Add transforms feature

This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data
types and procedural languages.  As examples, there are transforms
for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python.

reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/ltree_plpython/sql/ltree_plpython.sql b/contrib/ltree_plpython/sql/ltree_plpython.sql
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+CREATE EXTENSION plpython2u;
+CREATE EXTENSION ltree_plpython2u;
+
+
+CREATE FUNCTION test1(val ltree) RETURNS int
+LANGUAGE plpythonu
+TRANSFORM FOR TYPE ltree
+AS $$
+plpy.info(repr(val))
+return len(val)
+$$;
+
+SELECT test1('aa.bb.cc'::ltree);
+
+
+CREATE FUNCTION test1n(val ltree) RETURNS int
+LANGUAGE plpython2u
+TRANSFORM FOR TYPE ltree
+AS $$
+plpy.info(repr(val))
+return len(val)
+$$;
+
+SELECT test1n('aa.bb.cc'::ltree);
+
+
+CREATE FUNCTION test2() RETURNS ltree
+LANGUAGE plpythonu
+TRANSFORM FOR TYPE ltree
+AS $$
+return ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
+$$;
+
+-- plpython to ltree is not yet implemented, so this will fail,
+-- because it will try to parse the Python list as an ltree input
+-- string.
+SELECT test2();