From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:59:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix pg_get_ruledef() so that negative numeric constants are parenthesized.
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Fix pg_get_ruledef() so that negative numeric constants are parenthesized.
This is needed because :: casting binds more tightly than minus, so for
example -1::integer is not the same as (-1)::integer, and there are cases
where the difference is important.  In particular this caused a failure
in SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY ... where expressions that should have
matched were seen as different by the parser; but I suspect that there
could be other cases where failure to parenthesize leads to subtler
semantic differences in reloaded rules.  Per report from Alexandr Popov.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
index 4393f91c41f..3754b4981ed 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c,v 1.274 2008/05/12 00:00:51 alvherre Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c,v 1.275 2008/06/06 17:59:29 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -4479,10 +4479,19 @@ get_const_expr(Const *constval, deparse_context *context, int showtype)
 				 *
 				 * In reality we only need to defend against infinity and NaN,
 				 * so we need not get too crazy about pattern matching here.
+				 *
+				 * There is a special-case gotcha: if the constant is signed,
+				 * we need to parenthesize it, else the parser might see a
+				 * leading plus/minus as binding less tightly than adjacent
+				 * operators --- particularly, the cast that we might attach
+				 * below.
 				 */
 				if (strspn(extval, "0123456789+-eE.") == strlen(extval))
 				{
-					appendStringInfoString(buf, extval);
+					if (extval[0] == '+' || extval[0] == '-')
+						appendStringInfo(buf, "(%s)", extval);
+					else
+						appendStringInfoString(buf, extval);
 					if (strcspn(extval, "eE.") != strlen(extval))
 						isfloat = true; /* it looks like a float */
 				}