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Allow ALTER TYPE to change some properties of a base type.

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Specifically, this patch allows ALTER TYPE to:
* Change the default TOAST strategy for a toastable base type;
* Promote a non-toastable type to toastable;
* Add/remove binary I/O functions for a type;
* Add/remove typmod I/O functions for a type;
* Add/remove a custom ANALYZE statistics functions for a type.

The first of these can be done by the type's owner; all the others
require superuser privilege since misuse could cause problems.

The main motivation for this patch is to allow extensions to
upgrade the feature sets of their data types, so the set of
alterable properties is biased towards that use-case.  However
it's also true that changing some other properties would be
a lot harder, as they get baked into physical storage and/or
stored expressions that depend on the type.

Along the way, refactor GenerateTypeDependencies() to make it easier
to call, refactor DefineType's volatility checks so they can be shared
by AlterType, and teach typcache.c that it might have to reload data
from the type's pg_type row, a scenario it never handled before.
Also rearrange alter_type.sgml a bit for clarity (put the
composite-type operations together).

Tomas Vondra and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228004440.b23ein4qvmxnlpht@development
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Tom Lane
2020-03-06 12:19:29 -05:00
parent addd034ae1
commit fe30e7ebfa
17 changed files with 970 additions and 149 deletions
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@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static Node *makeRecursiveViewSelect(char *relname, List *aliases, Node *query);
AlterDatabaseStmt AlterDatabaseSetStmt AlterDomainStmt AlterEnumStmt
AlterFdwStmt AlterForeignServerStmt AlterGroupStmt
AlterObjectDependsStmt AlterObjectSchemaStmt AlterOwnerStmt
AlterOperatorStmt AlterSeqStmt AlterSystemStmt AlterTableStmt
AlterOperatorStmt AlterTypeStmt AlterSeqStmt AlterSystemStmt AlterTableStmt
AlterTblSpcStmt AlterExtensionStmt AlterExtensionContentsStmt AlterForeignTableStmt
AlterCompositeTypeStmt AlterUserMappingStmt
AlterRoleStmt AlterRoleSetStmt AlterPolicyStmt AlterStatsStmt
@ -847,6 +847,7 @@ stmt :
| AlterObjectSchemaStmt
| AlterOwnerStmt
| AlterOperatorStmt
| AlterTypeStmt
| AlterPolicyStmt
| AlterSeqStmt
| AlterSystemStmt
@ -9365,6 +9366,24 @@ operator_def_arg:
| Sconst { $$ = (Node *)makeString($1); }
;
/*****************************************************************************
*
* ALTER TYPE name SET define
*
* We repurpose ALTER OPERATOR's version of "definition" here
*
*****************************************************************************/
AlterTypeStmt:
ALTER TYPE_P any_name SET '(' operator_def_list ')'
{
AlterTypeStmt *n = makeNode(AlterTypeStmt);
n->typeName = $3;
n->options = $6;
$$ = (Node *)n;
}
;
/*****************************************************************************
*
* ALTER THING name OWNER TO newname