Re: lazy detoasting

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:34 AM, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> wrote:
> On 04/10/2018 04:03 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>> I suspect you want, or maybe need, to use the same snapshot as the
>> scan that retrieved the tuple containing the toasted datum.
>
> I'm sure it's worth more than that, but I don't know if it's
> implementable.
>
> If I'm a function, and the datum came to me as a parameter, I may
> have no way to determine what snapshot the enclosing query used to
> obtain the thing passed to me.
>

Before query execution, we push the active snapshot, so any time
during execution, if you get the active snapshot via
GetActiveSnapshot(), you can access it.  So, I think during a function
execution, if you use GetActiveSnapshot, you should get the snapshot
used by enclosing query.

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Amit Kapila.
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