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Composite type result #1560

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@NotGyro NotGyro commented Feb 17, 2024

This set of changes allows #[pg-extern] functions to return Result<composite_type!(..), E>. To get it working, I've added another type-specific case to match statements in UsedType::new(). That case then calls fn resolve_result_inner(), which I wrote for this purpose.

This is intended to resolve #1470.

Future work

  • Although I've tested this behavior by hand and confirmed it's working correctly, I haven't yet written a test case for this code path. If you'd prefer me to put that in this PR, request changes and I'll take care of it. Otherwise, I'll open an issue for it shortly.
  • Rename ErrorReportable::report() to avoid collision with std's Termination::report() #1561 : While working on this implementation, I ran into a naming ambiguity. Specifically, pgrx::pg_sys::panics::ErrorReportable::report() looks an awful lot like std::process::Termination::report(), and they are both traits that are implemented on Result<T, E> so if you import both traits you'll have a name collision. I spoke to @workingjubilee about this and she agreed it should be renamed to unwrap_or_report() as part of the breaking changes in 0.12.

A note on something esoteric

A note on something that was difficult to dig up answers to: Some concerns surrounding correctness jumped out at me while I was looking at macro expansions for this pull request. In the generated UsedTypeEntity, ty_source and full_path were definitely correct, but for a Result<T, E> the ty_id is core::any::TypeId::of<T>, whereas for Option<T> the macro expands to core::any::TypeId::of<Option<T>>. I asked around, and after some thinking on the part of our senior engineers it looks like this is actually correct. This type information is used to communicate to Postgres, and while Option<T> is used as the Rust equivalent to translate to and from nullable Postgres types, so the Option behavior is special, whereas Postgres doesn't have a concept of a Result type and so translating Result<T> will either give Postgres an instance of T or an exit code and an error message.

I just thought I'd clarify that to make sure my reasoning on the correctness of this code is written down.

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if let Some(first_ty) = path_arg.args.first() {
// Since `pub type Result<T> = std::error::Result<T, OurError>
// is a common pattern,
// we should support single-argument Result<T> style.
if path_arg.args.len() == 1 {
(first_ty.clone(), None)
}
else if path_arg.args.len() == 2 {
(first_ty.clone(), Some(path_arg.args[1].clone()))
}
else {
return Err(syn::Error::new(
last.arguments.span(),
"Result<..> with more than two type arguments not supported.",
));
}
}
else {
// Return early, Result<> with no type args.
return Err(syn::Error::new(
last.arguments.span(),
"Cannot return a Result without type generic arguments.",
));
}
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Can this just be

let mut iter = args.iter();
match (iter.next(), iter.next(), iter.next()) {

So that we can have the compiler check that we're exhaustively handling all cases we want to handle, and we don't have the problem of trying to track whether the indexing we do later is correct? Seeing .first() and then first_ty and then [1] is lexically confusing.

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Sadly, syn doesn't expose a slice type here, so we can't just

match &slice_of_generic_args {
    [a, b, c, ..] => return Err(..),
    [a, b] => { /* code */ },
    [a] => { /* code */ },
    [] => return Err(..),
}

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This should be cleaner now, let me know if the new implementation fits.

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Also, can you rebase this on develop? It has a lot of merge commits that will go away, I think, when I push squash, but it weirds me out.

@NotGyro NotGyro force-pushed the composite-type-result branch from b2555d0 to 04bd34e Compare February 19, 2024 19:31
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NotGyro commented Feb 19, 2024

Also, can you rebase this on develop? It has a lot of merge commits that will go away, I think, when I push squash, but it weirds me out.

I've rebased it now, the diff should be cleaner.

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Thank you!

@workingjubilee workingjubilee merged commit a184179 into pgcentralfoundation:develop Feb 19, 2024
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Welcome to pgrx 0.12.0-alpha.1!

Say the magic words with me!

```shell
cargo install cargo-pgrx --locked --version 0.12.0-alpha.1
```

# Breaking Changes

## No more dlopen!

Perhaps the most exciting change this round is @usamoi's contribution in
#1468 which means that
we no longer perform a `dlopen` in order to generate the schema. The
cost, such as it is, is that your pgrx extensions now require a
`src/bin/pgrx_embed.rs`, which will be used to generate the schema. This
has much less cross-platform issues and will enable supporting things
like `cargo binstall` down the line.

