Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting

From: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Oleksandr Shulgin <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting
Date: 2020-08-05 14:04:22
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> On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 12:50:12PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe this could be salvaged by flushing 0005 in its current form and
> > > having the jsonb subscript executor do something like "if the current
> > > value-to-be-subscripted is a JSON array, then try to convert the textual
> > > subscript value to an integer". Not sure about what the error handling
> > > rules ought to be like, though.
> >
> > I'm fine with the idea of separating 0005 patch and potentially prusuing
> > it as an independent item. Just need to rebase 0006, since Pavel
> > mentioned that it's a reasonable change he would like to see in the
> > final result.
> >
>
> +1

Here is what I had in mind. Worth noting that, as well as the original
patch, the attached implementation keeps the same behaviour for negative
indices. Also, I've removed a strange inconsistency one could notice
with the original implementation, when one extra gap was introduced when
we append something at the beginning of an array.

Attachment Content-Type Size
v33-0001-Base-implementation-of-subscripting-mechanism.patch text/x-diff 47.5 KB
v33-0002-Subscripting-for-array.patch text/x-diff 24.8 KB
v33-0003-Subscripting-for-jsonb.patch text/x-diff 34.1 KB
v33-0004-Subscripting-documentation.patch text/x-diff 20.0 KB
v33-0005-Filling-gaps-in-jsonb-arrays.patch text/x-diff 6.2 KB

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