Re: [PATCHES] 8.2 features?

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chris(dot)kings-lynne(at)calorieking(dot)com>, "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Susanne Ebrecht <susanne(dot)ebrecht(at)credativ(dot)de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] 8.2 features?
Date: 2006-07-21 03:09:47
Message-ID: 44C0457B.1010303@joeconway.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> No, I guess I confused you by talking about the executor representation
> at the same time. This is really unrelated to the executor. The join
> tree I'm thinking of here is the data structure that dangles off
> Query.jointree --- it's a representation of the query's FROM clause,
> and (at present) can contain RangeTblRef, FromExpr, and JoinExpr nodes.
> See the last hundred or so lines of primnodes.h for some details.
> The jointree is used by the planner to compute the plan node tree that
> the executor will run, but it's not the same thing.

Ah, that helps. Thanks for the explanation. I'll start digging in again...

Thanks,

Joe

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