Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting

Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>

From: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr.shulgin@zalando.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-01-04T14:00:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 08:41:17PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
> probably some is wrong still
>
> create table foo(a jsonb);
> update foo set a['a'] = '10';
> update foo set a['b']['c'][1] = '10';
> update foo set a['b']['c'][10] = '10'

Thanks for noticing. Indeed, there was a subtle change of meaning for
'done' flag in setPath, which I haven't covered. Could you try this
version?

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.