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From: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
To: Andy Fan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Chapman Flack <[email protected]>
Cc: jian he <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Extract numeric filed in JSONB more effectively
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:33:03 +0200
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út 15. 8. 2023 v 7:23 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
napsal:

> Hi
>
> út 15. 8. 2023 v 5:24 odesílatel Andy Fan <[email protected]>
> napsal:
>
>>
>>>  jsonb_extract_xx_type just cares about the argtype, but
>>> 'explain select xx'  will still access the const->constvalue.
>>> const->constvalue is 0 which is set by makeNullConst currently,
>>> and it is ok for the current supported type.
>>>
>>
>> The exception is numeric data type, the constvalue can't be 0.
>> so hack it with the below line.  maybe not good enough,  but I
>> have no better solution now.
>>
>> +                       Const   *target =
>>  makeNullConst(fexpr->funcresulttype,
>> +
>>                -1,
>> +
>>                InvalidOid);
>> +                       /*
>> +                        * Since all the above functions are strict, we
>> can't input
>> +                        * a NULL value.
>> +                        */
>> +                       target->constisnull = false;
>> +
>> +                       Assert(target->constbyval || target->consttype ==
>> NUMERICOID);
>> +
>> +                       /* Mock a valid datum for !constbyval type. */
>> +                       if (fexpr->funcresulttype == NUMERICOID)
>> +                               target->constvalue =
>> DirectFunctionCall1(numeric_in, CStringGetDatum("0"));
>>
>>
> Personally I think this workaround is too dirty, and better to use a
> strict function (I believe so the overhead for NULL values is acceptable),
> or introduce a different mechanism.
>
> Your design is workable, and I think acceptable, but I don't think it is
> an ideal or final solution. It is not really generic. It doesn't help with
> XML or Hstore. You need to touch cast functions, which I think is not best,
> because cast functions should not cooperate on optimization of execution of
> another function.
>
> My idea of an ideal solution is the introduction of the possibility to use
> "any" pseudotype as return type with possibility to set default return
> type. Now, "any" is allowed only for arguments. The planner can set the
> expected type when it knows it, or can use the default type.
>
> so for extraction of jsonb field we can use FUNCTION
> jsonb_extract_field(jsonb, text) RETURNS "any" DEFAULT jsonb
>
> if we call SELECT jsonb_extract_field(..., 'x') -> then it returns jsonb,
> if we use SELECT jsonb_extract_field('...', 'x')::date, then it returns date
>
> With this possibility we don't need to touch to cast functions, and we can
> simply implement similar functions for other non atomic types.
>

this syntax can be used instead NULL::type trick

like

SELECT jsonb_populate_record('{...}')::pg_class;

instead

SELECT jsonb_populate_record(NULL::pg_class, '{...}')



>
>
>
> --
>> Best Regards
>> Andy Fan
>>
>


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