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2013-01-01Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
2012-08-10Centralize the logic for detecting misplaced aggregates, window funcs, etc.Tom Lane
Formerly we relied on checking after-the-fact to see if an expression contained aggregates, window functions, or sub-selects when it shouldn't. This is grotty, easily forgotten (indeed, we had forgotten to teach DefineIndex about rejecting window functions), and none too efficient since it requires extra traversals of the parse tree. To improve matters, define an enum type that classifies all SQL sub-expressions, store it in ParseState to show what kind of expression we are currently parsing, and make transformAggregateCall, transformWindowFuncCall, and transformSubLink check the expression type and throw error if the type indicates the construct is disallowed. This allows removal of a large number of ad-hoc checks scattered around the code base. The enum type is sufficiently fine-grained that we can still produce error messages of at least the same specificity as before. Bringing these error checks together revealed that we'd been none too consistent about phrasing of the error messages, so standardize the wording a bit. Also, rewrite checking of aggregate arguments so that it requires only one traversal of the arguments, rather than up to three as before. In passing, clean up some more comments left over from add_missing_from support, and annotate some tests that I think are dead code now that that's gone. (I didn't risk actually removing said dead code, though.)
2012-08-08Merge parser's p_relnamespace and p_varnamespace lists into a single list.Tom Lane
Now that we are storing structs in these lists, the distinction between the two lists can be represented with a couple of extra flags while using only a single list. This simplifies the code and should save a little bit of palloc traffic, since the majority of RTEs are represented in both lists anyway.
2012-08-07Implement SQL-standard LATERAL subqueries.Tom Lane
This patch implements the standard syntax of LATERAL attached to a sub-SELECT in FROM, and also allows LATERAL attached to a function in FROM, since set-returning function calls are expected to be one of the principal use-cases. The main change here is a rewrite of the mechanism for keeping track of which relations are visible for column references while the FROM clause is being scanned. The parser "namespace" lists are no longer lists of bare RTEs, but are lists of ParseNamespaceItem structs, which carry an RTE pointer as well as some visibility-controlling flags. Aside from supporting LATERAL correctly, this lets us get rid of the ancient hacks that required rechecking subqueries and JOIN/ON and function-in-FROM expressions for invalid references after they were initially parsed. Invalid column references are now always correctly detected on sight. In passing, remove assorted parser error checks that are now dead code by virtue of our having gotten rid of add_missing_from, as well as some comments that are obsolete for the same reason. (It was mainly add_missing_from that caused so much fudging here in the first place.) The planner support for this feature is very minimal, and will be improved in future patches. It works well enough for testing purposes, though. catversion bump forced due to new field in RangeTblEntry.
2012-06-10Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian
commit-fest.
2012-01-01Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian
2011-10-01Improve generated column names for cases involving sub-SELECTs.Tom Lane
We'll now use "exists" for EXISTS(SELECT ...), "array" for ARRAY(SELECT ...), or the sub-select's own result column name for a simple expression sub-select. Previously, you usually got "?column?" in such cases. Marti Raudsepp, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiugchi
2011-07-04Move Trigger and TriggerDesc structs out of rel.h into a new reltrigger.hAlvaro Herrera
This lets us stop including rel.h into execnodes.h, which is a widely used header.
2011-04-22Make a code-cleanup pass over the collations patch.Tom Lane
This patch is almost entirely cosmetic --- mostly cleaning up a lot of neglected comments, and fixing code layout problems in places where the patch made lines too long and then pgindent did weird things with that. I did find a bug-of-omission in equalTupleDescs().
2011-04-10pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-09Adjust collation determination rules as per discussion.Tom Lane
Remove crude hack that tried to propagate collation through a function-returning-record, ie, from the function's arguments to individual fields selected from its result record. That is just plain inconsistent, because the function result is composite and cannot have a collation; and there's no hope of making this kind of action-at-a-distance work consistently. Adjust regression test cases that expected this to happen. Meanwhile, the behavior of casting to a domain with a declared collation stays the same as it was, since that seemed to be the consensus.
2011-03-26Clean up a few failures to set collation fields in expression nodes.Tom Lane
I'm not sure these have any non-cosmetic implications, but I'm not sure they don't, either. In particular, ensure the CaseTestExpr generated by transformAssignmentIndirection to represent the base target column carries the correct collation, because parse_collate.c won't fix that. Tweak lsyscache.c API so that we can get the appropriate collation without an extra syscache lookup.
2011-03-25Pass collation to makeConst() instead of looking it up internally.Tom Lane
In nearly all cases, the caller already knows the correct collation, and in a number of places, the value the caller has handy is more correct than the default for the type would be. (In particular, this patch makes it significantly less likely that eval_const_expressions will result in changing the exposed collation of an expression.) So an internal lookup is both expensive and wrong.
