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Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators.

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This feature has been a thorn in our sides for a long time, causing
many grammatical ambiguity problems.  It doesn't seem worth the
pain to continue to support it, so remove it.

There are some follow-on improvements we can make in the grammar,
but this commit only removes the bare minimum number of productions,
plus assorted backend support code.

Note that pg_dump and psql continue to have full support, since
they may be used against older servers.  However, pg_dump warns
about postfix operators.  There is also a check in pg_upgrade.

Documentation-wise, I (tgl) largely removed the "left unary"
terminology in favor of saying "prefix operator", which is
a more standard and IMO less confusing term.

I included a catversion bump, although no initial catalog data
changes here, to mark the boundary at which oprkind = 'r'
stopped being valid in pg_operator.

Mark Dilger, based on work by myself and Robert Haas;
review by John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/38ca86db-42ab-9b48-2902-337a0d6b8311@2ndquadrant.com
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Tom Lane
2020-09-17 19:38:05 -04:00
parent 76f412ab31
commit 1ed6b89563
32 changed files with 279 additions and 339 deletions
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src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
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@ -9198,35 +9198,14 @@ get_oper_expr(OpExpr *expr, deparse_context *context)
}
else
{
/* unary operator --- but which side? */
/* prefix operator */
Node *arg = (Node *) linitial(args);
HeapTuple tp;
Form_pg_operator optup;
tp = SearchSysCache1(OPEROID, ObjectIdGetDatum(opno));
if (!HeapTupleIsValid(tp))
elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for operator %u", opno);
optup = (Form_pg_operator) GETSTRUCT(tp);
switch (optup->oprkind)
{
case 'l':
appendStringInfo(buf, "%s ",
generate_operator_name(opno,
InvalidOid,
exprType(arg)));
get_rule_expr_paren(arg, context, true, (Node *) expr);
break;
case 'r':
get_rule_expr_paren(arg, context, true, (Node *) expr);
appendStringInfo(buf, " %s",
generate_operator_name(opno,
exprType(arg),
InvalidOid));
break;
default:
elog(ERROR, "bogus oprkind: %d", optup->oprkind);
}
ReleaseSysCache(tp);
appendStringInfo(buf, "%s ",
generate_operator_name(opno,
InvalidOid,
exprType(arg)));
get_rule_expr_paren(arg, context, true, (Node *) expr);
}
if (!PRETTY_PAREN(context))
appendStringInfoChar(buf, ')');
@ -11087,10 +11066,6 @@ generate_operator_name(Oid operid, Oid arg1, Oid arg2)
p_result = left_oper(NULL, list_make1(makeString(oprname)), arg2,
true, -1);
break;
case 'r':
p_result = right_oper(NULL, list_make1(makeString(oprname)), arg1,
true, -1);
break;
default:
elog(ERROR, "unrecognized oprkind: %d", operform->oprkind);
p_result = NULL; /* keep compiler quiet */