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Tom Lane authored
In the normal course of operation, query trees will be serialized only if they are stored as views or rules; and plan trees will be serialized only if they get passed to parallel-query workers. This leaves an awful lot of opportunity for bugs/oversights to not get detected, as indeed we've just been reminded of the hard way. To improve matters, this patch adds a new compile option WRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES, which is modeled on the longstanding option COPY_PARSE_PLAN_TREES; but instead of passing all parse and plan trees through copyObject, it passes them through nodeToString + stringToNode. Enabling this option in a buildfarm animal or two will catch problems at least for cases that are exercised by the regression tests. A small problem with this idea is that readfuncs.c historically has discarded location fields, on the reasonable grounds that parse locations in a retrieved view are not relevant to the current query. But doing that in WRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES breaks pg_stat_statements, and it could cause problems for future improvements that might try to report error locations at runtime. To fix that, provide a variant behavior in readfuncs.c that makes it restore location fields when told to. In passing, const-ify the string arguments of stringToNode and its subsidiary functions, just because it annoyed me that they weren't const already. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17114.1537138992@sss.pgh.pa.us
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