2011-03-19Revise collation derivation method and expression-tree representation.Tom Lane
All expression nodes now have an explicit output-collation field, unless they are known to only return a noncollatable data type (such as boolean or record). Also, nodes that can invoke collation-aware functions store a separate field that is the collation value to pass to the function. This avoids confusion that arises when a function has collatable inputs and noncollatable output type, or vice versa. Also, replace the parser's on-the-fly collation assignment method with a post-pass over the completed expression tree. This allows us to use a more complex (and hopefully more nearly spec-compliant) assignment rule without paying for it in extra storage in every expression node. Fix assorted bugs in the planner's handling of collations by making collation one of the defining properties of an EquivalenceClass and by converting CollateExprs into discardable RelabelType nodes during expression preprocessing.
2011-03-11Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types.Tom Lane
CollateClause is now used only in raw grammar output, and CollateExpr after parse analysis. This is for clarity and to avoid carrying collation names in post-analysis parse trees: that's both wasteful and possibly misleading, since the collation's name could be changed while the parsetree still exists. Also, clean up assorted infelicities and omissions in processing of the node type.
2011-02-25Support data-modifying commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in WITH.Tom Lane
This patch implements data-modifying WITH queries according to the semantics that the updates all happen with the same command counter value, and in an unspecified order. Therefore one WITH clause can't see the effects of another, nor can the outer query see the effects other than through the RETURNING values. And attempts to do conflicting updates will have unpredictable results. We'll need to document all that. This commit just fixes the code; documentation updates are waiting on author. Marko Tiikkaja and Hitoshi Harada
2011-02-22Add a relkind field to RangeTblEntry to avoid some syscache lookups.Tom Lane
The recent additions for FDW support required checking foreign-table-ness in several places in the parse/plan chain. While it's not clear whether that would really result in a noticeable slowdown, it seems best to avoid any performance risk by keeping a copy of the relation's relkind in RangeTblEntry. That might have some other uses later, anyway. Per discussion.
2011-02-08Per-column collation supportPeter Eisentraut
This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause to override it per expression, and B-tree index support. Peter Eisentraut reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
2011-01-01Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian
2010-10-21Improve handling of domains over arrays.Tom Lane
This patch eliminates various bizarre behaviors caused by sloppy thinking about the difference between a domain type and its underlying array type. In particular, the operation of updating one element of such an array has to be considered as yielding a value of the underlying array type, *not* a value of the domain, because there's no assurance that the domain's CHECK constraints are still satisfied. If we're intending to store the result back into a domain column, we have to re-cast to the domain type so that constraints are re-checked. For similar reasons, such a domain can't be blindly matched to an ANYARRAY polymorphic parameter, because the polymorphic function is likely to apply array-ish operations that could invalidate the domain constraints. For the moment, we just forbid such matching. We might later wish to insert an automatic downcast to the underlying array type, but such a change should also change matching of domains to ANYELEMENT for consistency. To ensure that all such logic is rechecked, this patch removes the original hack of setting a domain's pg_type.typelem field to match its base type; the typelem will always be zero instead. In those places where it's really okay to look through the domain type with no other logic changes, use the newly added get_base_element_type function in place of get_element_type. catversion bumped due to change in pg_type contents. Per bug #5717 from Richard Huxton and subsequent discussion.
2010-09-20Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander
2010-02-26pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2009-12-23Adjust naming of indexes and their columns per recent discussion.Tom Lane
Index expression columns are now named after the FigureColname result for their expressions, rather than always being "pg_expression_N". Digits are appended to this name if needed to make the column name unique within the index. (That happens for regular columns too, thus fixing the old problem that CREATE INDEX fooi ON foo (f1, f1) fails. Before exclusion indexes there was no real reason to do such a thing, but now maybe there is.) Default names for indexes and associated constraints now include the column names of all their columns, not only the first one as in previous practice. (Of course, this will be truncated as needed to fit in NAMEDATALEN. Also, pkey indexes retain the historical behavior of not naming specific columns at all.) An example of the results: regression=# create table foo (f1 int, f2 text, regression(# exclude (f1 with =, lower(f2) with =)); NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / EXCLUDE will create implicit index "foo_f1_lower_exclusion" for table "foo" CREATE TABLE regression=# \d foo_f1_lower_exclusion Index "public.foo_f1_lower_exclusion" Column | Type | Definition --------+---------+------------ f1 | integer | f1 lower | text | lower(f2) btree, for table "public.foo"
2009-10-31Implement parser hooks for processing ColumnRef and ParamRef nodes, as per myTom Lane
recent proposal. As proof of concept, remove knowledge of Params from the core parser, arranging for them to be handled entirely by parser hook functions. It turns out we need an additional hook for that --- I had forgotten about the code that handles inferring a parameter's type from context. This is a preliminary step towards letting plpgsql handle its variables through parser hooks. Additional work remains to be done to expose the facility through SPI, but I think this is all the changes needed in the core parser.
