Re: [HACKERS] proposal: schema variables

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Gilles Darold <gilles(dot)darold(at)dalibo(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] proposal: schema variables
Date: 2018-08-11 18:46:34
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCTz_CRez3vFo_Ta_m=KtOxBGHE9+T1QG3UgRbuURfzjA@mail.gmail.com
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2018-08-11 7:39 GMT+02:00 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> Hi
>
> I am sending updated patch. It should to solve almost all Giles's and
> Peter's objections.
>
> I am not happy so executor access values of variables directly. It is most
> simple implementation - and I hope so it is good enough, but now the access
> to variables is too volatile. But it is works good enough for usability
> testing.
>
> I am thinking about some cache of used variables in ExprContext, so the
> variable in one ExprContext will look like stable - more like PLpgSQL
> variables.
>

I wrote EState based schema variable values cache, so now the variables in
queries are stable (like PARAM_EXTERN) and can be used for optimization.

Regards

Pavel

>
> Regards
>
> Pavel
>

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