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+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * expandeddatum.h
+ *	  Declarations for access to "expanded" value representations.
+ *
+ * Complex data types, particularly container types such as arrays and
+ * records, usually have on-disk representations that are compact but not
+ * especially convenient to modify.  What's more, when we do modify them,
+ * having to recopy all the rest of the value can be extremely inefficient.
+ * Therefore, we provide a notion of an "expanded" representation that is used
+ * only in memory and is optimized more for computation than storage.
+ * The format appearing on disk is called the data type's "flattened"
+ * representation, since it is required to be a contiguous blob of bytes --
+ * but the type can have an expanded representation that is not.  Data types
+ * must provide means to translate an expanded representation back to
+ * flattened form.
+ *
+ * An expanded object is meant to survive across multiple operations, but
+ * not to be enormously long-lived; for example it might be a local variable
+ * in a PL/pgSQL procedure.  So its extra bulk compared to the on-disk format
+ * is a worthwhile trade-off.
+ *
+ * References to expanded objects are a type of TOAST pointer.
+ * Because of longstanding conventions in Postgres, this means that the
+ * flattened form of such an object must always be a varlena object.
+ * Fortunately that's no restriction in practice.
+ *
+ * There are actually two kinds of TOAST pointers for expanded objects:
+ * read-only and read-write pointers.  Possession of one of the latter
+ * authorizes a function to modify the value in-place rather than copying it
+ * as would normally be required.  Functions should always return a read-write
+ * pointer to any new expanded object they create.  Functions that modify an
+ * argument value in-place must take care that they do not corrupt the old
+ * value if they fail partway through.
+ *
+ *
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2020, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
+ *
+ * src/include/utils/expandeddatum.h
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+#ifndef EXPANDEDDATUM_H
+#define EXPANDEDDATUM_H
+
+/* Size of an EXTERNAL datum that contains a pointer to an expanded object */
+#define EXPANDED_POINTER_SIZE (VARHDRSZ_EXTERNAL + sizeof(varatt_expanded))
+
+/*
+ * "Methods" that must be provided for any expanded object.
+ *
+ * get_flat_size: compute space needed for flattened representation (total,
+ * including header).
+ *
+ * flatten_into: construct flattened representation in the caller-allocated
+ * space at *result, of size allocated_size (which will always be the result
+ * of a preceding get_flat_size call; it's passed for cross-checking).
+ *
+ * The flattened representation must be a valid in-line, non-compressed,
+ * 4-byte-header varlena object.
+ *
+ * Note: construction of a heap tuple from an expanded datum calls
+ * get_flat_size twice, so it's worthwhile to make sure that that doesn't
+ * incur too much overhead.
+ */
+typedef Size (*EOM_get_flat_size_method) (ExpandedObjectHeader *eohptr);
+typedef void (*EOM_flatten_into_method) (ExpandedObjectHeader *eohptr,
+										 void *result, Size allocated_size);
+
+/* Struct of function pointers for an expanded object's methods */
+typedef struct ExpandedObjectMethods
+{
+	EOM_get_flat_size_method get_flat_size;
+	EOM_flatten_into_method flatten_into;
+} ExpandedObjectMethods;
+
+/*
+ * Every expanded object must contain this header; typically the header
+ * is embedded in some larger struct that adds type-specific fields.
+ *
+ * It is presumed that the header object and all subsidiary data are stored
+ * in eoh_context, so that the object can be freed by deleting that context,
+ * or its storage lifespan can be altered by reparenting the context.
+ * (In principle the object could own additional resources, such as malloc'd
+ * storage, and use a memory context reset callback to free them upon reset or
+ * deletion of eoh_context.)
+ *
+ * We set up two TOAST pointers within the standard header, one read-write
+ * and one read-only.  This allows functions to return either kind of pointer
+ * without making an additional allocation, and in particular without worrying
+ * whether a separately palloc'd object would have sufficient lifespan.
+ * But note that these pointers are just a convenience; a pointer object
+ * appearing somewhere else would still be legal.
+ *
+ * The typedef declaration for this appears in postgres.h.
+ */
+struct ExpandedObjectHeader
+{
+	/* Phony varlena header */
+	int32		vl_len_;		/* always EOH_HEADER_MAGIC, see below */
+
+	/* Pointer to methods required for object type */
+	const ExpandedObjectMethods *eoh_methods;
+
+	/* Memory context containing this header and subsidiary data */
+	MemoryContext eoh_context;
+
+	/* Standard R/W TOAST pointer for this object is kept here */
+	char		eoh_rw_ptr[EXPANDED_POINTER_SIZE];
+
+	/* Standard R/O TOAST pointer for this object is kept here */
+	char		eoh_ro_ptr[EXPANDED_POINTER_SIZE];
+};
+
+/*
+ * Particularly for read-only functions, it is handy to be able to work with
+ * either regular "flat" varlena inputs or expanded inputs of the same data
+ * type.  To allow determining which case an argument-fetching function has
+ * returned, the first int32 of an ExpandedObjectHeader always contains -1
+ * (EOH_HEADER_MAGIC to the code).  This works since no 4-byte-header varlena
+ * could have that as its first 4 bytes.  Caution: we could not reliably tell
+ * the difference between an ExpandedObjectHeader and a short-header object
+ * with this trick.  However, it works fine if the argument fetching code
+ * always returns either a 4-byte-header flat object or an expanded object.
+ */
+#define EOH_HEADER_MAGIC (-1)
+#define VARATT_IS_EXPANDED_HEADER(PTR) \
+	(((varattrib_4b *) (PTR))->va_4byte.va_header == (uint32) EOH_HEADER_MAGIC)
+
+/*
+ * Generic support functions for expanded objects.
+ * (More of these might be worth inlining later.)
+ */
+
+#define EOHPGetRWDatum(eohptr)	PointerGetDatum((eohptr)->eoh_rw_ptr)
+#define EOHPGetRODatum(eohptr)	PointerGetDatum((eohptr)->eoh_ro_ptr)
+
+/* Does the Datum represent a writable expanded object? */
+#define DatumIsReadWriteExpandedObject(d, isnull, typlen) \
+	(((isnull) || (typlen) != -1) ? false : \
+	 VARATT_IS_EXTERNAL_EXPANDED_RW(DatumGetPointer(d)))
+
+#define MakeExpandedObjectReadOnly(d, isnull, typlen) \
+	(((isnull) || (typlen) != -1) ? (d) : \
+	 MakeExpandedObjectReadOnlyInternal(d))
+
+extern ExpandedObjectHeader *DatumGetEOHP(Datum d);
+extern void EOH_init_header(ExpandedObjectHeader *eohptr,
+							const ExpandedObjectMethods *methods,
+							MemoryContext obj_context);
+extern Size EOH_get_flat_size(ExpandedObjectHeader *eohptr);
+extern void EOH_flatten_into(ExpandedObjectHeader *eohptr,
+							 void *result, Size allocated_size);
+extern Datum MakeExpandedObjectReadOnlyInternal(Datum d);
+extern Datum TransferExpandedObject(Datum d, MemoryContext new_parent);
+extern void DeleteExpandedObject(Datum d);
+
+#endif							/* EXPANDEDDATUM_H */