Remove the code in plpgsql that suppressed the innermost line of CONTEXT
for messages emitted by RAISE commands. That was never more than a quick
backwards-compatibility hack, and it's pretty silly in cases where the
RAISE is nested in several levels of function. What's more, it violated
our design theory that verbosity of error reports should be controlled
on the client side not the server side.
To alleviate the resulting noise increase, introduce a feature in libpq
and psql whereby the CONTEXT field of messages can be suppressed, either
always or only for non-error messages. Printing CONTEXT for errors only
is now their default behavior.
The actual code changes here are pretty small, but the effects on the
regression test outputs are widespread. I had to edit some of the
alternative expected outputs by hand; hopefully the buildfarm will soon
find anything I fat-fingered.
In passing, fix up (again) the output line counts in psql's various
help displays. Add some commentary about how to verify them.
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Petr Jelínek, Jeevan Chalke, and others
Allow PL/Python functions to return arrays of composite types.
Also, fix the restriction that plpy.prepare/plpy.execute couldn't
handle query parameters or result columns of composite types.
In passing, adopt a saner arrangement for where to release the
tupledesc reference counts acquired via lookup_rowtype_tupdesc.
The callers of PLyObject_ToCompositeDatum were doing the lookups,
but then the releases happened somewhere down inside subroutines
of PLyObject_ToCompositeDatum, which is bizarre and bug-prone.
Instead release in the same function that acquires the refcount.
Ed Behn and Ronan Dunklau, reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
Similar to 2cfb1c6f77, the order in which
dictionary elements are printed is not reliable. This reappeared in the
tests of the string representation of result objects. Reduce the test
case to one result set column so that there is no question of order.
The old way of implementing slicing support by implementing
PySequenceMethods.sq_slice no longer works in Python 3. You now have
to implement PyMappingMethods.mp_subscript. Do this by simply
proxying the call to the wrapped list of result dictionaries.
Consolidate some of the subscripting regression tests.
Jan Urbański
Add test cases for inline handler of plython2u (when using that
language name), and for result object element assignment. There is
now at least one test case for every top-level functionality, except
plpy.Fatal (annoying to use in regression tests) and result object
slice retrieval and slice assignment (which are somewhat broken).
The result object methods colnames() etc. would crash when called
after a command that did not produce a result set. Now they throw an
exception.
discovery and initial patch by Jean-Baptiste Quenot
Add result object functions .colnames, .coltypes, .coltypmods to
obtain information about the result column names and types, which was
previously not possible in the PL/Python SPI interface.
reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
Add a function plpy.cursor that is similar to plpy.execute but uses an
SPI cursor to avoid fetching the entire result set into memory.
Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer
Switch the implementation of the plan and result types to generic attribute
management, as described at <http://docs.python.org/extending/newtypes.html>.
This modernizes and simplifies the code a bit and prepares for Python 3.1,
where the old way doesn't work anymore.
This changes a bunch of incidentially used constructs in the PL/Python
regression tests to equivalent constructs in cases where Python 3 no longer
supports the old syntax. Support for older Python versions is unchanged.
of the previous monolithic setup-create-run sequence, that was apparently
inherited from a previous test infrastructure, but makes working with the
tests and adding new ones weird.