The previous implementation of EXTRACT mapped internally to
date_part(), which returned type double precision (since it was
implemented long before the numeric type existed). This can lead to
imprecise output in some cases, so returning numeric would be
preferrable. Changing the return type of an existing function is a
bit risky, so instead we do the following: We implement a new set of
functions, which are now called "extract", in parallel to the existing
date_part functions. They work the same way internally but use
numeric instead of float8. The EXTRACT construct is now mapped by the
parser to these new extract functions. That way, dumps of views
etc. from old versions (which would use date_part) continue to work
unchanged, but new uses will map to the new extract functions.
Additionally, the reverse compilation of EXTRACT now reproduces the
original syntax, using the new mechanism introduced in
40c24bfef9.
The following minor changes of behavior result from the new
implementation:
- The column name from an isolated EXTRACT call is now "extract"
instead of "date_part".
- Extract from date now rejects inappropriate field names such as
HOUR. It was previously mapped internally to extract from
timestamp, so it would silently accept everything appropriate for
timestamp.
- Return values when extracting fields with possibly fractional
values, such as second and epoch, now have the full scale that the
value has internally (so, for example, '1.000000' instead of just
'1').
Reported-by: Petr Fedorov <petr.fedorov@phystech.edu>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/42b73d2d-da12-ba9f-570a-420e0cce19d9@phystech.edu
\crosstabview's complaint about multiple entries for the same crosstab
cell quoted the wrong row and/or column values. It would accidentally
appear to work if the data had been in strcmp() order to start with,
which probably explains how we missed noticing this during development.
This could be fixed in more than one way, but the way I chose was to
hang onto both result pointers from bsearch() and use those to get at
the value names.
In passing, avoid casting away const in the bsearch comparison functions.
No bug there, just poor style.
Per bug #14476 from Tomonari Katsumata. Back-patch to 9.6 where
\crosstabview was introduced.
Report: https://postgr.es/m/20161225021519.10139.45460@wrigleys.postgresql.org
In arguments, these meta-commands wrongly treated each pair as closing
the double quoted string. Make the behavior match the documentation.
This is a compatibility break, but I more expect to find software with
untested reliance on the documented behavior than software reliant on
today's behavior. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
To achieve this, ANALYZE the data table before querying it, as suggested
by Tom Lane. On my system, this enables the test to pass with 128 kB of
work_mem (a value with which other tests fail -- so it seems good
enough).
Reported by Michaël Paquier.
\crosstabview interpreted its arguments in an unusual way, including
doing case-insensitive matching of unquoted column names, which is
surely not the right thing. Rip that out in favor of doing something
equivalent to the dequoting/case-folding rules used by other psql
commands. To keep it simple, change the syntax so that the optional
sort column is specified as a separate argument, instead of the
also-quite-unusual syntax that attached it to the colH argument with
a colon.
Also, rework the error messages to be closer to project style.
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane
Noah Misch
Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera