Re: [PATCH] [LARGE] select * from cursor foo

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I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

> Attached patch does the above.
> 
> Notes:
> 1. Incompatible changes: CURSOR is now a keyword and may not be used as an
> identifier (tablename, etc). Otherwise, we get shift-reduce conflicts in
> grammar.
> 
> 2. Major changes: 
> 
> a) RangeTblEntry (RTE for short) instead of having two possibilities,
> subquery and non-subquery, now has a rtetype field which can be of 3
> possible states: RTE_RELATION, RTE_SUBSELECT, RTE_PORTAL). The
> type-specific structures are unionized, so where you used to have
> rte->relid, now you must do rte->u.rel.relid.
> 
> Proper way to check what is the RTE type is now checking for rte->rtetype
> instead of checking whether rte->subquery is null.
> 
> b) Similarly, RelOptInfo now has a RelOptInfoType which is an enum with 4
> states, REL_PLAIN,REL_SUBQUERY,REL_JOIN,REL_PORTAL. I did not do the
> unionization of type-specific structures. Maybe I should've if I'm going
> to get in a big change anyway.
> 
> c) There's a function PortalRun which fetches N records from portal and
> sets atEnd/atStart values properly. It replaces code duplicated in 2
> places. 
> 
> 
> How to test: 
> 
> declare foo cursor for select * from pg_class;
> 
> select * from cursor foo;
> 
> Documentation updates will be forthcoming ASAP, I just wanted to get this
> patch in queue before the freeze. Or at least making sure someone could
> look through this patch before freeze. :)
> 
> Next patch will be one to support "SELECT * FROM func(arg1,arg2)" which
> would work by creating first a special kind of portal for selection from a
> function and then setting query source to be that portal.
> 
> -alex

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