postgresql/src/backend/parser
Tom Lane 72cfc17aef Improve handling of unknown-type literals in UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.
This patch causes unknown-type Consts to be coerced to the resolved output
type of the set operation at parse time.  Formerly such Consts were left
alone until late in the planning stage.  The disadvantage of that approach
is that it disables some optimizations, because the planner sees the set-op
leaf query as having different output column types than the overall set-op.
We saw an example of that in a recent performance gripe from Claudio
Freire.

Fixing such a Const requires scribbling on the leaf query in
transformSetOperationTree, but that should be all right since if the leaf
query's semantics depended on that output column, it would already have
resolved the unknown to something else.

Most of the bulk of this patch is a simple adjustment of
transformSetOperationTree's API so that upper levels can get at the
TargetEntry containing a Const to be replaced: it now returns a list of
TargetEntries, instead of just the bare expressions.
2011-03-15 21:52:10 -04:00
..
.gitignore Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:04 +02:00
Makefile Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
README Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
analyze.c Improve handling of unknown-type literals in UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT. 2011-03-15 21:52:10 -04:00
gram.y Remove 13 keywords that are used only for ROLE options. 2011-03-15 10:22:58 -04:00
keywords.c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
kwlookup.c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
parse_agg.c Per-column collation support 2011-02-08 23:04:18 +02:00
parse_clause.c Support data-modifying commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in WITH. 2011-02-25 18:58:02 -05:00
parse_coerce.c Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types. 2011-03-11 16:28:18 -05:00
parse_cte.c Support data-modifying commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in WITH. 2011-02-25 18:58:02 -05:00
parse_expr.c Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types. 2011-03-11 16:28:18 -05:00
parse_func.c Remove collation information from TypeName, where it does not belong. 2011-03-09 22:39:20 -05:00
parse_node.c Per-column collation support 2011-02-08 23:04:18 +02:00
parse_oper.c Per-column collation support 2011-02-08 23:04:18 +02:00
parse_param.c Per-column collation support 2011-02-08 23:04:18 +02:00
parse_relation.c Remove collation information from TypeName, where it does not belong. 2011-03-09 22:39:20 -05:00
parse_target.c Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types. 2011-03-11 16:28:18 -05:00
parse_type.c Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types. 2011-03-11 16:28:18 -05:00
parse_utilcmd.c Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types. 2011-03-11 16:28:18 -05:00
parser.c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
scan.l Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
scansup.c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00

README

src/backend/parser/README

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)