postgresql/src/backend/parser
Tom Lane 66e6daa3e1 Support default arguments and named-argument notation for window functions.
These things didn't work because the planner omitted to do the necessary
preprocessing of a WindowFunc's argument list.  Add the few dozen lines
of code needed to handle that.

Although this sounds like a feature addition, it's really a bug fix because
the default-argument case was likely to crash previously, due to lack of
checking of the number of supplied arguments in the built-in window
functions.  It's not a security issue because there's no way for a
non-superuser to create a window function definition with defaults that
refers to a built-in C function, but nonetheless people might be annoyed
that it crashes rather than producing a useful error message.  So
back-patch as far as the patch applies easily, which turns out to be 9.2.
I'll put a band-aid in earlier versions as a separate patch.

(Note that these features still don't work for aggregates, and fixing that
case will be harder since we represent aggregate arg lists as target lists
not bare expression lists.  There's no crash risk though because CREATE
AGGREGATE doesn't accept defaults, and we reject named-argument notation
when parsing an aggregate call.)
2013-11-06 13:33:18 -05:00
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.gitignore Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:04 +02:00
analyze.c Fix crash in error report of invalid tuple lock 2013-08-02 13:37:40 -04:00
check_keywords.pl pgindent run for release 9.3 2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
gram.y Put analyze_keyword back in explain_option_name production. 2013-06-05 13:32:53 -04:00
keywords.c Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
kwlookup.c Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
Makefile Refactor flex and bison make rules 2012-10-11 06:57:04 -04:00
parse_agg.c pgindent run for release 9.3 2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
parse_clause.c Improve the error message given for modifying a window with frame clause. 2013-11-05 21:58:12 -05:00
parse_coerce.c Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
parse_collate.c Fix collation assignment for aggregates with ORDER BY. 2013-04-26 15:48:53 -04:00
parse_cte.c Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
parse_expr.c Remove unnecessary restrictions about RowExprs in transformAExprIn(). 2013-06-09 18:39:20 -04:00
parse_func.c Support default arguments and named-argument notation for window functions. 2013-11-06 13:33:18 -05:00
parse_node.c Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
parse_oper.c Allow CREATE TABLE IF EXIST so succeed if the schema is nonexistent 2013-01-26 13:24:50 -05:00
parse_param.c Clean up the mess around EXPLAIN and materialized views. 2013-04-12 19:25:31 -04:00
parse_relation.c Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars. 2013-07-23 16:23:52 -04:00
parse_target.c Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars. 2013-07-23 16:23:52 -04:00
parse_type.c Allow CREATE TABLE IF EXIST so succeed if the schema is nonexistent 2013-01-26 13:24:50 -05:00
parse_utilcmd.c Message style improvements 2013-08-07 22:53:50 -04:00
parser.c Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
README Revise collation derivation method and expression-tree representation. 2011-03-19 20:30:08 -04:00
scan.l Change the way UESCAPE is lexed, to reduce the size of the flex tables. 2013-03-14 19:04:43 +02:00
scansup.c Don't downcase non-ascii identifier chars in multi-byte encodings. 2013-06-08 10:00:09 -04:00

src/backend/parser/README

Parser
======

This directory does more than tokenize and parse SQL queries.  It also
creates Query structures for the various complex queries that are passed
to the optimizer and then executor.

parser.c	things start here
scan.l		break query into tokens
scansup.c	handle escapes in input strings
kwlookup.c	turn keywords into specific tokens
keywords.c	table of standard keywords (passed to kwlookup.c)
gram.y		parse the tokens and produce a "raw" parse tree
analyze.c	top level of parse analysis for optimizable queries
parse_agg.c	handle aggregates, like SUM(col1),  AVG(col2), ...
parse_clause.c	handle clauses like WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, ...
parse_coerce.c	handle coercing expressions to different data types
parse_collate.c	assign collation information in completed expressions
parse_cte.c	handle Common Table Expressions (WITH clauses)
parse_expr.c	handle expressions like col, col + 3, x = 3 or x = 4
parse_func.c	handle functions, table.column and column identifiers
parse_node.c	create nodes for various structures
parse_oper.c	handle operators in expressions
parse_param.c	handle Params (for the cases used in the core backend)
parse_relation.c support routines for tables and column handling
parse_target.c	handle the result list of the query
parse_type.c	support routines for data type handling
parse_utilcmd.c	parse analysis for utility commands (done at execution time)