Creating a Pseudocolumn

Hey everyone,

I'm reworking hierarchical queries and am adding a LEVEL pseudocolumn.
As it's a totally calculated attribute, what's the best way to handle
it keeping in mind that LEVEL is only used in a hierarchical query?

Looking at Evgen's patches, if he recognizes a hierarchical query and
finds a LEVEL column in the target list, he creates a FakeVar (similar
to Var) entry for it which is then passed throughout the system and
modified on a per-tuple basis. While this works, it seems a bit
kludgy and requires a good amount of special-case code. As such, I
was wondering if you guys have some suggestions on how to use what's
already there to accomplish the same thing.

I couldn't think of any pseudocolumns like this in PostgreSQL, but I
may just be brain-dead again. As it may be sorta similar, how were we
discussing handling rownum?

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