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Tom Lane 41de93c53a Reduce indentation/parenthesization of set operations in rule/view dumps.
A query such as "SELECT x UNION SELECT y UNION SELECT z UNION ..."
produces a left-deep nested parse tree, which we formerly showed in its
full nested glory and with all the possible parentheses.  This does little
for readability, though, and long UNION lists resulting in excessive
indentation are common.  Instead, let's omit parentheses and indent all
the subqueries at the same level in such cases.

This patch skips indentation/parenthesization whenever the lefthand input
of a SetOperationStmt is another SetOperationStmt of the same kind and
ALL/DISTINCT property.  We could teach the code the exact syntactic
precedence of set operations and thereby avoid parenthesization in some
more cases, but it's not clear that that'd be a readability win: it seems
better to parenthesize if the set operation changes.  (As an example,
if there's one UNION in a long list of UNION ALL, it now stands out like
a sore thumb, which seems like a good thing.)

Back-patch to 9.3.  This completes our response to a complaint from Greg
Stark that since commit 62e666400d there's a performance problem in pg_dump
for views containing long UNION sequences (or other types of deeply nested
constructs).  The previous commit 0601cb54da
handles the general problem, but this one makes the specific case of UNION
lists look a lot nicer.
2014-04-30 13:26:26 -04:00
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
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distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
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