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In COMMENT, DROP, SECURITY LABEL, and the new pg_get_object_address function, we were representing types as a list of names, same as other objects; but types are special objects that require their own representation to be totally accurate. In the original COMMENT code we had a note about fixing it which was lost in the course of c10575ff005. Change all those places to use TypeName instead, as suggested by that comment. Right now the original coding doesn't cause any bugs, so no backpatch. It is more problematic for proposed future code that operate with object addresses from the SQL interface; type details such as array-ness are lost when working with the degraded representation. Thanks to Petr Jelínek and Dimitri Fontaine for offlist help on finding a solution to a shift/reduce grammar conflict.
src/backend/parser/README Parser ====== This directory does more than tokenize and parse SQL queries. It also creates Query structures for the various complex queries that are passed to the optimizer and then executor. parser.c things start here scan.l break query into tokens scansup.c handle escapes in input strings kwlookup.c turn keywords into specific tokens keywords.c table of standard keywords (passed to kwlookup.c) gram.y parse the tokens and produce a "raw" parse tree analyze.c top level of parse analysis for optimizable queries parse_agg.c handle aggregates, like SUM(col1), AVG(col2), ... parse_clause.c handle clauses like WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, ... parse_coerce.c handle coercing expressions to different data types parse_collate.c assign collation information in completed expressions parse_cte.c handle Common Table Expressions (WITH clauses) parse_expr.c handle expressions like col, col + 3, x = 3 or x = 4 parse_func.c handle functions, table.column and column identifiers parse_node.c create nodes for various structures parse_oper.c handle operators in expressions parse_param.c handle Params (for the cases used in the core backend) parse_relation.c support routines for tables and column handling parse_target.c handle the result list of the query parse_type.c support routines for data type handling parse_utilcmd.c parse analysis for utility commands (done at execution time)