Re: Getting rid of SQLValueFunction

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-11-20T03:01:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 10:23:58AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Please note that in order to avoid tweaks when choosing the attribute
> name of function call, this needs a total of 8 new catalog functions
> mapping to the SQL keywords, which is what the test added by 2e0d80c
> is about:
> - current_role
> - user
> - current_catalog
> - current_date
> - current_time
> - current_timestamp
> - localtime
> - localtimestamp
> 
> Any objections?

Hearing nothing, I have gone through 0001 again and applied it as
fb32748 to remove the dependency between names and SQLValueFunction.
Attached is 0002, to bring back the CI to a green state.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Fix precision handling for some COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX functions

  2. Replace SQLValueFunction by COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX

  3. Switch SQLValueFunction on "name" to use COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX

  4. Improve coverage of ruleutils.c for SQLValueFunctions