Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting

From: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting
Date: 2020-12-02 14:59:58
Message-ID: 20201202145958.mkkxqmn7jeik6yem@localhost
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> 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:
> >
> > > > My first question is whether we're
> > > > able to handle different subscript types differently. For instance,
> > > > one day we could handle jsonpath subscripts for jsonb. And for sure,
> > > > jsonpath subscripts are expected to be handled differently from text
> > > > subscripts. I see we can distinguish types during in prepare and
> > > > validate functions. But it seems there is no type information in
> > > > fetch and assign functions. Should we add something like this to the
> > > > SubscriptingRefState for future usage?
> > > >
> > > > Datum uppertypeoid[MAX_SUBSCRIPT_DEPTH];
> > > > Datum lowertypeoid[MAX_SUBSCRIPT_DEPTH];
> > >
> > > Yes, makes sense. My original idea was that it could be done within the
> > > jsonpath support patch itself, but at the same time providing these
> > > fields into SubscriptingRefState will help other potential extensions.
> > >
> > > Having said that, maybe it would be even better to introduce a field
> > > with an opaque structure for both SubscriptingRefState and
> > > SubscriptingRef, where every implementation of custom subscripting can
> > > store any necessary information? In case of jsonpath it could keep type
> > > information acquired in prepare function, which would be then passed via
> > > SubscriptingRefState down to the fetch/assign.
> >
> > 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.

The attached implementation should be enough I guess, as fetch/assign
are executed in a child memory context of one where prepare does the
stuff.

Attachment Content-Type Size
v35-0001-Base-implementation-of-subscripting-mechanism.patch text/x-diff 47.5 KB
v35-0002-Subscripting-for-array.patch text/x-diff 24.8 KB
v35-0003-Subscripting-for-jsonb.patch text/x-diff 34.1 KB
v35-0004-Subscripting-documentation.patch text/x-diff 20.2 KB
v35-0005-Filling-gaps-in-jsonb-arrays.patch text/x-diff 8.0 KB

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