(PATCH) Adding CORRESPONDING to Set Operations

From: Kerem Kat <keremkat(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: (PATCH) Adding CORRESPONDING to Set Operations
Date: 2011-10-19 13:01:09
Message-ID: CAJZSWkWN3YwQ01C3+cq0+eyZ1DmK=69_6vryrsVGMC=+fWrSZA@mail.gmail.com
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Adding CORRESPONDING to Set Operations
Initial patch, filename: corresponding_clause_v2.patch

This patch adds CORRESPONDING clause to set operations according to
SQL20nn standard draft as Feature F301, "CORRESPONDING in query
expressions"

Corresponding clause either contains a BY(...) clause or not. If it
doesn't have a BY(...) clause the usage is as follows.

SELECT 1 a, 2 b, 3 c UNION CORRESPONDING 4 b, 5 d, 6 c, 7 f;

with output:
b c
-----
2 3
4 6

i.e. matching column names are filtered and are only output from the
whole set operation clause.

If we introduce a BY(...) clause, then column names are further
intersected with that BY clause:

SELECT 1 a, 2 b, 3 c UNION CORRESPONDING BY(b) 4 b, 5 d, 6 c, 7 f;

with output:

b
--
2
4

This patch compiles and tests successfully with master branch.

It has been tested only on Pardus Linux i686 ( Kernel 2.6.37.6 #1 SMP
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)

This patch includes documentation and add one regression file.

This patch addresses the following TODO item:
SQL Commands: Add CORRESPONDING BY to UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT

Best Regards,

Kerem KAT

Attachment Content-Type Size
corresponding_clause_v2.patch text/x-patch 37.0 KB

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