postgresql/contrib
Peter Eisentraut 639a86e36a Remove Value node struct
The Value node struct is a weird construct.  It is its own node type,
but most of the time, it actually has a node type of Integer, Float,
String, or BitString.  As a consequence, the struct name and the node
type don't match most of the time, and so it has to be treated
specially a lot.  There doesn't seem to be any value in the special
construct.  There is very little code that wants to accept all Value
variants but nothing else (and even if it did, this doesn't provide
any convenient way to check it), and most code wants either just one
particular node type (usually String), or it accepts a broader set of
node types besides just Value.

This change removes the Value struct and node type and replaces them
by separate Integer, Float, String, and BitString node types that are
proper node types and structs of their own and behave mostly like
normal node types.

Also, this removes the T_Null node tag, which was previously also a
possible variant of Value but wasn't actually used outside of the
Value contained in A_Const.  Replace that by an isnull field in
A_Const.

Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5ba6bc5b-3f95-04f2-2419-f8ddb4c046fb@enterprisedb.com
2021-09-09 08:36:53 +02:00
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adminpack Rename Default Roles to Predefined Roles 2021-04-01 15:32:06 -04:00
amcheck contrib/amcheck: Add heapam CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(). 2021-08-26 18:42:20 -07:00
auth_delay Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
auto_explain Unify PostgresNode's new() and get_new_node() methods 2021-07-29 05:58:08 -04:00
bloom Unify PostgresNode's new() and get_new_node() methods 2021-07-29 05:58:08 -04:00
bool_plperl Fix broken ruleutils support for function TRANSFORM clauses. 2021-01-25 13:03:43 -05:00
btree_gin Fix failure of btree_gin indexscans with "char" type and </<= operators. 2021-08-10 18:10:29 -04:00
btree_gist Improve performance of float overflow checks in btree_gist 2021-08-19 10:42:44 +09:00
citext Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
cube Add binary I/O capability for cube datatype. 2021-03-06 12:04:05 -05:00
dblink Revert use singular for -1 (commits 9ee7d533da and 5da9868ed9 2021-05-01 10:42:44 -04:00
dict_int Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
earthdistance Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
file_fdw Rename Default Roles to Predefined Roles 2021-04-01 15:32:06 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
hstore Remove deprecated containment operators for contrib types. 2021-03-05 10:45:41 -05:00
hstore_plperl Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
hstore_plpython Fix broken ruleutils support for function TRANSFORM clauses. 2021-01-25 13:03:43 -05:00
intagg Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:42 -04:00
intarray Clean up some code using "(expr) ? true : false" 2021-09-08 09:44:04 +09:00
isn Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
jsonb_plperl Expose internal function for converting int64 to numeric 2020-09-09 20:16:28 +02:00
jsonb_plpython Support infinity and -infinity in the numeric data type. 2020-07-22 19:19:44 -04:00
lo
ltree Clean up some code using "(expr) ? true : false" 2021-09-08 09:44:04 +09:00
ltree_plpython
oid2name Add a copyright notice to perl files lacking one. 2021-05-07 10:56:14 -04:00
old_snapshot Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v14. 2021-05-12 13:14:10 -04:00
pageinspect pageinspect: Improve page_header() for pages of 32kB 2021-07-12 11:05:27 +09:00
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
pg_buffercache
pg_freespacemap
pg_prewarm Replace RelationOpenSmgr() with RelationGetSmgr(). 2021-07-12 17:01:36 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Harden pg_stat_statements tests against CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS. 2021-07-25 23:25:15 -04:00
pg_surgery Improve error messages about mismatching relkind 2021-07-08 09:44:51 +02:00
pg_trgm Avoid determining regexp subexpression matches, when possible. 2021-08-09 11:26:34 -04:00
pg_visibility Replace RelationOpenSmgr() with RelationGetSmgr(). 2021-07-12 17:01:36 -04:00
pgcrypto Add alternative output for OpenSSL 3 without legacy loaded 2021-08-10 15:08:46 +02:00
pgrowlocks Rename Default Roles to Predefined Roles 2021-04-01 15:32:06 -04:00
pgstattuple Improve error messages about mismatching relkind 2021-07-08 09:44:51 +02:00
postgres_fdw Remove Value node struct 2021-09-09 08:36:53 +02:00
seg Stabilize contrib/seg regression test. 2021-06-07 14:52:42 -04:00
sepgsql Clean up some code using "(expr) ? true : false" 2021-09-08 09:44:04 +09:00
spi
sslinfo Use be_tls_* API for SSL information in sslinfo 2020-11-03 09:47:36 +01:00
start-scripts
tablefunc Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
tcn Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
test_decoding Fix toast rewrites in logical decoding. 2021-08-25 09:53:07 +05:30
tsm_system_rows Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
tsm_system_time Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
unaccent Update Unicode data to CLDR 39 2021-04-08 08:28:03 +02:00
uuid-ossp Add result size as argument of pg_cryptohash_final() for overflow checks 2021-02-15 10:18:34 +09:00
vacuumlo Add a copyright notice to perl files lacking one. 2021-05-07 10:56:14 -04:00
xml2
contrib-global.mk
Makefile Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option 2021-02-01 19:19:44 +09:00
README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.