Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl
Date: 1999-11-30 01:21:22
Message-ID: 19991130102122U.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> > Tom, I remember you are going to enhance the function manager to allow
> > functions to return set of rows.
>
> Moi? I don't recall saying any such thing. Jan sounded like he had
> some ideas about how to do it, but my ambitions for fmgr don't go
> further than cleaning up NULL handling and fixing its portability
> problems. I have too many other things to do...

Sorry for the confusion.

> > If this is possible, it should be very easy to implement the virtual
> > tables.
>
> It would indeed provide a nice way of defining virtual tables --- just
> make a function that returns the current table contents on-demand.

Anyway, it seems you already have an idea how to implement virtual
tables without modifying the fmgr. Can you tell me about that?
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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