postgres/contrib/btree_gist
Andres Freund 578b229718 Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.
Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction
of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column,
but as part of the tuple header.

This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd,
as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important
parts of a row.  Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the
oid column by default.

The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a
significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That
already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make
table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating
that "specialness" significantly.

WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0).
Remove it.

Removing includes:
- CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be
  WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out)
- pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will
  issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column).
- restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when
  restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column)
- COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids.
- pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH
  OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first.
- Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like
  plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed.

The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false)
for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of
support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that
do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them.

The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This
commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally
declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the
newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column
naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such.  This obviously
requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via
HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column.

The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in
genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest
oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above
FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the
special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed.

Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all
backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For
the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for
the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog
tables).

The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns
means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded
by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid,
previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid
column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either
have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the
line.

While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the
scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this
now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit
after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other
patches.

Catversion bump, for obvious reasons.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-20 16:00:17 -08:00
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data Add btree_gist support for enum types. 2017-03-21 10:43:27 -04:00
expected Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility. 2018-11-20 16:00:17 -08:00
sql Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility. 2018-11-20 16:00:17 -08:00
.gitignore Support "make check" in contrib 2011-04-25 22:27:11 +03:00
Makefile Add btree_gist support for enum types. 2017-03-21 10:43:27 -04:00
btree_bit.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
btree_bytea.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
btree_cash.c Consistently use PG_INT(16|32|64)_(MIN|MAX). 2017-12-12 18:19:13 -08:00
btree_date.c Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
btree_enum.c Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
btree_float4.c Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
btree_float8.c Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
btree_gist--1.0--1.1.sql Add index-only scan support to btree_gist. 2015-03-27 23:35:16 +02:00
btree_gist--1.1--1.2.sql Handle contrib's GIN/GIST support function signature changes honestly. 2016-06-09 16:44:25 -04:00
btree_gist--1.2--1.3.sql Add uuid to the set of types supported by contrib/btree_gist. 2016-11-29 14:08:34 -05:00
btree_gist--1.2.sql Handle contrib's GIN/GIST support function signature changes honestly. 2016-06-09 16:44:25 -04:00
btree_gist--1.3--1.4.sql Add support for EUI-64 MAC addresses as macaddr8 2017-03-15 11:16:25 -04:00
btree_gist--1.4--1.5.sql Add btree_gist support for enum types. 2017-03-21 10:43:27 -04:00
btree_gist--unpackaged--1.0.sql Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
btree_gist.c Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
btree_gist.control Add btree_gist support for enum types. 2017-03-21 10:43:27 -04:00
btree_gist.h Add btree_gist support for enum types. 2017-03-21 10:43:27 -04:00
btree_inet.c Fix assorted issues in convert_to_scalar(). 2018-03-03 20:31:35 -05:00
btree_int2.c Consistently use PG_INT(16|32|64)_(MIN|MAX). 2017-12-12 18:19:13 -08:00
btree_int4.c Consistently use PG_INT(16|32|64)_(MIN|MAX). 2017-12-12 18:19:13 -08:00
btree_int8.c Consistently use PG_INT(16|32|64)_(MIN|MAX). 2017-12-12 18:19:13 -08:00
btree_interval.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
btree_macaddr.c Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
btree_macaddr8.c Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
btree_numeric.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
btree_oid.c Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
btree_text.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
btree_time.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
btree_ts.c Provide separate header file for built-in float types 2018-07-29 03:30:48 +02:00
btree_utils_num.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
btree_utils_num.h Use new overflow aware integer operations. 2017-12-12 16:55:37 -08:00
btree_utils_var.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
btree_utils_var.h Phase 2 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
btree_uuid.c Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false 2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00