Add pg_basetype() function to obtain a DOMAIN base type
Steve Chavez <steve@supabase.io>
From: Steve Chavez <steve@supabase.io>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-09-09T04:17:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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- 0001-Add-pg_basetype-regtype.patch (text/x-patch) patch 0001
Hello hackers,
Currently obtaining the base type of a domain involves a somewhat long
recursive query. Consider:
```
create domain mytext as text;
create domain mytext_child_1 as mytext;
create domain mytext_child_2 as mytext_child_1;
```
To get `mytext_child_2` base type we can do:
```
WITH RECURSIVE
recurse AS (
SELECT
oid,
typbasetype,
COALESCE(NULLIF(typbasetype, 0), oid) AS base
FROM pg_type
UNION
SELECT
t.oid,
b.typbasetype,
COALESCE(NULLIF(b.typbasetype, 0), b.oid) AS base
FROM recurse t
JOIN pg_type b ON t.typbasetype = b.oid
)
SELECT
oid::regtype,
base::regtype
FROM recurse
WHERE typbasetype = 0 and oid = 'mytext_child_2'::regtype;
oid | base
----------------+------
mytext_child_2 | text
```
Core has the `getBaseType` function, which already gets a domain base type
recursively.
I've attached a patch that exposes a `pg_basetype` SQL function that uses
`getBaseType`, so the long query above just becomes:
```
select pg_basetype('mytext_child_2'::regtype);
pg_basetype
-------------
text
(1 row)
```
Tests and docs are added.
Best regards,
Steve Chavez
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Add pg_basetype() function to extract a domain's base type.
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