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diff --git a/src/include/fmgr.h b/src/include/fmgr.h
index 0491e2e1d1..cfb7b7774d 100644
--- a/src/include/fmgr.h
+++ b/src/include/fmgr.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
* or call fmgr-callable functions.
*
*
- * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2016, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2017, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* src/include/fmgr.h
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ typedef Datum (*PGFunction) (FunctionCallInfo fcinfo);
* arguments, rather than about the function itself. But it's convenient
* to store it here rather than in FunctionCallInfoData, where it might more
* logically belong.
+ *
+ * fn_extra is available for use by the called function; all other fields
+ * should be treated as read-only after the struct is created.
*/
typedef struct FmgrInfo
{
@@ -65,6 +68,11 @@ typedef struct FmgrInfo
/*
* This struct is the data actually passed to an fmgr-called function.
+ *
+ * The called function is expected to set isnull, and possibly resultinfo or
+ * fields in whatever resultinfo points to. It should not change any other
+ * fields. (In particular, scribbling on the argument arrays is a bad idea,
+ * since some callers assume they can re-call with the same arguments.)
*/
typedef struct FunctionCallInfoData
{
@@ -178,11 +186,12 @@ extern void fmgr_info_copy(FmgrInfo *dstinfo, FmgrInfo *srcinfo,
* The resulting datum can be accessed using VARSIZE_ANY() and VARDATA_ANY()
* (beware of multiple evaluations in those macros!)
*
- * WARNING: It is only safe to use pg_detoast_datum_packed() and
- * VARDATA_ANY() if you really don't care about the alignment. Either because
- * you're working with something like text where the alignment doesn't matter
- * or because you're not going to access its constituent parts and just use
- * things like memcpy on it anyways.
+ * In consumers oblivious to data alignment, call PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED(),
+ * VARDATA_ANY(), VARSIZE_ANY() and VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(). Elsewhere, call
+ * PG_DETOAST_DATUM(), VARDATA() and VARSIZE(). Directly fetching an int16,
+ * int32 or wider field in the struct representing the datum layout requires
+ * aligned data. memcpy() is alignment-oblivious, as are most operations on
+ * datatypes, such as text, whose layout struct contains only char fields.
*
* Note: it'd be nice if these could be macros, but I see no way to do that
* without evaluating the arguments multiple times, which is NOT acceptable.
@@ -243,13 +252,9 @@ extern struct varlena *pg_detoast_datum_packed(struct varlena * datum);
/* and this if you can handle 1-byte-header datums: */
#define PG_GETARG_VARLENA_PP(n) PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
/* DatumGetFoo macros for varlena types will typically look like this: */
-#define DatumGetByteaP(X) ((bytea *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
#define DatumGetByteaPP(X) ((bytea *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED(X))
-#define DatumGetTextP(X) ((text *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
#define DatumGetTextPP(X) ((text *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED(X))
-#define DatumGetBpCharP(X) ((BpChar *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
#define DatumGetBpCharPP(X) ((BpChar *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED(X))
-#define DatumGetVarCharP(X) ((VarChar *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
#define DatumGetVarCharPP(X) ((VarChar *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED(X))
#define DatumGetHeapTupleHeader(X) ((HeapTupleHeader) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
/* And we also offer variants that return an OK-to-write copy */
@@ -264,13 +269,9 @@ extern struct varlena *pg_detoast_datum_packed(struct varlena * datum);
#define DatumGetBpCharPSlice(X,m,n) ((BpChar *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM_SLICE(X,m,n))
#define DatumGetVarCharPSlice(X,m,n) ((VarChar *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM_SLICE(X,m,n))
/* GETARG macros for varlena types will typically look like this: */
-#define PG_GETARG_BYTEA_P(n) DatumGetByteaP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
#define PG_GETARG_BYTEA_PP(n) DatumGetByteaPP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
-#define PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(n) DatumGetTextP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
#define PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP(n) DatumGetTextPP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
-#define PG_GETARG_BPCHAR_P(n) DatumGetBpCharP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
#define PG_GETARG_BPCHAR_PP(n) DatumGetBpCharPP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
-#define PG_GETARG_VARCHAR_P(n) DatumGetVarCharP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
#define PG_GETARG_VARCHAR_PP(n) DatumGetVarCharPP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
#define PG_GETARG_HEAPTUPLEHEADER(n) DatumGetHeapTupleHeader(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
/* And we also offer variants that return an OK-to-write copy */
@@ -284,6 +285,21 @@ extern struct varlena *pg_detoast_datum_packed(struct varlena * datum);
#define PG_GETARG_TEXT_P_SLICE(n,a,b) DatumGetTextPSlice(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n),a,b)
#define PG_GETARG_BPCHAR_P_SLICE(n,a,b) DatumGetBpCharPSlice(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n),a,b)
#define PG_GETARG_VARCHAR_P_SLICE(n,a,b) DatumGetVarCharPSlice(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n),a,b)
+/*
+ * Obsolescent variants that guarantee INT alignment for the return value.
