pgsql: Remove user-selectable ANALYZE option for range types. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Remove user-selectable ANALYZE option for range types.
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Msg-id E1RT4zi-0005rL-AN@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Remove user-selectable ANALYZE option for range types.

It's not clear that a per-datatype typanalyze function would be any more
useful than a generic typanalyze for ranges.  What *is* clear is that
letting unprivileged users select typanalyze functions is a crash risk or
worse.  So remove the option from CREATE TYPE AS RANGE, and instead put in
a generic typanalyze function for ranges.  The generic function does
nothing as yet, but hopefully we'll improve that before 9.2 release.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/74c1723fc8dca2d70576ef2f0a66f4a7c99c173a

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml  |    7 -------
src/backend/commands/typecmds.c    |   18 +-----------------
src/backend/utils/adt/rangetypes.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c          |   14 +++++---------
src/include/catalog/catversion.h   |    2 +-
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h      |    3 +++
src/include/catalog/pg_type.h      |   12 ++++++------
src/include/utils/rangetypes.h     |    3 +++
8 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)


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