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Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting

Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>

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From: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, 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: 2020-12-17T20:09:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 12/17/20 14:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>>   n int;
>>   v varchar;
>>   js jsonb default '{"n": 100, "v" : "Hello"};
>> BEGIN
>>   n := js['n'];
>>   v := js['v'];
> 
> If you're imagining that js['n'] and js['v'] would emit different
> datatypes, forget it.  That would require knowing at parse time
> what the structure of the json object will be at run time.

Would it be feasible to analyze that as something like an implicit
'treat as' with the type of the assignment target?

'treat as' is an operator in XML Query that's distinct from 'cast as';
'cast as foo' has ordinary cast semantics and can coerce non-foo to foo;
'treat as foo' is just a promise from the programmer: "go ahead and
statically rely on this being a foo, and give me a runtime exception
if it isn't".

It would offer a nice economy of expression.

Following that idea further, if there were such a thing as a 'treat as'
node, would the implicit generation of such a node, according to an
assignment target data type, be the kind of thing that could be accomplished
by a user function's planner-support function?

Regards,
-Chap

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.