Fwd: What do these terms mean in the SOURCE CODE?

From: Vaibhav Kaushal <vaibhavkaushal123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Fwd: What do these terms mean in the SOURCE CODE?
Date: 2010-11-20 03:51:33
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Is no one ready to help on this? :(

-Vaibhav
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From: Vaibhav Kaushal <vaibhavkaushal123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Date: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Subject: What do these terms mean in the SOURCE CODE?
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org

I am going through the Executor code and come across the following terms
quite often. Can someone tell me what do they mean (in a few (may be a
couple of) sentences)?

1. Scan State
2. Plan State
3. Tuple Projection
4. EState
5. Qual
6. Expression

They sound quite ambiguous in the source code, specially when some of them
already have terms which have multiple meanings.

Thanks for your time.

-Vaibhav (*_*)

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