pg_input_error_info() is now a SQL function able to return a row with
more than just the error message generated for incorrect data type
inputs when these are able to handle soft failures, returning more
contents of ErrorData, as of:
- The error message (same as before).
- The error detail, if set.
- The error hint, if set.
- SQL error code.
All the regression tests that relied on pg_input_error_message() are
updated to reflect the effects of the rename.
Per discussion with Tom Lane and Andrew Dunstan.
Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/139a68e1-bd1f-a9a7-b5fe-0be9845c6311@dunslane.net
This patch converts the input functions for date, time, timetz,
timestamp, timestamptz, and interval to the new soft-error style.
There's some related stuff in formatting.c that remains to be
cleaned up, but that seems like a separable project.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3bbbb0df-7382-bf87-9737-340ba096e034@postgrespro.ru
Adjust the error texts used for unrecognized/unsupported datetime
units so that there are just two strings to translate, not two
per datatype. Along the way, follow our usual error message style
of not double-quoting type names, and instead making sure that we
say the name is a type. Fix a couple of places in date.c that
were using the wrong one of "unrecognized" and "unsupported".
Nikhil Benesch, with a bit more editing by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPWqQZTURGixmbMH2_Z3ZtWGA0ANjUb9bwtkkxSxSfDeFHuM6Q@mail.gmail.com
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
It's intentional that we don't allow values greater than 24 hours,
while we do allow "24:00:00" as well as "23:59:60" as inputs.
However, the range check was miscoded in such a way that it would
accept "23:59:60.nnn" with a nonzero fraction. For time or timetz,
the stored result would then be greater than "24:00:00" which would
fail dump/reload, not to mention possibly confusing other operations.
Fix by explicitly calculating the result and making sure it does not
exceed 24 hours. (This calculation is redundant with what will happen
later in tm2time or tm2timetz. Maybe someday somebody will find that
annoying enough to justify refactoring to avoid the duplication; but
that seems too invasive for a back-patched bug fix, and the cost is
probably unmeasurable anyway.)
Note that this change also rejects such input as the time portion
of a timestamp(tz) value.
Back-patch to v10. The bug is far older, but to change this pre-v10
we'd need to ensure that the logic behaves sanely with float timestamps,
which is possibly nontrivial due to roundoff considerations.
Doesn't really seem worth troubling with.
Per report from Christoph Berg.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200520125807.GB296739@msg.df7cb.de
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
can - ability, "I can lift that log."
might - possibility, "It might rain today."
Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
during parse analysis, not only errors detected in the flex/bison stages.
This is per my earlier proposal. This commit includes all the basic
infrastructure, but locations are only tracked and reported for errors
involving column references, function calls, and operators. More could
be done later but this seems like a good set to start with. I've also
moved the ReportSyntaxErrorPosition logic out of psql and into libpq,
which should make it available to more people --- even within psql this
is an improvement because warnings weren't handled by ReportSyntaxErrorPosition.
for type 'time without time zone', as we already did for type
'timestamp without time zone'. This patch was proposed by Tom Lockhart
on 7-Nov-02, but he never got around to applying it. Adjust regression
tests and documentation to match.
time zones.
SQL99 spec requires a default of zero (round to seconds) which is set
in gram.y as typmod is set in the parse tree. We *could* change to a
default of either 6 (for internal compatibility with previous versions)
or 2 (for external compatibility with previous versions).
Evaluate entries in pg_proc wrt the iscachable attribute for timestamp and
other date/time types. Try to recognize cases where side effects like the
current time zone setting may have an effect on results to decide whether
something is cachable or not.
Allow some operator-like tokens to be used as function names.
Flesh out support for time, timetz, and interval operators
and interactions.
Regression tests pass, but non-reference-platform horology test results
will need to be updated.
Michael Paquier
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Thomas G. Lockhart