postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 6655d931c6 Handle default NULL insertion a little better.
If a column is omitted in an INSERT, and there's no column default,
the code in preptlist.c generates a NULL Const to be inserted.
Furthermore, if the column is of a domain type, we wrap the Const
in CoerceToDomain, so as to throw a run-time error if the domain
has a NOT NULL constraint.  That's fine as far as it goes, but
there are two problems:

1. We're being sloppy about the type/typmod that the Const is
labeled with.  It really should have the domain's base type/typmod,
since it's the input to CoerceToDomain not the output.  This can
result in coerce_to_domain inserting a useless length-coercion
function (useless because it's being applied to a null).  The
coercion would typically get const-folded away later, but it'd
be better not to create it in the first place.

2. We're not applying expression preprocessing (specifically,
eval_const_expressions) to the resulting expression tree.
The planner's primary expression-preprocessing pass already happened,
so that means the length coercion step and CoerceToDomain node miss
preprocessing altogether.

This is at the least inefficient, since it means the length coercion
and CoerceToDomain will actually be executed for each inserted row,
though they could be const-folded away in most cases.  Worse, it
seems possible that missing preprocessing for the length coercion
could result in an invalid plan (for example, due to failing to
perform default-function-argument insertion).  I'm not aware of
any live bug of that sort with core datatypes, and it might be
unreachable for extension types as well because of restrictions of
CREATE CAST, but I'm not entirely convinced that it's unreachable.
Hence, it seems worth back-patching the fix (although I only went
back to v14, as the patch doesn't apply cleanly at all in v13).

There are several places in the rewriter that are building null
domain constants the same way as preptlist.c.  While those are
before the planner and hence don't have any reachable bug, they're
still applying a length coercion that will be const-folded away
later, uselessly wasting cycles.  Hence, make a utility routine
that all of these places can call to do it right.

Making this code more careful about the typmod assigned to the
generated NULL constant has visible but cosmetic effects on some
of the plans shown in contrib/postgres_fdw's regression tests.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1865579.1738113656@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 14
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adminpack Use "data directory" not "current directory" in error messages. 2023-03-16 12:04:08 -04:00
amcheck amcheck: Normalize index tuples containing uncompressed varlena 2024-03-23 23:02:30 +02:00
auth_delay Fix copy-pasto in contrib/auth_delay/meson.build variable name. 2023-04-02 09:31:10 -07:00
auto_explain Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
basebackup_to_shell Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
basic_archive Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
bloom Count contrib/bloom index scans in pgstat view. 2024-11-12 20:57:41 -05:00
bool_plperl Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
btree_gin btree_gin: Fix calculation of leftmost interval value. 2023-10-29 11:14:36 +00:00
btree_gist Remove useless casts to (void *) in arguments of some system functions 2023-02-07 06:57:59 +01:00
citext Skip citext_utf8 test on Windows. 2024-08-02 10:03:45 +12:00
cube Rework pg_input_error_message(), now renamed pg_input_error_info() 2023-02-28 08:04:13 +09:00
dblink rename "gss_accept_deleg" to "gss_accept_delegation". 2023-05-20 21:32:54 -04:00
dict_int Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
earthdistance contrib/earthdistance: Use SQL-standard function bodies. 2024-12-14 16:07:18 -05:00
file_fdw Improve several permission-related error messages. 2023-03-17 10:33:09 +01:00
fuzzystrmatch Ensure Soundex difference() function handles empty input sanely. 2023-05-16 10:53:42 -04:00
hstore hstore: Tighten key/value parsing check for whitespaces 2023-06-12 09:14:03 +09:00
hstore_plperl Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
hstore_plpython In hstore_plpython, avoid crashing when return value isn't a mapping. 2023-04-27 11:55:06 -04:00
intagg Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
intarray Fix integer-overflow problem in intarray's g_int_decompress(). 2024-01-07 15:19:50 -05:00
isn Rework pg_input_error_message(), now renamed pg_input_error_info() 2023-02-28 08:04:13 +09:00
jsonb_plperl Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
jsonb_plpython Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
lo Repair incorrect handling of AfterTriggerSharedData.ats_modifiedcols. 2025-01-22 11:58:20 -05:00
ltree Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
ltree_plpython Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
oid2name Mark options as deprecated in usage output 2023-03-02 14:36:37 +01:00
old_snapshot Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
pageinspect Fix contrib/pageinspect's test for sequences. 2024-09-13 10:16:40 -05:00
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
pg_buffercache Add pg_buffercache_usage_counts() to contrib/pg_buffercache. 2023-04-07 14:25:53 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
pg_prewarm Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Add missing query ID reporting in extended query protocol 2024-09-18 09:59:19 +09:00
pg_surgery Remove useless casts to (void *) in arguments of some system functions 2023-02-07 06:57:59 +01:00
pg_trgm Fix arrays comparison in CompareOpclassOptions() 2024-11-12 01:53:40 +02:00
pg_visibility Restore smgrtruncate() prototype in back-branches. 2025-01-08 10:46:45 +13:00
pg_walinspect Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
pgcrypto pgcrypto: Fix check for buffer size 2024-01-30 11:15:46 +01:00
pgrowlocks Adjust the order of the prechecks in pgrowlocks() 2023-10-31 16:42:35 +13:00
pgstattuple Reintroduce support for sequences in pgstattuple and pageinspect. 2024-09-12 16:31:29 -05:00
postgres_fdw Handle default NULL insertion a little better. 2025-01-29 15:31:55 -05:00
seg seg: Add test "security" in meson.build 2024-01-18 10:12:51 +09:00
sepgsql meson: Fix sepgsql installation 2025-01-24 10:55:24 +01:00
spi Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
sslinfo Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
start-scripts Remove gratuitous references to postmaster program 2023-01-26 10:48:32 +01:00
tablefunc Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
tcn Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
test_decoding Fix invalidation of local pgstats references for entry reinitialization 2024-12-09 10:46:09 +09:00
tsm_system_rows Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
tsm_system_time Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
unaccent unaccent: Tweak value of PYTHON when building without Python support 2023-09-27 14:41:15 +09:00
uuid-ossp New header varatt.h split off from postgres.h 2023-01-10 05:54:36 +01:00
vacuumlo Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
xml2 Replace usages of xmlXPathCompile() with xmlXPathCtxtCompile(). 2024-09-15 13:33:09 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Respect TEMP_CONFIG when pg_regress_check and friends are called 2016-02-27 12:28:21 -05:00
Makefile Revert "Rename contrib module basic_archive to basic_wal_module" 2023-01-26 09:13:39 +09:00
meson.build Revert "Rename contrib module basic_archive to basic_wal_module" 2023-01-26 09:13:39 +09:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.