Re: UPDATE using sub selects

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: NikhilS <nikkhils(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UPDATE using sub selects
Date: 2007-04-27 01:06:28
Message-ID: 200704270106.l3R16Sa21032@momjian.us
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NikhilS wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As per discussion on -hackers, a patch which allows updates to use
> subselects is attached with this mail.
>
> As per discussion with Tom, I have adopted the following approach:
>
> * Introduce ROWEXPR_SUBLINK type for subqueries that allows multiple column
> outputs.
> * Populate the targetList with PARAM_SUBLINK entries dependent on the
> subselects.
> * Modify the targets in-place into PARAM_EXEC entries in the make_subplan
> phase.
>
> The above does not require any kluges in the targetList processing code path
> at all.
>
> UPDATEs seem to work fine using subselects with this patch. I have modified
> the update.sql regression test to include possible variations .
>
> No documentation changes are present in this patch.
> Feedback, comments appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Nikhils
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