Re: unnesting multirange data types

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-06-16T12:44:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:18 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> writes:
> > I did run "check-world", but it passed for me.  Probably the same
> > reason it passed for some buildfarm animals...
>
> It looks to me like the proximate problem is that you should
> have taught pg_dump to skip these new auto-generated functions.

Yes, it appears that pg_dump skips auto-generated functions, but
doesn't skip auto-generated casts.  It appears to be enough to tune
query getCasts() to resolve the issue.  The revised patch is attached.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov

Commits

  1. Fix small inconsistencies in catalog definition of multirange operators

  2. Revert 29854ee8d1 due to buildfarm failures

  3. Copy-edit text for the pg_terminate_backend() "timeout" parameter.

  4. Add missing pg_description strings for pg_type entries.

  5. Fix pg_description entries for jsonb_to_record() and jsonb_to_recordset().

  6. docs: clarify JSONB operator descriptions

  7. Set procost to 10 for each of the pg_foo_is_visible() functions.

  8. Make use of LATERAL in information_schema.sequences view.

  9. Add pg_trigger_depth() function

  10. Add database comments to template0 and postgres databases, and improve