It may be a bit touchy on first-time setup for transitioning older
repos. If necessary, you may have to directly add a
`src/bin/pgrx_embed.rs` and add the following code (which should be the
only code in the file, though you can add comments if you like?):

```rust
::pgrx::pgrx_embed!();
```

Your Cargo.toml will also want to update its crate-type key for the
library:
```toml
[lib]
crate-type = ["cdylib", "lib"]
```

## Library Code

- pgrx-pg-sys will now use `ManuallyDropUnion` thanks to @NotGyro in
#1547
- VARHDRSZ `const`s are no longer `fn`, thanks to @workingjubilee in
#1584
- We no longer have `Interval::is_finite` since
#1594
- We translate more `*_tree_walker` functions to the same signature
their `*_impl` version in Postgres 16 has:
#1596
- Thanks to @eeeebbbbrrrr in
#1591 we no longer have
the `pg_sql_graph_magic!()` macro, which should help with more things in
the future!

# What's New

We have quite a lot of useful additions to our API:

- `SpiClient::prepare_mut` was added thanks to @XeniaLu in
#1275
- @usamoi also contributed bindings subscripting code in
#1562
- For `#[pg_test]`, you have been able to use `#[should_panic(expected =
"string")]` to anticipate a panic that contains that string in that
test. For various reasons, `#[pg_test(error = "string")]` is much the
same. Now, you can also use `#[pg_test(expected = "string")]`, in the
hopes that is easier to stumble across, as of
#1570

## `Result<composite_type!("..."), E>` support

- In #1560 @NotGyro
contributed support for using `Result<composite_type!("Name"), E>`, as a
case that had not been handled before.

## Significantly expanded docs
Thanks to @rjuju, @NotGyro, and @workingjubilee, we now have
significantly expanded docs for cargo-pgrx and pgrx in general. Some of
these are in the API docs on https://docs.rs or the READMEs, but there's
also a guide, now! It's not currently published, but is available as an
[mdbook](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) in the repo.

Some diagnostic information that is also arguably documentation, like
comments and the suggestion to `cargo install`, have also been improved,
thanks to @workingjubilee in
- #1579
- #1573

## `#[pg_cast]`

An experimental macro for a `CREATE CAST` was contributed by @xwkuang5
in #1445!

## Legal Stuff

Thanks to @the-kenny in
#1490 and
@workingjubilee in
#1504, it was brought to
our attention that some dependencies had unusual legal requirements. So
we fixed this with CI! We now check our code included into pgrx-using
binaries is MIT/Apache 2.0 licensed, as is common across crates.io,
using `cargo deny`!. The build tools will have more flexible legal
requirements (partly due to the use of Mozilla Public License code in
rustls).

# Internal Changes
Many internal cleanups were done thanks to
- @workingjubilee in too many PRs to count!
- @thomcc found a needless condition in
#1501
- @nyurik in too many PRs to count!

In particular:
- we now actually `pfree` our `Array`s we detoasted as-of
#1571
- creating a `RawArray` is now low-overhead due to
#1587

## Soundness Fixes
We had a number of soundness issues uncovered or have added more tests
to catch them.
- Bounds-checking debug assertions for array access by @NotGyro in
#1514
- Fix unsound `&` and `&mut` in `fcinfo.rs` by @workingjubilee in
#1595

## Less Deps
Part of the cleanup by @workingjubilee was reducing the number of deps
we compile:
* cargo-pgrx: reduce trivial dep usages in
#1499
* Update 2 syn in #1557

Hopefully it will reduce compile time and disk usage!

## New Contributors
* @the-kenny made their first contribution in
#1490
* @xwkuang5 made their first contribution in
#1445
* @rjuju made their first contribution in
#1516
* @nyurik made their first contribution in
#1533
* @NotGyro made their first contribution in
#1514
* @XeniaLu made their first contribution in
#1275

**Full Changelog**:
v0.12.0-alpha.0...v0.12.0-alpha.1
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