Re: Insert ... (a, b, DEFAULT, c, d);

Added Copy and Equal nodes -- although InsertDefault doesn't actually
have any contents.

Opted for method b as transformTargetList is used in a number of other
places which are unaffected.  Making them work around the calling
conventions for a single place seemed silly.

Previously attached insert.out and insert.sql are the same.

--
Rod Taylor

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Rod Taylor" <rbt@zort.ca>
Cc: <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Insert ... (a, b, DEFAULT, c, d);


> Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca> writes:
> > Adds inserts with defaults.
>
> A few gripes about this ---
>
> * You can't simply invent a node type without creating any support
code
> for it.  See backend/nodes/.  copyfuncs and equalfuncs are
*required*
> functionality; infuncs/outfuncs are somewhat more negotiable.  For a
> node type that never gets past parse analysis it's okay to omit
infuncs,
> and you can get away with omitting outfuncs too.
>
> * I find it really ugly (not to say fragile) to overload resjunk
with
> this meaning.  The best solution would be to restructure the calling
> conventions for transformTargetList to fix the problem of not being
able
> to access all the lists that need to be updated.  Failing that, my
> inclination would be to pass back the unaltered InsertDefault node
> (instead of a Resdom) as part of transformTargetList's result list;
then
> an IsA test in transformInsertStmt would work to detect which
entries
> are real.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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