Remove broken code that tried to handle OVERLAPS with a single argument.

The SQL standard says that OVERLAPS should have a two-element row
constructor on each side.  The original coding of OVERLAPS support in
our grammar attempted to extend that by allowing a single-element row
constructor, which it internally duplicated ... or tried to, anyway.
But that code has certainly not worked since our List infrastructure was
rewritten in 2004, and I'm none too sure it worked before that.  As it
stands, it ends up building a List that includes itself, leading to
assorted undesirable behaviors later in the parser.

Even if it worked as intended, it'd be a bit evil because of the
possibility of duplicate evaluation of a volatile function that the user
had written only once.  Given the lack of documentation, test cases, or
complaints, let's just get rid of the idea and only support the standard
syntax.

While we're at it, improve the error cursor positioning for the
wrong-number-of-arguments errors, and inline the makeOverlaps() function
since it's only called in one place anyway.

Per bug #9227 from Joshua Yanovski.  Initial patch by Joshua Yanovski,
extended a bit by me.

diff --git a/src/backend/parser/gram.y b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
index 74c50bf6b071c3e5a15e3e642dff2cca7cc9be4c..c05a19ba5a123924d7948264f9d2e7b8f4dfd6bf 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ static Node *makeBitStringConst(char *str, int location);
 static Node *makeNullAConst(int location);
 static Node *makeAConst(Value *v, int location);
 static Node *makeBoolAConst(bool state, int location);
-static FuncCall *makeOverlaps(List *largs, List *rargs, int location);
 static void check_qualified_name(List *names);
 static List *check_func_name(List *names);
 static List *check_indirection(List *indirection);
@@ -8393,7 +8392,25 @@ a_expr:          c_expr                                                                  { $$ = $1; }
                                }
                        | row OVERLAPS row
                                {
-                                       $$ = (Node *)makeOverlaps($1, $3, @2);
+                                       FuncCall *n = makeNode(FuncCall);
+                                       n->funcname = SystemFuncName("overlaps");
+                                       if (list_length($1) != 2)
+                                               ereport(ERROR,
+                                                               (errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
+                                                                errmsg("wrong number of parameters on left side of OVERLAPS expression"),
+                                                                scanner_errposition(@1)));
+                                       if (list_length($3) != 2)
+                                               ereport(ERROR,
+                                                               (errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
+                                                                errmsg("wrong number of parameters on right side of OVERLAPS expression"),
+                                                                scanner_errposition(@3)));
+                                       n->args = list_concat($1, $3);
+                                       n->agg_star = FALSE;
+                                       n->agg_distinct = FALSE;
+                                       n->func_variadic = FALSE;
+                                       n->over = NULL;
+                                       n->location = @2;
+                                       $$ = (Node *)n;
                                }
                        | a_expr IS TRUE_P
                                {
@@ -10762,38 +10779,6 @@ makeBoolAConst(bool state, int location)
        return makeTypeCast((Node *)n, SystemTypeName("bool"), -1);
 }
 
-/* makeOverlaps()
- * Create and populate a FuncCall node to support the OVERLAPS operator.
- */
-static FuncCall *
-makeOverlaps(List *largs, List *rargs, int location)
-{
-       FuncCall *n = makeNode(FuncCall);
-
-       n->funcname = SystemFuncName("overlaps");
-       if (list_length(largs) == 1)
-               largs = lappend(largs, largs);
-       else if (list_length(largs) != 2)
-               ereport(ERROR,
-                               (errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
-                                errmsg("wrong number of parameters on left side of OVERLAPS expression"),
-                                scanner_errposition(location)));
-       if (list_length(rargs) == 1)
-               rargs = lappend(rargs, rargs);
-       else if (list_length(rargs) != 2)
-               ereport(ERROR,
-                               (errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
-                                errmsg("wrong number of parameters on right side of OVERLAPS expression"),
-                                scanner_errposition(location)));
-       n->args = list_concat(largs, rargs);
-       n->agg_star = FALSE;
-       n->agg_distinct = FALSE;
-       n->func_variadic = FALSE;
-       n->over = NULL;
-       n->location = location;
-       return n;
-}
-
 /* check_qualified_name --- check the result of qualified_name production
  *
  * It's easiest to let the grammar production for qualified_name allow