postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane c7aba7c14e Support subscripting of arbitrary types, not only arrays.
This patch generalizes the subscripting infrastructure so that any
data type can be subscripted, if it provides a handler function to
define what that means.  Traditional variable-length (varlena) arrays
all use array_subscript_handler(), while the existing fixed-length
types that support subscripting use raw_array_subscript_handler().
It's expected that other types that want to use subscripting notation
will define their own handlers.  (This patch provides no such new
features, though; it only lays the foundation for them.)

To do this, move the parser's semantic processing of subscripts
(including coercion to whatever data type is required) into a
method callback supplied by the handler.  On the execution side,
replace the ExecEvalSubscriptingRef* layer of functions with direct
calls to callback-supplied execution routines.  (Thus, essentially
no new run-time overhead should be caused by this patch.  Indeed,
there is room to remove some overhead by supplying specialized
execution routines.  This patch does a little bit in that line,
but more could be done.)

Additional work is required here and there to remove formerly
hard-wired assumptions about the result type, collation, etc
of a SubscriptingRef expression node; and to remove assumptions
that the subscript values must be integers.

One useful side-effect of this is that we now have a less squishy
mechanism for identifying whether a data type is a "true" array:
instead of wiring in weird rules about typlen, we can look to see
if pg_type.typsubscript == F_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_HANDLER.  For this
to be bulletproof, we have to forbid user-defined types from using
that handler directly; but there seems no good reason for them to
do so.

This patch also removes assumptions that the number of subscripts
is limited to MAXDIM (6), or indeed has any hard-wired limit.
That limit still applies to types handled by array_subscript_handler
or raw_array_subscript_handler, but to discourage other dependencies
on this constant, I've moved it from c.h to utils/array.h.

Dmitry Dolgov, reviewed at various times by Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov,
Peter Eisentraut, Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVDuGBv=M0FqBYX8DPebS3F_0KQ6OVFobGJPM507_SZ_w@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVovR+XY4mfk-7oNk-rF91gH0PebnNfuUjuuDsyHjOcVA@mail.gmail.com
2020-12-09 12:40:37 -05:00
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adminpack
amcheck Fix some typos 2020-11-14 11:43:10 +09:00
auth_delay
auto_explain
bloom
bool_plperl
btree_gin
btree_gist Expose internal function for converting int64 to numeric 2020-09-09 20:16:28 +02:00
citext
cube
dblink Move catalog index declarations 2020-11-07 12:26:24 +01:00
dict_int
dict_xsyn
earthdistance
file_fdw Remove leftover comments, left behind by removal of WITH OIDS. 2020-11-30 10:26:43 +02:00
fuzzystrmatch
hstore
hstore_plperl
hstore_plpython
intagg
intarray
isn
jsonb_plperl Expose internal function for converting int64 to numeric 2020-09-09 20:16:28 +02:00
jsonb_plpython
lo
ltree
ltree_plpython
oid2name
old_snapshot Add new 'old_snapshot' contrib module. 2020-09-24 13:55:47 -04:00
pageinspect
passwordcheck
pg_buffercache
pg_freespacemap
pg_prewarm Fix and simplify some usages of TimestampDifference(). 2020-11-10 22:51:54 -05:00
pg_standby
pg_stat_statements pg_stat_statements: Track number of times pgss entries were deallocated. 2020-11-26 21:18:05 +09:00
pg_surgery pg_surgery: Try to stabilize regression tests. 2020-09-18 13:26:48 -04:00
pg_trgm Handle equality operator in contrib/pg_trgm 2020-11-15 08:52:35 +03:00
pg_visibility
pgcrypto pgcrypto: Detect errors with EVP calls from OpenSSL 2020-12-08 15:22:12 +09:00
pgrowlocks
pgstattuple
postgres_fdw Support subscripting of arbitrary types, not only arrays. 2020-12-09 12:40:37 -05:00
seg
sepgsql Fix expected output: the order of agg permission checks changed. 2020-11-24 12:50:16 +02:00
spi
sslinfo Use be_tls_* API for SSL information in sslinfo 2020-11-03 09:47:36 +01:00
start-scripts
tablefunc tablefunc: Reject negative number of tuples passed to normal_rand() 2020-11-25 15:30:18 +01:00
tcn
test_decoding Fix 'skip-empty-xacts' option in test_decoding for streaming mode. 2020-11-17 12:14:53 +05:30
tsm_system_rows
tsm_system_time
unaccent
uuid-ossp
vacuumlo
xml2
contrib-global.mk
Makefile Add new 'old_snapshot' contrib module. 2020-09-24 13:55:47 -04:00
README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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