Re: New version of GENERATED/IDENTITY, was Re: parser dilemma

Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> But actually it didn't showed up at that page.
> For that matter, neither patch showed up on either pgpatches
> or pgpatches_hold that you indicated yesterday.

My apologies. Something was misconfigured on my end. The web pages are
fixed now.

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>
> Best regards,
> Zolt?n B?sz?rm?nyi
>
> Bruce Momjian ?rta:
> > Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
> >
> > http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches
> >
> > It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
> > and approves it.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> some last changes. Really. :-)
> >>
> >> I made ALTER TABLE symmetric with CREATE TABLE
> >> so the grammar now has:
> >>
> >> ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER colname SET GENERATED
> >> { ALWAYS | BY DEFAULT} AS IDENTITY [ ( sequence options )]
> >>
> >> This works intuitively the same as in CREATE TABLE, i.e.
> >> - it creates an OWNED sequence (if the column doesn't already have one)
> >> - it creates or alters the sequence with the given options
> >> - adds the DEFAULT expression with the proper generation behaviour
> >> in one go. I extended the documentation and modified the test case
> >> accordingly.
> >> I also tested that an IDENTITY column can't be created with a type that
> >> cannot be cast from bigint i.e. box. I added it to the test case.
> >>
> >> Please, review.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Zolt?n B?sz?rm?nyi
> >>
> >> Zoltan Boszormenyi ?rta:
> >>
> >>> And here it is attached. Sorry.
> >>>
> >>> Zoltan Boszormenyi ?rta:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> here's the patch with the modifications suggested by Tom Lane.
> >>>> The postfix rule was deleted from b_expr and the reverse parsing
> >>>> in ruleutils.c::get_oper_expr() always puts parentheses around
> >>>> postfix operators.
> >>>>
> >>>> Other changes:
> >>>> - OVERRIDING SYSTEM VALUE in COPY can appear
> >>>> at any place in the option list.
> >>>> - pg_dump was modified accordingly
> >>>> - \copy built-in in psql now also accepts OVERRIDING SYSTEM VALUE
> >>>> - documentation and testcase updates
> >>>>
> >>>> Please, review.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>> Zolt?n B?sz?rm?nyi
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >> Zolt?n B?sz?rm?nyi
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> >> http://www.postgresql.at/
> >>
> >>
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