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This adds a new object type "procedure" that is similar to a function but does not have a return type and is invoked by the new CALL statement instead of SELECT or similar. This implementation is aligned with the SQL standard and compatible with or similar to other SQL implementations. This commit adds new commands CALL, CREATE/ALTER/DROP PROCEDURE, as well as ALTER/DROP ROUTINE that can refer to either a function or a procedure (or an aggregate function, as an extension to SQL). There is also support for procedures in various utility commands such as COMMENT and GRANT, as well as support in pg_dump and psql. Support for defining procedures is available in all the languages supplied by the core distribution. While this commit is mainly syntax sugar around existing functionality, future features will rely on having procedures as a separate object type. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
58 lines
2.5 KiB
C
58 lines
2.5 KiB
C
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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*
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* catversion.h
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* "Catalog version number" for PostgreSQL.
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*
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* The catalog version number is used to flag incompatible changes in
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* the PostgreSQL system catalogs. Whenever anyone changes the format of
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* a system catalog relation, or adds, deletes, or modifies standard
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* catalog entries in such a way that an updated backend wouldn't work
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* with an old database (or vice versa), the catalog version number
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* should be changed. The version number stored in pg_control by initdb
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* is checked against the version number compiled into the backend at
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* startup time, so that a backend can refuse to run in an incompatible
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* database.
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*
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* The point of this feature is to provide a finer grain of compatibility
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* checking than is possible from looking at the major version number
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* stored in PG_VERSION. It shouldn't matter to end users, but during
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* development cycles we usually make quite a few incompatible changes
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* to the contents of the system catalogs, and we don't want to bump the
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* major version number for each one. What we can do instead is bump
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* this internal version number. This should save some grief for
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* developers who might otherwise waste time tracking down "bugs" that
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* are really just code-vs-database incompatibilities.
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*
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* The rule for developers is: if you commit a change that requires
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* an initdb, you should update the catalog version number (as well as
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* notifying the pghackers mailing list, which has been the informal
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* practice for a long time).
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*
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* The catalog version number is placed here since modifying files in
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* include/catalog is the most common kind of initdb-forcing change.
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* But it could be used to protect any kind of incompatible change in
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* database contents or layout, such as altering tuple headers.
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*
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*
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* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2017, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
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* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
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*
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* src/include/catalog/catversion.h
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*
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*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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*/
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#ifndef CATVERSION_H
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#define CATVERSION_H
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/*
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* We could use anything we wanted for version numbers, but I recommend
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* following the "YYYYMMDDN" style often used for DNS zone serial numbers.
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* YYYYMMDD are the date of the change, and N is the number of the change
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* on that day. (Hopefully we'll never commit ten independent sets of
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* catalog changes on the same day...)
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*/
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/* yyyymmddN */
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#define CATALOG_VERSION_NO 201711301
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#endif
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