Re: Changing the result of ExecutorRun

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> * Return the count of tuples processed, probably as a long since that's
>> what the input limit-count is.  There are potential overflow issues with
>> this definition on 32-bit machines, though that's not going to affect
>> functions.c since it passes a limit of 1 tuple in the cases where it
>> needs to examine the result, and no one else presently cares at all.
>> But the possibility of overflow might limit the usefulness of this
>> definition in other scenarios.

> And what would that mean for a cursor which was read forward and backward?

Nothing really; the cursor code does its own counting.

Hmm ... now that I look at it, there is already a counter
estate->es_processed, so there's really no reason for ExecutorRun to
return anything at all.

es_processed is only uint32, so someday we might want to widen it, but
I think it's not important in current usage.  In any case that'd be
orthogonal to this discussion.
        regards, tom lane