Re: delta relations in AFTER triggers

* Kevin Grittner (kgrittn@ymail.com) wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> > In essence, make the relations work like PL/pgSQL
> > variables do. If you squint a little, the new/old relation is a variable
> > from the function's point of view, and a parameter from the
> > planner/executor's point of view. It's just a variable/parameter that
> > holds a set of tuples, instead of a single Datum.
>
> I don't have to squint that hard -- I've always been comfortable
> with the definition of a table as a relation variable, and it's not
> too big a stretch to expand that to a tuplestore.  ;-)  In fact, I
> will be surprised if someone doesn't latch onto this to create a
> new "declared temporary table" that only exists within the scope of
> a compound statement (i.e., a BEGIN/END block).  You would DECLARE
> them just like you would a scalar variable in a PL, and they would
> have the same scope.
>
> I'll take a look at doing this in the next couple days, and see
> whether doing it that way is as easy as it seems on the face of it.

(not following this very closely, but saw this...)

Yes, please? :)
Thanks!
    Stephen