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    Provide some rather hokey ways for EXPLAIN to print FieldStore and assignment · 858d1699
    Tom Lane authored
    ArrayRef expressions that are not in the immediate context of an INSERT or
    UPDATE targetlist.  Such cases never arise in stored rules, so ruleutils.c
    hadn't tried to handle them.  However, they do occur in the targetlists of
    plans derived from such statements, and now that EXPLAIN VERBOSE tries to
    print targetlists, we need some way to deal with the case.
    
    I chose to represent an assignment ArrayRef as "array[subscripts] := source",
    which is fairly reasonable and doesn't omit any information.  However,
    FieldStore is problematic because the planner will fold multiple assignments
    to fields of the same composite column into one FieldStore, resulting in a
    structure that is hard to understand at all, let alone display comprehensibly.
    So in that case I punted and just made it print the source expression(s).
    
    Backpatch to 8.4 --- the lack of functionality exists in older releases,
    but doesn't seem to be important for lack of anything that would call it.
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