2009-10-21Remove add_missing_from GUC and associated parser support for "implicit RTEs".Tom Lane
Per recent discussion, add_missing_from has been deprecated for long enough to consider removing, and it's getting in the way of planned parser refactoring. The system now always behaves as though add_missing_from were OFF.
2009-07-16Make backend header files C++ safePeter Eisentraut
This alters various incidental uses of C++ key words to use other similar identifiers, so that a C++ compiler won't choke outright. You still (probably) need extern "C" { }; around the inclusion of backend headers. based on a patch by Kurt Harriman <harriman@acm.org> Also add a script cpluspluscheck to check for C++ compatibility in the future. As of right now, this passes without error for me.
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-01-22Support column-level privileges, as required by SQL standard.Tom Lane
Stephen Frost, with help from KaiGai Kohei and others
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-10-07Improve parser error location for cases where an INSERT or UPDATE commandTom Lane
supplies an expression that can't be coerced to the target column type. The code previously attempted to point at the target column name, which doesn't work at all in an INSERT with omitted column name list, and is also not remarkably helpful when the problem is buried somewhere in a long INSERT-multi-VALUES command. Make it point at the failed expression instead.
2008-10-06Fix GetCTEForRTE() to deal with the possibility that the RTE it's given cameTom Lane
from a query level above the current ParseState.
2008-10-05Fix markTargetListOrigin() to not fail on a simple-Var reference to aTom Lane
recursive CTE that we're still in progress of analyzing. Add a similar guard to the similar code in expandRecordVariable(), and tweak regression tests to cover this case. Per report from Dickson S. Guedes.
2008-10-04Implement SQL-standard WITH clauses, including WITH RECURSIVE.Tom Lane
There are some unimplemented aspects: recursive queries must use UNION ALL (should allow UNION too), and we don't have SEARCH or CYCLE clauses. These might or might not get done for 8.4, but even without them it's a pretty useful feature. There are also a couple of small loose ends and definitional quibbles, which I'll send a memo about to pgsql-hackers shortly. But let's land the patch now so we can get on with other development. Yoshiyuki Asaba, with lots of help from Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane
2008-09-01Add a bunch of new error location reports to parse-analysis error messages.Tom Lane
There are still some weak spots around JOIN USING and relation alias lists, but most errors reported within backend/parser/ now have locations.
2008-08-30Fix the raw-parsetree representation of star (as in SELECT * FROM orTom Lane
SELECT foo.*) so that it cannot be confused with a quoted identifier "*". Instead create a separate node type A_Star to represent this notation. Per pgsql-hackers discussion of 2007-Sep-27.
2008-08-28Extend the parser location infrastructure to include a location field inTom Lane
most node types used in expression trees (both before and after parse analysis). This allows us to place an error cursor in many situations where we formerly could not, because the information wasn't available beyond the very first level of parse analysis. There's a fair amount of work still to be done to persuade individual ereport() calls to actually include an error location, but this gets the initdb-forcing part of the work out of the way; and the situation is already markedly better than before for complaints about unimplementable implicit casts, such as CASE and UNION constructs with incompatible alternative data types. Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2008-08-25Move exprType(), exprTypmod(), expression_tree_walker(), and related routinesTom Lane
into nodes/nodeFuncs, so as to reduce wanton cross-subsystem #includes inside the backend. There's probably more that should be done along this line, but this is a start anyway.
2008-04-29Remove typename from A_Const.Alvaro Herrera
Brendan Jurd, minor editorialization by me.
2008-03-20Arrange for an explicit cast applied to an ARRAY[] constructor to be appliedTom Lane
directly to all the member expressions, instead of the previous implementation where the ARRAY[] constructor would infer a common element type and then we'd coerce the finished array after the fact. This has a number of benefits, one being that we can allow an empty ARRAY[] construct so long as its element type is specified by such a cast. Brendan Jurd, minor fixes by me.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-11-15pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-27Fix Assert failure in ExpandColumnRefStar --- what I thought was a can'tTom Lane
happen condition can happen given incorrect input. The real problem is that gram.y should try harder to distinguish * from "*" --- the latter is a legal column name per spec, and someday we ought to treat it that way. However fixing that is too invasive for a back-patch, and it's too late for the 8.3 cycle too. So just reduce the Assert to a plain elog for now. Per report from NikhilS.
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.
2007-02-03Implement XMLSERIALIZE for real. Analogously, make the xml to text castPeter Eisentraut
observe the xmloption. Reorganize the representation of the XML option in the parse tree and the API to make it easier to manage and understand. Add regression tests for parsing back XML expressions.
2007-01-14Add support for xmlval IS DOCUMENT expression.Peter Eisentraut
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
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian