scalar op ALL (array)', where the operator is applied between the lefthand scalar and each element of the array. The operator must yield boolean; the result of the construct is the OR or AND of the per-element results, respectively. Original coding by Joe Conway, after an idea of Peter's. Rewritten by Tom to keep the implementation strictly separate from subqueries.
2003-06-27Fix compile warnings.Tom Lane
2003-06-27First batch of object rename commands.Peter Eisentraut
2003-06-27Create real array comparison functions (that use the element datatype'sTom Lane
comparison functions), replacing the highly bogus bitwise array_eq. Create a btree index opclass for ANYARRAY --- it is now possible to create indexes on array columns. Arrange to cache the results of catalog lookups across multiple array operations, instead of repeating the lookups on every call. Add string_to_array and array_to_string functions. Remove singleton_array, array_accum, array_assign, and array_subscript functions, since these were for proof-of-concept and not intended to become supported functions. Minor adjustments to behavior in some corner cases with empty or zero-dimensional arrays. Joe Conway (with some editorializing by Tom Lane).
2003-06-25Back out array mega-patch.Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway
2003-06-24Array mega-patch.Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway
2003-04-29Infrastructure for deducing Param types from context, in the same wayTom Lane
that the types of untyped string-literal constants are deduced (ie, when coerce_type is applied to 'em, that's what the type must be). Remove the ancient hack of storing the input Param-types array as a global variable, and put the info into ParseState instead. This touches a lot of files because of adjustment of routine parameter lists, but it's really not a large patch. Note: PREPARE statement still insists on exact specification of parameter types, but that could easily be relaxed now, if we wanted to do so.
2003-04-08First phase of work on array improvements. ARRAY[x,y,z] constructorTom Lane
expressions, ARRAY(sub-SELECT) expressions, some array functions. Polymorphic functions using ANYARRAY/ANYELEMENT argument and return types. Some regression tests in place, documentation is lacking. Joe Conway, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2003-02-16COALESCE() and NULLIF() are now first-class expressions, not macrosTom Lane
that turn into CASE expressions. They evaluate their arguments at most once. Patch by Kris Jurka, review and (very light) editorializing by me.
2003-02-13transformExpr() was missing some cases it ought to allow; per reportTom Lane
from Greg Stark. Also, twiddle the FuncCall case to not scribble on the input structure, which was the proximate cause of the problem. Someday we ought to fix things so that transformExpr() isn't called on already-transformed trees ...
2003-02-10Get rid of last few vestiges of parsetree dependency on grammar tokenTom Lane
codes, per discussion from last March. parse.h should now be included *only* by gram.y, scan.l, keywords.c, parser.c. This prevents surprising misbehavior after seemingly-trivial grammar adjustments.
2003-02-09Create a distinction between Lists of integers and Lists of OIDs, to getTom Lane
rid of the assumption that sizeof(Oid)==sizeof(int). This is one small step towards someday supporting 8-byte OIDs. For the moment, it doesn't do much except get rid of a lot of unsightly casts.
2003-02-03Determine the set of constraints applied to a domain at executorTom Lane
startup, not in the parser; this allows ALTER DOMAIN to work correctly with domain constraint operations stored in rules. Rod Taylor; code review by Tom Lane.
2003-01-13Recent changes in sublink representation require exprType() to acceptTom Lane
SubPlan nodes, else explaining queries containing sublinks may fail.
2003-01-10Further tweaking of parsetree & plantree representation of SubLinks.Tom Lane
Simplify SubLink by storing just a List of operator OIDs, instead of a list of incomplete OpExprs --- that was a bizarre and bulky choice, with no redeeming social value since we have to build new OpExprs anyway when forming the plan tree.
2003-01-09Adjust parser so that 'x NOT IN (subselect)' is converted toTom Lane
'NOT (x IN (subselect))', that is 'NOT (x = ANY (subselect))', rather than 'x <> ALL (subselect)' as we formerly did. This opens the door to optimizing NOT IN the same way as IN, whereas there's no hope of optimizing the expression using <>. Also, convert 'x <> ALL (subselect)' to the NOT(IN) style, so that the optimization will be available when processing rules dumped by older Postgres versions. initdb forced due to small change in SubLink node representation.
2002-12-27Deliver better error message when a relation name is used in an expression.Tom Lane
Per report from Ian Barwick.
2002-12-12Preliminary code review for domain CHECK constraints patch: add documentation,Tom Lane
make VALUE a non-reserved word again, use less invasive method of passing ConstraintTestValue into transformExpr, fix problems with nested constraint testing, do correct thing with NULL result from a constraint expression, remove memory leak. Domain checks still need much more work if we are going to allow ALTER DOMAIN, however.
2002-12-12Phase 2 of read-only-plans project: restructure expression-tree nodesTom Lane
so that all executable expression nodes inherit from a common supertype Expr. This is somewhat of an exercise in code purity rather than any real functional advance, but getting rid of the extra Oper or Func node formerly used in each operator or function call should provide at least a little space and speed improvement. initdb forced by changes in stored-rules representation.
2002-12-06Re-addd Rod's ALTER DOMAIN patch.Bruce Momjian
2002-12-06Back out ALTER DOMAIN patch until missing file appears.Bruce Momjian
2002-12-06ALTER DOMAIN .. SET / DROP NOT NULLBruce Momjian
ALTER DOMAIN .. SET / DROP DEFAULT ALTER DOMAIN .. ADD / DROP CONSTRAINT New files: - doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_domain.sgml Rod Taylor
2002-11-30Code review for IS DISTINCT FROM patch. Fix incorrect constant-foldingTom Lane
logic, dissuade planner from thinking that 'x IS DISTINCT FROM 42' may be optimized into 'x = 42' (!!), cause dependency on = operator to be recorded correctly, minor other improvements.
2002-11-26Use Params, rather than run-time-modified Const nodes, to handleTom Lane
sublink results and COPY's domain constraint checking. A Const that isn't really constant is just a Bad Idea(tm). Remove hacks in parse_coerce and other places that were needed because of the former klugery.
2002-11-15Add DOMAIN check constraints.Bruce Momjian
Rod Taylor
2002-09-18Extend pg_cast castimplicit column to a three-way value; this allows usTom Lane
to be flexible about assignment casts without introducing ambiguity in operator/function resolution. Introduce a well-defined promotion hierarchy for numeric datatypes (int2->int4->int8->numeric->float4->float8). Change make_const to initially label numeric literals as int4, int8, or numeric (never float8 anymore). Explicitly mark Func and RelabelType nodes to indicate whether they came from a function call, explicit cast, or implicit cast; use this to do reverse-listing more accurately and without so many heuristics. Explicit casts to char, varchar, bit, varbit will truncate or pad without raising an error (the pre-7.2 behavior), while assigning to a column without any explicit cast will still raise an error for wrong-length data like 7.3. This more nearly follows the SQL spec than 7.2 behavior (we should be reporting a 'completion condition' in the explicit-cast cases, but we have no mechanism for that, so just do silent truncation). Fix some problems with enforcement of typmod for array elements; it didn't work at all in 'UPDATE ... SET array[n] = foo', for example. Provide a generalized array_length_coerce() function to replace the specialized per-array-type functions that used to be needed (and were missing for NUMERIC as well as all the datetime types). Add missing conversions int8<->float4, text<->numeric, oid<->int8. initdb forced.
2002-09-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2002-08-31Code review for domain-constraints patch. Use a new ConstraintTest nodeTom Lane
type for runtime constraint checks, instead of misusing the parse-time Constraint node for the purpose. Fix some damage introduced into type coercion logic; in particular ensure that a coerced expression tree will read out the correct result type when inspected (patch had broken some RelabelType cases). Enforce domain NOT NULL constraints against columns that are omitted from an INSERT.