Re: [PATCH] Generic type subscripting

Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>

From: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
To: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-09-30T20:13:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Peter Eisentraut <
peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/17 11:24, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
>> One last thing that I need to clarify. Initially there was an idea to
>> minimize changes in `pg_type`
>
> I see, but there is no value in that if it makes everything else more
> complicated.

I'm still working on that, but obviously I'll not manage to finish it
within this CF,
so I'm going to move it to the next one.

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.