Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2020-12-03 21:44:21
Message-ID: CAPpHfdsw-mz-TWmMZNVDoquB1ETYmiDmtKPt67MJcTCn2cks0w@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 10:18 PM Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 11:52:54AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 02:26:19PM +0100, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 04:12:29PM +0300, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> > >>> The idea of an opaque field in SubscriptingRef structure is more
> > >>> attractive to me. Could you please implement it?
> >
> > >> Sure, doesn't seem to be that much work.
> >
> > I just happened to notice this bit. This idea is a complete nonstarter.
> > You cannot have an "opaque" field in a parsetree node, because then the
> > backend/nodes code has no idea what to do with it for
> > copy/compare/outfuncs/readfuncs. The patch seems to be of the opinion
> > that "do nothing" is adequate, which it completely isn't.
> >
> > Perhaps this is a good juncture at which to remind people that parse
> > tree nodes are read-only so far as the executor is concerned, so
> > storing something there only at execution time won't work either.
>
> Oh, right, stupid of me. Then I'll just stick with the original
> Alexanders suggestion.

Stupid me too :)

I didn't get we can't add opaque field to SubscriptingRefState without
adding it to SubscriptingRef, which has to support
copy/compare/outfuncs/readfuncs

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Alexander Korotkov

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