Re: SQL/JSON revisited

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 4:28 PM Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Rebased the SQL/JSON patches over the latest HEAD.  I've decided to
> keep the same division of code into individual commits as that
> mentioned in the revert commit 2f2b18bd3f, squashing fixup commits in
> that list into the appropriate feature commits.
>
> The main difference from the patches as they were committed into v15
> is that JsonExpr evaluation no longer needs to use sub-transactions,
> thanks to the work done recently to handle type errors softly.  I've
> made the new code pass an ErrorSaveContext into the type-conversion
> related functions as needed and also added an ExecEvalExprSafe() to
> evaluate sub-expressions of JsonExpr that might contain expressions
> that call type-conversion functions, such as CoerceViaIO contained in
> JsonCoercion nodes.  ExecExprEvalSafe() is based on one of the patches
> that Nikita Glukhov had submitted in a previous discussion about
> redesigning SQL/JSON expression evaluation [1].  Though, I think that
> new interface will become unnecessary after I have finished rebasing
> my patches to remove subsidiary ExprStates of JsonExprState that we
> had also discussed back in [2].
>
> Adding this to January CF.

Done.

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/41/4086/

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Thanks, Amit Langote
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