Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
>
>>>I'm afraid though that after 2 or so days heading down the last path you
>>>suggested (namely making a new jointree leaf node) I was having trouble,
>>>and at the same time came to the conclusion that adding a new RTE was
>>>alot cleaner and made more sense to me. So I'm hoping you won't want to
>>>send me back to the drawing board again. I believe I have cleaned up the
>>>things you objected to:
>
>
> I was just objecting to having both a new RTE type and a new jointree
> node type --- you only need one or the other.  Opting for the new RTE
> type is fine with me, and it probably is a bit cleaner at the end of
> the day.

Great!

> I still dislike the way you're doing things in the executor though.
> I don't see the point of using the execScan.c machinery; most of the
> time that'll be useless overhead.  As I said before, I think the right
> direction here is to split Result into two single-purpose node types
> and make the non-filter version capable of taking a list of targetlists.

OK.

> As far as reducing memory use goes, it seems to me that there's no need
> for the individual "targetlists" to have ResTarget/TargetEntry
> decoration.  For the simple case where the expressions are just Const
> nodes, this could save something like a third of the space (there's also
> a List node per item, which we can't do much about).  I think we'd have
> to gin up a fake targetlist to attach to the Plan node, but there'd be
> only one.

OK, I'll take a look at that (actually I was just in that general
vicinity anyway).

> Since the result-node split is my hot button, I'm willing to volunteer
> to make it happen.  Do you want to concentrate on the remaining
> parser-area issues and leave the executor part to me?
>

Sure, sounds good to me.

Joe