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Re: SQL:2011 application time

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-02T07:31:24Z
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  1. Rename gist stratnum support function

  2. Remove support for temporal RESTRICT foreign keys

  3. Cache NO ACTION foreign keys separately from RESTRICT foreign keys

  4. Fix NO ACTION temporal foreign keys when the referenced endpoints change

  5. Improve whitespace in without_overlaps test

  6. Tests for logical replication with temporal keys

  7. Support for GiST in get_equal_strategy_number()

  8. Make the conditions in IsIndexUsableForReplicaIdentityFull() more explicit

  9. Replace get_equal_strategy_number_for_am() by get_equal_strategy_number()

  10. Improve internal logical replication error for missing equality strategy

  11. Simplify IsIndexUsableForReplicaIdentityFull()

  12. Fix ALTER TABLE / REPLICA IDENTITY for temporal tables

  13. doc: Update pg_constraint.conexclop docs for WITHOUT OVERLAPS

  14. doc: Add PERIOD to ALTER TABLE reference docs

  15. doc: Add WITHOUT OVERLAPS to ALTER TABLE reference docs

  16. Add temporal FOREIGN KEY contraints

  17. Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints

  18. Add stratnum GiST support function

  19. Avoid crashing when a JIT-inlined backend function throws an error.

  20. Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys

  21. Fix ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE for temporal indexes

  22. Add test for REPLICA IDENTITY with a temporal key

  23. Use half-open interval notation in without_overlaps tests

  24. Use daterange and YMD in without_overlaps tests instead of tsrange.

  25. Rename pg_constraint.conwithoutoverlaps to conperiod

  26. Fix comment on gist_stratnum_btree

  27. Add missing TAP test name

  28. Improve error handling of HMAC computations

  29. Rename functions to avoid future conflicts

On 26.05.25 23:18, Paul A Jungwirth wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> Here we added a gist support function that we internally refer to by the
>> symbol GIST_STRATNUM_PROC.  This translated from "well-known" strategy
>> numbers to opfamily-specific strategy numbers.  However, we later
>> changed this to fit into index-AM-level compare type mapping, so this
>> function actually now maps from compare type to opfamily-specific
>> strategy numbers.  So I'm wondering if this name is still good.
>>
>> Moreover, the index AM level also supports the opposite, a function to
>> map from strategy number to compare type.  This is currently not
>> supported in gist, but one might wonder what this function is supposed
>> to be called when it is added.
>>
>> So I went through and updated the naming of the gist-level functionality
>> to be more in line with the index-AM-level functionality; see attached
>> patch.  I think this makes sense because these are essentially the same
>> thing on different levels.  What do you think?  (This would be for PG18.)
> 
> I agree this rename makes sense.
> 
> Here do we want to say "respective operator class" instead of
> "respective operator family"? Or "operator class/family"? Technically
> btree_gist attaches it to the whole opfamily, but that's only because
> there is no appropriate ALTER OPERATOR CLASS functionality:

Thanks, I have committed it as is.  The function is part of the operator 
family; I guess there could be different interpretations about why that 
is so, but I think this would introduce more confusion if we somehow 
talked about operator classes in this context.