Re: patch: function xmltable

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-09-07T06:44:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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> Suggested comment:
>
> /*
>  * This is the parsenode for a column definition in a table-expression
> like XMLTABLE.
>  *
>  * We can't re-use ColumnDef here; the utility command column
> definition has all the
>  * wrong attributes for use in table-expressions and just doesn't make
> sense here.
>  */
> typedef struct TableExprColumn
> {
> ...
> };
>
> ?
>
> Why "RawCol" ? What does it become when it's not "raw" anymore? Is
> that a reference to ColumnDef's raw_default and cooked_default for
> untransformed vs transformed parse-trees?
>

My previous reply was wrong - it is used by parser only and holds TypeName
field. The analogy with ColumnDef raw_default is perfect.

Regards

Pavel


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Commits

  1. Support XMLTABLE query expression

  2. Create <sect3> in the functions-xml section

  3. Improve handling of "UPDATE ... SET (column_list) = row_constructor".

  4. Add xmlexists function