Re: Writeable CTEs and empty relations

On 2010-02-08 21:30 +0200, I wrote:
> This doesn't exactly work anymore since we modify the snapshot after
> calling ExecInitScan(). I'm not really familiar with this part of the
> code, so I'm asking: is there a simple enough way around this? Would
> updating scan->rs_nblocks before scanning the first tuple be OK?

I've looked at this some more, and the problem is a lot bigger than I
originally thought. We'd basically be forced to do another initscan()
before starting a new scan after the snapshot changed. One way to
accomplish this would be that ExecutePlan() would leave a flag in EState
whenever the scan nodes need to reinit.

Does this sound completely unacceptable?

Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja