Re: delta relations in AFTER triggers

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Khandekar <amit(dot)khandekar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: delta relations in AFTER triggers
Date: 2014-09-23 17:03:06
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYeB0iFaHfFMthRb-rD4RoyGZrmPwU9-+k1W4U1BoNeSg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
> On 09/15/2014 05:25 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Now, how do we make the tuplestores work similarly? Here's what I think we
> should do:
>
> Add a new p_tableref_hook function pointer, similar to p_paramref_hook.
> Whenever the parser sees a RangeVar that it doesn't recognize (or actually,
> I think it should call it *before* resolving regular tables, but let's
> ignore that for now), it calls the p_tableref_hook. It can return a new
> RelationParam node (similar to regular Param), which contains a numeric ID
> for the table/tuplestore, as well as its tuple descriptor.
>
> For the execution phase, add a new array of Tuplestorestates to
> ParamListInfo. Similar to the existing array of ParamExternalDatas.

I haven't been following this issue closely, but this sounds like a
really nice design.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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