Re: execution of nested loop joins

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:14:02PM +0530, Esha Palta wrote:
> ExecQual evaluates join conditions one at a time.It captures one
> condition and passes it to function ExecEvalExpr which is actually a
> macro that invokes another function evalfunc(a method of ExprState
> structure).

It's not a "method" of the ExprState structure in the way object
oriented people might think. It's a function pointer that is set to the
function PostgreSQL wants to use to evaluate the expression. It's of
type:

typedef Datum (*ExprStateEvalFunc) (ExprState *expression,                ExprContext *econtext,                bool
*isNull,               ExprDoneCond *isDone); 

It's more like a virtual method where whoever created the structure
decides which method to use. the actual function called will probably
be one of the ones in backend/executor/execQual.c. Object-orientation
for C.

> I am not getting implementation and use of this evalfunc function. Is
> this function used to evaluate the join condition or not. If yes, then
> how it does this.

It does, using one of the defined expression evaluation functions.

Hope this helps,
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