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Tom Lane e136a0d8ca Restore json{b}_populate_record{set}'s ability to take type info from AS.
If the record argument is NULL and has no declared type more concrete
than RECORD, we can't extract useful information about the desired
rowtype from it.  In this case, see if we're in FROM with an AS clause,
and if so extract the needed rowtype info from AS.

It worked like this before v11, but commit 37a795a60 removed the
behavior, reasoning that it was undocumented, inefficient, and utterly
not self-consistent.  If you want to take type info from an AS clause,
you should be using the json_to_record() family of functions not the
json_populate_record() family.  Also, it was already the case that
the "populate" functions would fail for a null-valued RECORD input
(with an unfriendly "record type has not been registered" error)
when there wasn't an AS clause at hand, and it wasn't obvious that
that behavior wasn't OK when there was one.  However, it emerges
that some people were depending on this to work, and indeed the
rather off-point error message you got if you left off AS encouraged
slapping on AS without switching to the json_to_record() family.

Hence, put back the fallback behavior of looking for AS.  While at it,
improve the run-time error you get when there's no place to obtain type
info; we can do a lot better than "record type has not been registered".
(We can't, unfortunately, easily improve the parse-time error message
that leads people down this path in the first place.)

While at it, I refactored the code a bit to avoid duplicating the
same logic in several different places.

Per bug #15940 from Jaroslav Sivy.  Back-patch to v11 where the
current coding came in.  (The pre-v11 deficiencies in this area
aren't regressions, so we'll leave those branches alone.)

Patch by me, based on preliminary analysis by Dmitry Dolgov.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15940-2ab76dc58ffb85b6@postgresql.org
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PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure