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Tom Lane	fedc97cdfd	Remove ruleutils.c's special case for BIT [VARYING] literals. Up to now, get_const_expr() insisted on prefixing BIT and VARBIT literals with 'B'. That's not really necessary, because we always append explicit-cast syntax to identify the constant's type. Moreover, it's subtly wrong for VARBIT, because the parser will interpret B'...' as '...'::"bit"; see make_const() which explicitly assigns type BITOID for a T_BitString literal. So what had been a simple VARBIT literal is reconstructed as ('...'::"bit")::varbit, which is not the same thing, at least not before constant folding. This results in odd differences after dump/restore, as complained of by the patch submitter, and it could result in actual failures in partitioning or inheritance DDL operations (see commit `542320c2b`, which repaired similar misbehaviors for some other data types). Fixing it is pretty easy: just remove the special case and let the default code path handle these types. We could have kept the special case for BIT only, but there seems little point in that. Like the previous patch, I judge that back-patching this into stable branches wouldn't be a good idea. However, it seems not quite too late for v11, so let's fix it there. Paul Guo, reviewed by Davy Machado and John Naylor, minor adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABQrizdTra=2JEqA6+Ms1D1k1Kqw+aiBBhC9TreuZRX2JzxLAA@mail.gmail.com	7 years ago
Heikki Linnakangas	e09b48316c	Add index-only scan support to btree_gist. inet, cidr, and timetz indexes still cannot support index-only scans, because they don't store the original unmodified value in the index, but a derived approximate value.	11 years ago
Teodor Sigaev	42d069886f	New version. Add support for int2, int8, float4, float8, timestamp with/without time zone, time with/without time zone, date, interval, oid, money and macaddr, char, varchar/text, bytea, numeric, bit, varbit, inet/cidr types for GiST	22 years ago

Tom Lane

Remove ruleutils.c's special case for BIT [VARYING] literals.

Up to now, get_const_expr() insisted on prefixing BIT and VARBIT
literals with 'B'.  That's not really necessary, because we always
append explicit-cast syntax to identify the constant's type.
Moreover, it's subtly wrong for VARBIT, because the parser will
interpret B'...' as '...'::"bit"; see make_const() which explicitly
assigns type BITOID for a T_BitString literal.  So what had been
a simple VARBIT literal is reconstructed as ('...'::"bit")::varbit,
which is not the same thing, at least not before constant folding.
This results in odd differences after dump/restore, as complained
of by the patch submitter, and it could result in actual failures in
partitioning or inheritance DDL operations (see commit 542320c2b,
which repaired similar misbehaviors for some other data types).

Fixing it is pretty easy: just remove the special case and let the
default code path handle these types.  We could have kept the special
case for BIT only, but there seems little point in that.

Like the previous patch, I judge that back-patching this into stable
branches wouldn't be a good idea.  However, it seems not quite too
late for v11, so let's fix it there.

Paul Guo, reviewed by Davy Machado and John Naylor, minor adjustments
by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABQrizdTra=2JEqA6+Ms1D1k1Kqw+aiBBhC9TreuZRX2JzxLAA@mail.gmail.com

7 years ago

Heikki Linnakangas

e09b48316c

Add index-only scan support to btree_gist.

inet, cidr, and timetz indexes still cannot support index-only scans,
because they don't store the original unmodified value in the index, but a
derived approximate value.

11 years ago

Teodor Sigaev

42d069886f

New version. Add support for int2, int8, float4, float8, timestamp with/without time zone, time with/without time zone, date, interval, oid, money and macaddr, char, varchar/text, bytea, numeric, bit, varbit, inet/cidr types for GiST

22 years ago

3 Commits (1aebfbea83c4a3e1a0aba4b0910135dc5a45666c)