postgresql/src/include/catalog/catversion.h
Tom Lane 7b8b8a4331 Improve representation of PlanRowMark.
This patch fixes two inadequacies of the PlanRowMark representation.

First, that the original LockingClauseStrength isn't stored (and cannot be
inferred for foreign tables, which always get ROW_MARK_COPY).  Since some
PlanRowMarks are created out of whole cloth and don't actually have an
ancestral RowMarkClause, this requires adding a dummy LCS_NONE value to
enum LockingClauseStrength, which is fairly annoying but the alternatives
seem worse.  This fix allows getting rid of the use of get_parse_rowmark()
in FDWs (as per the discussion around commits 462bd95705 and
8ec8760fc8), and it simplifies some things elsewhere.

Second, that the representation assumed that all child tables in an
inheritance hierarchy would use the same RowMarkType.  That's true today
but will soon not be true.  We add an "allMarkTypes" field that identifies
the union of mark types used in all a parent table's children, and use
that where appropriate (currently, only in preprocess_targetlist()).

In passing fix a couple of minor infelicities left over from the SKIP
LOCKED patch, notably that _outPlanRowMark still thought waitPolicy
is a bool.

Catversion bump is required because the numeric values of enum
LockingClauseStrength can appear in on-disk rules.

Extracted from a much larger patch to support foreign table inheritance;
it seemed worth breaking this out, since it's a separable concern.

Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, somewhat modified by me
2015-03-15 18:41:47 -04:00

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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* catversion.h
* "Catalog version number" for PostgreSQL.
*
* The catalog version number is used to flag incompatible changes in
* the PostgreSQL system catalogs. Whenever anyone changes the format of
* a system catalog relation, or adds, deletes, or modifies standard
* catalog entries in such a way that an updated backend wouldn't work
* with an old database (or vice versa), the catalog version number
* should be changed. The version number stored in pg_control by initdb
* is checked against the version number compiled into the backend at
* startup time, so that a backend can refuse to run in an incompatible
* database.
*
* The point of this feature is to provide a finer grain of compatibility
* checking than is possible from looking at the major version number
* stored in PG_VERSION. It shouldn't matter to end users, but during
* development cycles we usually make quite a few incompatible changes
* to the contents of the system catalogs, and we don't want to bump the
* major version number for each one. What we can do instead is bump
* this internal version number. This should save some grief for
* developers who might otherwise waste time tracking down "bugs" that
* are really just code-vs-database incompatibilities.
*
* The rule for developers is: if you commit a change that requires
* an initdb, you should update the catalog version number (as well as
* notifying the pghackers mailing list, which has been the informal
* practice for a long time).
*
* The catalog version number is placed here since modifying files in
* include/catalog is the most common kind of initdb-forcing change.
* But it could be used to protect any kind of incompatible change in
* database contents or layout, such as altering tuple headers.
*
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2015, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* src/include/catalog/catversion.h
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
#ifndef CATVERSION_H
#define CATVERSION_H
/*
* We could use anything we wanted for version numbers, but I recommend
* following the "YYYYMMDDN" style often used for DNS zone serial numbers.
* YYYYMMDD are the date of the change, and N is the number of the change
* on that day. (Hopefully we'll never commit ten independent sets of
* catalog changes on the same day...)
*/
/* yyyymmddN */
#define CATALOG_VERSION_NO 201503151
#endif