Re: proposal: schema variables

Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>

From: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, DUVAL REMI <REMI.DUVAL@cheops.fr>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-01-18T14:24:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance

Commits

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  1. Move WAL sequence code into its own file

  2. Add ExplainState argument to pg_plan_query() and planner().

  3. Don't include access/htup_details.h in executor/tuptable.h

  4. Refactor to avoid code duplication in transformPLAssignStmt.

  5. Avoid including commands/dbcommands.h in so many places

  6. Restrict psql meta-commands in plain-text dumps.

  7. Split func.sgml into more manageable pieces

  8. Fix squashing algorithm for query texts

  9. EXPLAIN: Always use two fractional digits for row counts.

  10. Preliminary refactoring of plpgsql expression construction.

  11. plpgsql: pure parser and reentrant scanner

  12. Add some sanity checks in executor for query ID reporting

  13. Fix misleading error message context

  14. Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.

On 2021-01-18 10:59, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> 
> and here is the patch
> [schema-variables-20200118.patch.gz ]


One small thing:

The drop variable synopsis is:

DROP VARIABLE [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

In that text following it, 'RESTRICT' is not documented. When used it 
does not give an error but I don't see how it 'works'.


Erik