Promote row expressions to full-fledged citizens of the expression syntax,

rather than allowing them only in a few special cases as before.  In
particular you can now pass a ROW() construct to a function that accepts
a rowtype parameter.  Internal generation of RowExprs fixes a number of
corner cases that used to not work very well, such as referencing the
whole-row result of a JOIN or subquery.  This represents a further step in
the work I started a month or so back to make rowtype values into
first-class citizens.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h b/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h
index 567310fa1c..d5819eab7b 100644
--- a/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h
+++ b/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2003, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h,v 1.97 2004/04/01 21:28:46 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h,v 1.98 2004/05/10 22:44:49 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -633,6 +633,23 @@ typedef struct ArrayExpr
 } ArrayExpr;
 
 /*
+ * RowExpr - a ROW() expression
+ */
+typedef struct RowExpr
+{
+	Expr		xpr;
+	List	   *args;			/* the fields */
+	Oid			row_typeid;		/* RECORDOID or a composite type's ID */
+	/*
+	 * Note: we deliberately do NOT store a typmod.  Although a typmod
+	 * will be associated with specific RECORD types at runtime, it will
+	 * differ for different backends, and so cannot safely be stored in
+	 * stored parsetrees.  We must assume typmod -1 for a RowExpr node.
+	 */
+	CoercionForm row_format;	/* how to display this node */
+} RowExpr;
+
+/*
  * CoalesceExpr - a COALESCE expression
  */
 typedef struct CoalesceExpr