Re: [HACKERS] Big IN() clauses etc : feature proposal

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:29:31PM +0200, PFC wrote:
> You mean the cursors'storage is in fact the same internal machinery
> as a temporary table ?

Use the source, Luke...

See tuplestore_begin_heap in backend/utils/sort/tuplestore.c and
heap_create_with_catalog in backend/catalog/heap.c. You'll find that
creating a tuplestore is far easier than creating a temp table.

Perhaps it would be worth creating a class of temporary tables that used
a tuplestore, although that would greatly limit what could be done with
that temp table.

Something else worth considering is not using the normal catalog methods
for storing information about temp tables, but hacking that together
would probably be a rather large task.
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