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Support XMLTABLE query expression

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XMLTABLE is defined by the SQL/XML standard as a feature that allows
turning XML-formatted data into relational form, so that it can be used
as a <table primary> in the FROM clause of a query.

This new construct provides significant simplicity and performance
benefit for XML data processing; what in a client-side custom
implementation was reported to take 20 minutes can be executed in 400ms
using XMLTABLE.  (The same functionality was said to take 10 seconds
using nested PostgreSQL XPath function calls, and 5 seconds using
XMLReader under PL/Python).

The implemented syntax deviates slightly from what the standard
requires.  First, the standard indicates that the PASSING clause is
optional and that multiple XML input documents may be given to it; we
make it mandatory and accept a single document only.  Second, we don't
currently support a default namespace to be specified.

This implementation relies on a new executor node based on a hardcoded
method table.  (Because the grammar is fixed, there is no extensibility
in the current approach; further constructs can be implemented on top of
this such as JSON_TABLE, but they require changes to core code.)

Author: Pavel Stehule, Álvaro Herrera
Extensively reviewed by: Craig Ringer
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRAgfzMD-LoSmnMGybD0WsEznLHWap8DO79+-GTRAPR4qA@mail.gmail.com
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Alvaro Herrera
2017-03-08 12:39:37 -03:00
parent 270d7dd8a5
commit fcec6caafa
52 changed files with 4606 additions and 50 deletions
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src/include/nodes/primnodes.h
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@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#define PRIMNODES_H
#include "access/attnum.h"
#include "nodes/bitmapset.h"
#include "nodes/pg_list.h"
@@ -72,6 +73,27 @@ typedef struct RangeVar
int location; /* token location, or -1 if unknown */
} RangeVar;
/*
* TableFunc - node for a table function, such as XMLTABLE.
*/
typedef struct TableFunc
{
NodeTag type;
List *ns_uris; /* list of namespace uri */
List *ns_names; /* list of namespace names */
Node *docexpr; /* input document expression */
Node *rowexpr; /* row filter expression */
List *colnames; /* column names (list of String) */
List *coltypes; /* OID list of column type OIDs */
List *coltypmods; /* integer list of column typmods */
List *colcollations; /* OID list of column collation OIDs */
List *colexprs; /* list of column filter expressions */
List *coldefexprs; /* list of column default expressions */
Bitmapset *notnulls; /* nullability flag for each output column */
int ordinalitycol; /* counts from 0; -1 if none specified */
int location; /* token location, or -1 if unknown */
} TableFunc;
/*
* IntoClause - target information for SELECT INTO, CREATE TABLE AS, and
* CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW