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Fix non-equivalence of VARIADIC and non-VARIADIC function call formats.
For variadic functions (other than VARIADIC ANY), the syntaxes foo(x,y,...)
and foo(VARIADIC ARRAY[x,y,...]) should be considered equivalent, since the
former is converted to the latter at parse time. They have indeed been
equivalent, in all releases before 9.3. However, commit 75b39e790
made an
ill-considered decision to record which syntax had been used in FuncExpr
nodes, and then to make equal() test that in checking node equality ---
which caused the syntaxes to not be seen as equivalent by the planner.
This is the underlying cause of bug #9817 from Dmitry Ryabov.
It might seem that a quick fix would be to make equal() disregard
FuncExpr.funcvariadic, but the same commit made that untenable, because
the field actually *is* semantically significant for some VARIADIC ANY
functions. This patch instead adopts the approach of redefining
funcvariadic (and aggvariadic, in HEAD) as meaning that the last argument
is a variadic array, whether it got that way by parser intervention or was
supplied explicitly by the user. Therefore the value will always be true
for non-ANY variadic functions, restoring the principle of equivalence.
(However, the planner will continue to consider use of VARIADIC as a
meaningful difference for VARIADIC ANY functions, even though some such
functions might disregard it.)
In HEAD, this change lets us simplify the decompilation logic in
ruleutils.c, since the funcvariadic/aggvariadic flag tells directly whether
to print VARIADIC. However, in 9.3 we have to continue to cope with
existing stored rules/views that might contain the previous definition.
Fortunately, this just means no change in ruleutils.c, since its existing
behavior effectively ignores funcvariadic for all cases other than VARIADIC
ANY functions.
In HEAD, bump catversion to reflect the fact that FuncExpr.funcvariadic
changed meanings; this is sort of pro forma, since I don't believe any
built-in views are affected.
Unfortunately, this patch doesn't magically fix everything for affected
9.3 users. After installing 9.3.5, they might need to recreate their
rules/views/indexes containing variadic function calls in order to get
everything consistent with the new definition. As in the cited bug,
the symptom of a problem would be failure to use a nominally matching
index that has a variadic function call in its definition. We'll need
to mention this in the 9.3.5 release notes.
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@@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ typedef struct Aggref
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List *aggdistinct; /* DISTINCT (list of SortGroupClause) */
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Expr *aggfilter; /* FILTER expression, if any */
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bool aggstar; /* TRUE if argument list was really '*' */
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bool aggvariadic; /* TRUE if VARIADIC was used in call */
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bool aggvariadic; /* true if variadic arguments have been
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* combined into an array last argument */
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char aggkind; /* aggregate kind (see pg_aggregate.h) */
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Index agglevelsup; /* > 0 if agg belongs to outer query */
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int location; /* token location, or -1 if unknown */
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@@ -358,7 +359,8 @@ typedef struct FuncExpr
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Oid funcid; /* PG_PROC OID of the function */
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Oid funcresulttype; /* PG_TYPE OID of result value */
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bool funcretset; /* true if function returns set */
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bool funcvariadic; /* true if VARIADIC was used in call */
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bool funcvariadic; /* true if variadic arguments have been
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* combined into an array last argument */
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CoercionForm funcformat; /* how to display this function call */
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Oid funccollid; /* OID of collation of result */
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Oid inputcollid; /* OID of collation that function should use */
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