Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting
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Msg-id CAFj8pRA784QJU2Yr-f-frgRdXNuA4b50ug8as=NyzPSiV-K5bA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting  (Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Generic type subscripting  (Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>)
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st 9. 9. 2020 v 23:04 odesílatel Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> napsal:
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 04:04:22PM +0200, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 12:50:12PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > >
> > > > Maybe this could be salvaged by flushing 0005 in its current form and
> > > > having the jsonb subscript executor do something like "if the current
> > > > value-to-be-subscripted is a JSON array, then try to convert the textual
> > > > subscript value to an integer".  Not sure about what the error handling
> > > > rules ought to be like, though.
> > >
> > > I'm fine with the idea of separating 0005 patch and potentially prusuing
> > > it as an independent item. Just need to rebase 0006, since Pavel
> > > mentioned that it's a reasonable change he would like to see in the
> > > final result.
> >
> > +1
>
> Here is what I had in mind. Worth noting that, as well as the original

This seems to already hit a merge conflict (8febfd185).
Would you re-rebase ?

This can be easy fixed. Maybe I found a another issue.

create table foo(a jsonb);

postgres=# select * from foo;
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                 a                                 │
╞═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╡
│ [0, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "ahoj"] │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
(1 row)

It is working like I expect

but

postgres=# truncate foo;
TRUNCATE TABLE
postgres=# insert into foo values('[]');
INSERT 0 1
postgres=# update foo set a[10] = 'ahoj';
UPDATE 1
postgres=# select * from foo;
┌──────────┐
│    a     │
╞══════════╡
│ ["ahoj"] │
└──────────┘
(1 row)

Other parts look well. The plpgsql support is not part of this patch, but it can be the next step. Implemented feature is interesting enough - it is a simple user friendly interface for work with jsonb and in future with other types.

Regards

Pavel


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Justin

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