Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr.shulgin@zalando.de>, Artur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-02-01T11:54:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2019-Feb-01, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On 2019-Feb-01, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> > I think it's worth pointing out that "git format-patch -v" exists :-)
> 
> ... and you're going to need "git format-patch -v19", because contrib
> doesn't build with 18.

And that suggests that maybe we should keep the old names working, to
avoid breaking every extension out there that deals with ArrayRef,
though I'm not sure if after patches 0002 ff it'll be possible to keep
them working without changes.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. Throw error when assigning jsonb scalar instead of a composite object

  2. Filling array gaps during jsonb subscripting

  3. Implementation of subscripting for jsonb

  4. Allow ALTER TYPE to update an existing type's typsubscript value.

  5. Allow subscripting of hstore values.

  6. Support subscripting of arbitrary types, not only arrays.

  7. jit: Reference function pointer types via llvmjit_types.c.

  8. Teach contain_leaked_vars that assignment SubscriptingRefs are leaky.

  9. jit: Correct parameter type for generated expression evaluation functions.

  10. Renaming for new subscripting mechanism

  11. Fix assertion failure for SSL connections.

  12. Teach eval_const_expressions() to handle some more cases.