postgresql/src/backend/parser
Tom Lane 04836087aa Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars.
It's possible to drop a column from an input table of a JOIN clause in a
view, if that column is nowhere actually referenced in the view.  But it
will still be there in the JOIN clause's joinaliasvars list.  We used to
replace such entries with NULL Const nodes, which is handy for generation
of RowExpr expansion of a whole-row reference to the view.  The trouble
with that is that it can't be distinguished from the situation after
subquery pull-up of a constant subquery output expression below the JOIN.
Instead, replace such joinaliasvars with null pointers (empty expression
trees), which can't be confused with pulled-up expressions.  expandRTE()
still emits the old convention, though, for convenience of RowExpr
generation and to reduce the risk of breaking extension code.

In HEAD and 9.3, this patch also fixes a problem with some new code in
ruleutils.c that was failing to cope with implicitly-casted joinaliasvars
entries, as per recent report from Feike Steenbergen.  That oversight was
because of an inadequate description of the data structure in parsenodes.h,
which I've now corrected.  There were some pre-existing oversights of the
same ilk elsewhere, which I believe are now all fixed.
2013-07-23 16:23:16 -04:00
..
.gitignore Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:06 +02:00
analyze.c Check for stack overflow in transformSetOperationTree(). 2012-11-11 19:56:27 -05:00
gram.y Put analyze_keyword back in explain_option_name production. 2013-06-05 13:33:33 -04:00
keywords.c Update copyright for the year 2010. 2010-01-02 16:58:17 +00:00
kwlookup.c Update copyright for the year 2010. 2010-01-02 16:58:17 +00:00
Makefile Fix a few places where we needed -I. in CPPFLAGS to work properly in 2010-01-05 03:56:52 +00:00
parse_agg.c Pass incompletely-transformed aggregate argument lists as separate parameters 2010-03-17 16:52:38 +00:00
parse_clause.c Allow ORDER BY/GROUP BY/etc items to match targetlist items regardless of 2010-07-18 19:37:57 +00:00
parse_coerce.c Fix IsBinaryCoercible to not confuse a cast using in/out functions 2010-03-04 09:39:53 +00:00
parse_cte.c Fix WITH attached to a nested set operation (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT). 2012-07-31 17:56:37 -04:00
parse_expr.c Remove unnecessary restrictions about RowExprs in transformAExprIn(). 2013-06-09 18:39:39 -04:00
parse_func.c Further fixes to the pg_get_expr() security fix in back branches. 2010-09-25 15:57:05 -04:00
parse_node.c Wrap calls to SearchSysCache and related functions using macros. 2010-02-14 18:42:19 +00:00
parse_oper.c Improved version of patch to protect pg_get_expr() against misuse: 2010-07-29 23:16:41 +00:00
parse_param.c Revert patch to coerce 'unknown' type parameters in the backend. As Tom 2010-08-19 16:54:48 +00:00
parse_relation.c Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars. 2013-07-23 16:23:16 -04:00
parse_target.c Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars. 2013-07-23 16:23:16 -04:00
parse_type.c Wrap calls to SearchSysCache and related functions using macros. 2010-02-14 18:42:19 +00:00
parse_utilcmd.c Prevent CREATE TABLE LIKE/INHERITS from (mis) copying whole-row Vars. 2012-06-30 16:44:09 -04:00
parser.c Update copyright for the year 2010. 2010-01-02 16:58:17 +00:00
README Implement parser hooks for processing ColumnRef and ParamRef nodes, as per my 2009-10-31 01:41:31 +00:00
scan.l Change the notation for calling functions with named parameters from 2010-05-30 18:10:41 +00:00
scansup.c Don't downcase non-ascii identifier chars in multi-byte encodings. 2013-06-08 10:20:37 -04:00

$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/README,v 1.11 2009/10/31 01:41:31 tgl Exp $

Parser
======

This directory does more than tokenize and parse SQL queries.  It also
creates Query structures for the various complex queries that are passed
to the optimizer and then executor.

parser.c	things start here
scan.l		break query into tokens
scansup.c	handle escapes in input strings
kwlookup.c	turn keywords into specific tokens
keywords.c	table of standard keywords (passed to kwlookup.c)
gram.y		parse the tokens and produce a "raw" parse tree
analyze.c	top level of parse analysis for optimizable queries
parse_agg.c	handle aggregates, like SUM(col1),  AVG(col2), ...
parse_clause.c	handle clauses like WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, ...
parse_coerce.c	handle coercing expressions to different data types
parse_cte.c	handle Common Table Expressions (WITH clauses)
parse_expr.c	handle expressions like col, col + 3, x = 3 or x = 4
parse_func.c	handle functions, table.column and column identifiers
parse_node.c	create nodes for various structures
parse_oper.c	handle operators in expressions
parse_param.c	handle Params (for the cases used in the core backend)
parse_relation.c support routines for tables and column handling
parse_target.c	handle the result list of the query
parse_type.c	support routines for data type handling
parse_utilcmd.c	parse analysis for utility commands (done at execution time)