SQL/JSON: support the IS JSON predicate

This patch introduces the SQL standard IS JSON predicate. It operates
on text and bytea values representing JSON, as well as on the json and
jsonb types. Each test has IS and IS NOT variants and supports a WITH
UNIQUE KEYS flag. The tests are:

IS JSON [VALUE]
IS JSON ARRAY
IS JSON OBJECT
IS JSON SCALAR

These should be self-explanatory.

The WITH UNIQUE KEYS flag makes these return false when duplicate keys
exist in any object within the value, not necessarily directly contained
in the outermost object.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <[email protected]>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <[email protected]>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <[email protected]>
Author: Amit Langote <[email protected]>
Author: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby.

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1 files changed, 76 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
index 737b479f541..4c99dd1dec3 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
+++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ static Node *transformJsonArrayQueryConstructor(ParseState *pstate,
 												JsonArrayQueryConstructor *ctor);
 static Node *transformJsonObjectAgg(ParseState *pstate, JsonObjectAgg *agg);
 static Node *transformJsonArrayAgg(ParseState *pstate, JsonArrayAgg *agg);
+static Node *transformJsonIsPredicate(ParseState *pstate, JsonIsPredicate *p);
 static Node *make_row_comparison_op(ParseState *pstate, List *opname,
 									List *largs, List *rargs, int location);
 static Node *make_row_distinct_op(ParseState *pstate, List *opname,
@@ -325,6 +326,10 @@ transformExprRecurse(ParseState *pstate, Node *expr)
 			result = transformJsonArrayAgg(pstate, (JsonArrayAgg *) expr);
 			break;
 
+		case T_JsonIsPredicate:
+			result = transformJsonIsPredicate(pstate, (JsonIsPredicate *) expr);
+			break;
+
 		default:
 			/* should not reach here */
 			elog(ERROR, "unrecognized node type: %d", (int) nodeTag(expr));
@@ -3818,3 +3823,74 @@ transformJsonArrayConstructor(ParseState *pstate, JsonArrayConstructor *ctor)
 								   returning, false, ctor->absent_on_null,
 								   ctor->location);
 }
+
+static Node *
+transformJsonParseArg(ParseState *pstate, Node *jsexpr, JsonFormat *format,
+					  Oid *exprtype)
+{
+	Node	   *raw_expr = transformExprRecurse(pstate, jsexpr);
+	Node	   *expr = raw_expr;
+
+	*exprtype = exprType(expr);
+
+	/* prepare input document */
+	if (*exprtype == BYTEAOID)
+	{
+		JsonValueExpr *jve;
+
+		expr = makeCaseTestExpr(raw_expr);
+		expr = makeJsonByteaToTextConversion(expr, format, exprLocation(expr));
+		*exprtype = TEXTOID;
+
+		jve = makeJsonValueExpr((Expr *) raw_expr, format);
+
+		jve->formatted_expr = (Expr *) expr;
+		expr = (Node *) jve;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		char		typcategory;
+		bool		typispreferred;
+
+		get_type_category_preferred(*exprtype, &typcategory, &typispreferred);
+
+		if (*exprtype == UNKNOWNOID || typcategory == TYPCATEGORY_STRING)
+		{
+			expr = coerce_to_target_type(pstate, (Node *) expr, *exprtype,
+										 TEXTOID, -1,
+										 COERCION_IMPLICIT,
+										 COERCE_IMPLICIT_CAST, -1);
+			*exprtype = TEXTOID;
+		}
+
+		if (format->encoding != JS_ENC_DEFAULT)
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+					 parser_errposition(pstate, format->location),
+					 errmsg("cannot use JSON FORMAT ENCODING clause for non-bytea input types")));
+	}
+
+	return expr;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Transform IS JSON predicate.
+ */
+static Node *
+transformJsonIsPredicate(ParseState *pstate, JsonIsPredicate *pred)
+{
+	Oid			exprtype;
+	Node	   *expr = transformJsonParseArg(pstate, pred->expr, pred->format,
+											 &exprtype);
+
+	/* make resulting expression */
+	if (exprtype != TEXTOID && exprtype != JSONOID && exprtype != JSONBOID)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH),
+				 errmsg("cannot use type %s in IS JSON predicate",
+						format_type_be(exprtype))));
+
+	/* This intentionally(?) drops the format clause. */
+	return makeJsonIsPredicate(expr, NULL, pred->item_type,
+							   pred->unique_keys, pred->location);
+}