pgsql-server: Make the world very nearly safe for composite-type columns - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Log Message:
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Make the world very nearly safe for composite-type columns in tables.
1. Solve the problem of not having TOAST references hiding inside composite
values by establishing the rule that toasting only goes one level deep:
a tuple can contain toasted fields, but a composite-type datum that is
to be inserted into a tuple cannot.  Enforcing this in heap_formtuple
is relatively cheap and it avoids a large increase in the cost of running
the tuptoaster during final storage of a row.
2. Fix some interesting problems in expansion of inherited queries that
reference whole-row variables.  We never really did this correctly before,
but it's now relatively painless to solve by expanding the parent's
whole-row Var into a RowExpr() selecting the proper columns from the
child.
If you dike out the preventive check in CheckAttributeType(),
composite-type columns now seem to actually work.  However, we surely
cannot ship them like this --- without I/O for composite types, you
can't get pg_dump to dump tables containing them.  So a little more
work still to do.

Modified Files:
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    pgsql-server/src/backend/access/common:
        heaptuple.c (r1.91 -> r1.92)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92)
    pgsql-server/src/backend/access/heap:
        tuptoaster.c (r1.42 -> r1.43)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/access/heap/tuptoaster.c.diff?r1=1.42&r2=1.43)
    pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/path:
        allpaths.c (r1.117 -> r1.118)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c.diff?r1=1.117&r2=1.118)
        costsize.c (r1.129 -> r1.130)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c.diff?r1=1.129&r2=1.130)
        pathkeys.c (r1.59 -> r1.60)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/path/pathkeys.c.diff?r1=1.59&r2=1.60)
    pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/prep:
        prepunion.c (r1.112 -> r1.113)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c.diff?r1=1.112&r2=1.113)
    pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/util:
        relnode.c (r1.59 -> r1.60)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/util/relnode.c.diff?r1=1.59&r2=1.60)
        tlist.c (r1.64 -> r1.65)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c.diff?r1=1.64&r2=1.65)
    pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/cache:
        typcache.c (r1.6 -> r1.7)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/cache/typcache.c.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7)
    pgsql-server/src/include/access:
        tuptoaster.h (r1.17 -> r1.18)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/include/access/tuptoaster.h.diff?r1=1.17&r2=1.18)
    pgsql-server/src/include/nodes:
        relation.h (r1.95 -> r1.96)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/include/nodes/relation.h.diff?r1=1.95&r2=1.96)
    pgsql-server/src/include/utils:
        typcache.h (r1.3 -> r1.4)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/include/utils/typcache.h.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4)