Eliminate some unbelievably cheesy code in _copyConst().

Apparently, back in the dim reaches of prehistory, the parser couldn't
be trusted to label Const nodes with the correct constbyval value ...
and someone preferred to patch around this in copyObject rather than
fix the problem at the source.  The problem is long gone, but the hack
lingered on.  Until now.

src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c

@@ -7,50 +7,58 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c,v 1.93 1999/10/07 04:23:03 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c,v 1.94 1999/11/01 05:15:13 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
 
 #include "postgres.h"
 
-#include "catalog/pg_type.h"
 #include "optimizer/planmain.h"
 #include "optimizer/subselect.h"
-#include "utils/syscache.h"
+
+
+/*
+ * Node_Copy
+ *	  a macro to simplify calling of copyObject on the specified field
+ */
+#define Node_Copy(from, newnode, field) \
+	((newnode)->field = copyObject((from)->field))
+
 
 /*
  * listCopy
- *	  this copy function only copies the "lcons-cells" of the list but not
- *	  its contents. (good for list of pointers as well as list of integers).
+ *	  This copy function only copies the "cons-cells" of the list, not the
+ *	  pointed-to objects.  (Use copyObject if you want a "deep" copy.)
+ *
+ *	  We also use this function for copying lists of integers, which is
+ *	  grotty but unlikely to break --- it could fail if sizeof(pointer)
+ *	  is less than sizeof(int), but I don't know any such machines...
+ *
+ *	  Note that copyObject will surely coredump if applied to a list
+ *	  of integers!
  */
 List *
 listCopy(List *list)
 {
-	List	   *newlist = NIL;
-	List	   *l,
-			   *nl = NIL;
+	List	   *newlist,
+			   *l,
+			   *nl;
+
+	/* rather ugly coding for speed... */
+	if (list == NIL)
+		return NIL;
 
-	foreach(l, list)
+	newlist = nl = lcons(lfirst(list), NIL);
+
+	foreach(l, lnext(list))
 	{
-		if (newlist == NIL)
-			newlist = nl = lcons(lfirst(l), NIL);
-		else
-		{
-			lnext(nl) = lcons(lfirst(l), NIL);
-			nl = lnext(nl);
-		}
+		lnext(nl) = lcons(lfirst(l), NIL);
+		nl = lnext(nl);
 	}
 	return newlist;
 }
 
-/*
- * Node_Copy
- *	  a macro to simplify calling of copyObject on the specified field
- */
-#define Node_Copy(from, newnode, field) \
-	newnode->field = copyObject(from->field)
-
 /* ****************************************************************
  *					 plannodes.h copy functions
  * ****************************************************************
@@ -684,9 +692,6 @@ _copyOper(Oper *from)
 static Const *
 _copyConst(Const *from)
 {
-	static Oid	cached_type;
-	static bool cached_typbyval;
-
 	Const	   *newnode = makeNode(Const);
 
 	/* ----------------
@@ -696,92 +701,31 @@ _copyConst(Const *from)
 	newnode->consttype = from->consttype;
 	newnode->constlen = from->constlen;
 
-	/* ----------------
-	 *	XXX super cheesy hack until parser/planner
-	 *	puts in the right values here.
-	 *
-	 *	But I like cheese.
-	 * ----------------
-	 */
-	if (!from->constisnull && cached_type != from->consttype)
+	if (from->constbyval || from->constisnull)
 	{
-		HeapTuple	typeTuple;
-		Form_pg_type typeStruct;
-
-		/* ----------------
-		 *	 get the type tuple corresponding to the paramList->type,
-		 *	 If this fails, returnValue has been pre-initialized
-		 *	 to "null" so we just return it.
-		 * ----------------
-		 */
-		typeTuple = SearchSysCacheTuple(TYPOID,
-										ObjectIdGetDatum(from->consttype),
-										0, 0, 0);
-
 		/* ----------------
-		 *	 get the type length and by-value from the type tuple and
-		 *	 save the information in our one element cache.
+		 *	passed by value so just copy the datum.
+		 *	Also, don't try to copy struct when value is null!
 		 * ----------------
 		 */
-		Assert(PointerIsValid(typeTuple));
-
-		typeStruct = (Form_pg_type) GETSTRUCT(typeTuple);
-		cached_typbyval = (typeStruct)->typbyval ? true : false;
-		cached_type = from->consttype;
+		newnode->constvalue = from->constvalue;
 	}
-
-	from->constbyval = cached_typbyval;
-
-	if (!from->constisnull)
+	else
 	{
 		/* ----------------
-		 *		copying the Datum in a const node is a bit trickier
-		 *	because it might be a pointer and it might also be of
-		 *	variable length...
+		 *	not passed by value. datum contains a pointer.
 		 * ----------------
 		 */
-		if (from->constbyval == true)
-		{
-			/* ----------------
-			 *	passed by value so just copy the datum.
-			 * ----------------
-			 */
-			newnode->constvalue = from->constvalue;
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			/* ----------------
-			 *	not passed by value. datum contains a pointer.
-			 * ----------------
-			 */
-			if (from->constlen != -1)
-			{
-				/* ----------------
-				 *		fixed length structure
-				 * ----------------
-				 */
-				newnode->constvalue = PointerGetDatum(palloc(from->constlen));
-				memmove((char *) newnode->constvalue,
-						(char *) from->constvalue, from->constlen);
-			}
-			else
-			{
-				/* ----------------
-				 *		variable length structure.	here the length is stored
-				 *	in the first int pointed to by the constval.
-				 * ----------------
-				 */
-				int			length;
-
-				length = VARSIZE(from->constvalue);
-				newnode->constvalue = PointerGetDatum(palloc(length));
-				memmove((char *) newnode->constvalue,
-						(char *) from->constvalue, length);
-			}
-		}
+		int			length = from->constlen;
+
+		if (length == -1)		/* variable-length type? */
+			length = VARSIZE(from->constvalue);
+		newnode->constvalue = PointerGetDatum(palloc(length));
+		memcpy(DatumGetPointer(newnode->constvalue),
+			   DatumGetPointer(from->constvalue),
+			   length);
 	}
-	else
-		newnode->constvalue = from->constvalue;
+
 	newnode->constisnull = from->constisnull;
 	newnode->constbyval = from->constbyval;
 	newnode->constisset = from->constisset;
@@ -1646,21 +1590,19 @@ copyObject(void *from)
 		case T_List:
 			{
 				List	   *list = from,
-						   *l;
-				List	   *newlist = NIL,
-						   *nl = NIL;
+						   *l,
+						   *nl;
+
+				/* rather ugly coding for speed... */
+				/* Note the input list cannot be NIL if we got here. */
+				nl = lcons(copyObject(lfirst(list)), NIL);
+				retval = nl;
 
-				foreach(l, list)
+				foreach(l, lnext(list))
 				{
-					if (newlist == NIL)
-						newlist = nl = lcons(copyObject(lfirst(l)), NIL);
-					else
-					{
-						lnext(nl) = lcons(copyObject(lfirst(l)), NIL);
-						nl = lnext(nl);
-					}
+					lnext(nl) = lcons(copyObject(lfirst(l)), NIL);
+					nl = lnext(nl);
 				}
-				retval = newlist;
 			}
 			break;
 		default: