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This introduces a new function equalRowTypes() that is effectively a subset of equalTupleDescs() but only compares the number of attributes and attribute name, type, typmod, and collation. This is enough for most existing uses of equalTupleDescs(), which are changed to use the new function. The only remaining callers of equalTupleDescs() are those that really want to check the full tuple descriptor as such, without concern about record or row or record type semantics. The existing function hashTupleDesc() is renamed to hashRowType(), because it now corresponds more to equalRowTypes(). The purpose of this change is to be clearer about the semantics of the equality asked for by each caller. (At least one caller had a comment that questioned whether equalTupleDescs() was too restrictive.) For example, 4f622503d6d removed attstattarget from the tuple descriptor structure. It was not fully clear at the time how this should affect equalTupleDescs(). Now the answer is clear: By their own definitions, equalRowTypes() does not care, and equalTupleDescs() just compares whatever is in the tuple descriptor but does not care why it is in there. Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f656d6d9-6660-4518-a006-2f65cafbebd1%40eisentraut.org
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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