+ * Few operations on these particular types need alignment, mainly operations
+ * that cast the VARDATA pointer to a type like int16[]. Most code should use
+ * the ...PP(X) counterpart. Nonetheless, these appear frequently in code
+ * predating the PostgreSQL 8.3 introduction of the ...PP(X) variants.
+ */
+#define DatumGetByteaP(X) ((bytea *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
+#define DatumGetTextP(X) ((text *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
+#define DatumGetBpCharP(X) ((BpChar *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
+#define DatumGetVarCharP(X) ((VarChar *) PG_DETOAST_DATUM(X))
+#define PG_GETARG_BYTEA_P(n) DatumGetByteaP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
+#define PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(n) DatumGetTextP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
+#define PG_GETARG_BPCHAR_P(n) DatumGetBpCharP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
+#define PG_GETARG_VARCHAR_P(n) DatumGetVarCharP(PG_GETARG_DATUM(n))
/* To return a NULL do this: */
#define PG_RETURN_NULL() \
@@ -320,10 +336,10 @@ extern struct varlena *pg_detoast_datum_packed(struct varlena * datum);
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Support for detecting call convention of dynamically-loaded functions
*
- * Dynamically loaded functions may use either the version-1 ("new style")
- * or version-0 ("old style") calling convention. Version 1 is the call
- * convention defined in this header file; version 0 is the old "plain C"
- * convention. A version-1 function must be accompanied by the macro call
+ * Dynamically loaded functions currently can only use the version-1 ("new
+ * style") calling convention. Version-0 ("old style") is not supported
+ * anymore. Version 1 is the call convention defined in this header file, and
+ * must be accompanied by the macro call
*
* PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(function_name);
*
@@ -344,11 +360,18 @@ typedef const Pg_finfo_record *(*PGFInfoFunction) (void);
/*
* Macro to build an info function associated with the given function name.
- * Win32 loadable functions usually link with 'dlltool --export-all', but it
- * doesn't hurt to add PGDLLIMPORT in case they don't.
+ *
+ * As a convenience, also provide an "extern" declaration for the given
+ * function name, so that writers of C functions need not write that too.
+ *
+ * On Windows, the function and info function must be exported. Our normal
+ * build processes take care of that via .DEF files or --export-all-symbols.
+ * Module authors using a different build process might need to manually
+ * declare the function PGDLLEXPORT. We do that automatically here for the
+ * info function, since authors shouldn't need to be explicitly aware of it.
*/
#define PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(funcname) \
-Datum funcname(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS); \
+extern Datum funcname(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS); \
extern PGDLLEXPORT const Pg_finfo_record * CppConcat(pg_finfo_,funcname)(void); \
const Pg_finfo_record * \
CppConcat(pg_finfo_,funcname) (void) \
@@ -468,6 +491,19 @@ extern Datum DirectFunctionCall9Coll(PGFunction func, Oid collation,
Datum arg6, Datum arg7, Datum arg8,
Datum arg9);
+/*
+ * These functions work like the DirectFunctionCall functions except that
+ * they use the flinfo parameter to initialise the fcinfo for the call.
+ * It's recommended that the callee only use the fn_extra and fn_mcxt
+ * fields, as other fields will typically describe the calling function
+ * not the callee. Conversely, the calling function should not have
+ * used fn_extra, unless its use is known to be compatible with the callee's.
+ */
+extern Datum CallerFInfoFunctionCall1(PGFunction func, FmgrInfo *flinfo,
+ Oid collation, Datum arg1);
+extern Datum CallerFInfoFunctionCall2(PGFunction func, FmgrInfo *flinfo,
+ Oid collation, Datum arg1, Datum arg2);
+
/* These are for invocation of a previously-looked-up function with a
* directly-computed parameter list. Note that neither arguments nor result
* are allowed to be NULL.
@@ -621,7 +657,7 @@ extern bytea *OidSendFunctionCall(Oid functionId, Datum val);
/*
* Routines in fmgr.c
*/
-extern const Pg_finfo_record *fetch_finfo_record(void *filehandle, char *funcname);
+extern const Pg_finfo_record *fetch_finfo_record(void *filehandle, const char *funcname);
extern void clear_external_function_hash(void *filehandle);
extern Oid fmgr_internal_function(const char *proname);
extern Oid get_fn_expr_rettype(FmgrInfo *flinfo);
@@ -637,9 +673,9 @@ extern bool CheckFunctionValidatorAccess(Oid validatorOid, Oid functionOid);
*/
extern char *Dynamic_library_path;
-extern PGFunction load_external_function(char *filename, char *funcname,
+extern PGFunction load_external_function(const char *filename, const char *funcname,
bool signalNotFound, void **filehandle);
-extern PGFunction lookup_external_function(void *filehandle, char *funcname);
+extern PGFunction lookup_external_function(void *filehandle, const char *funcname);
extern void load_file(const char *filename, bool restricted);
extern void **find_rendezvous_variable(const char *varName);
extern Size EstimateLibraryStateSpace(void);