postgresql/src/backend/tcop
Tom Lane d0cfc3d6a4 Add a debugging option to stress-test outfuncs.c and readfuncs.c.
In the normal course of operation, query trees will be serialized only if
they are stored as views or rules; and plan trees will be serialized only
if they get passed to parallel-query workers.  This leaves an awful lot of
opportunity for bugs/oversights to not get detected, as indeed we've just
been reminded of the hard way.

To improve matters, this patch adds a new compile option
WRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES, which is modeled on the longstanding option
COPY_PARSE_PLAN_TREES; but instead of passing all parse and plan trees
through copyObject, it passes them through nodeToString + stringToNode.
Enabling this option in a buildfarm animal or two will catch problems
at least for cases that are exercised by the regression tests.

A small problem with this idea is that readfuncs.c historically has
discarded location fields, on the reasonable grounds that parse
locations in a retrieved view are not relevant to the current query.
But doing that in WRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES breaks pg_stat_statements,
and it could cause problems for future improvements that might try to
report error locations at runtime.  To fix that, provide a variant
behavior in readfuncs.c that makes it restore location fields when
told to.

In passing, const-ify the string arguments of stringToNode and its
subsidiary functions, just because it annoyed me that they weren't
const already.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17114.1537138992@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-09-18 17:11:54 -04:00
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Makefile Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
dest.c Update copyright for 2018 2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
fastpath.c Replace AclObjectKind with ObjectType 2018-01-19 14:01:15 -05:00
postgres.c Add a debugging option to stress-test outfuncs.c and readfuncs.c. 2018-09-18 17:11:54 -04:00
pquery.c Revert MERGE patch 2018-04-12 11:22:56 +01:00
utility.c Add UtilityReturnsTuples() support for CALL 2018-07-09 13:58:08 +02:00