Re: [HACKERS] patch: function xmltable

Pavel Stehule wrote:

> * SELECT (xmltable(..)).* + regress tests
> * compilation and regress tests without --with-libxml

Thanks.  I just realized that this is doing more work than necessary --

I think it would be simpler to have tableexpr fill a tuplestore with the
results, instead of just expecting function execution to apply
ExecEvalExpr over and over to obtain the results.  So evaluating a
tableexpr returns just the tuplestore, which function evaluation can
return as-is.  That code doesn't use the value-per-call interface
anyway.

I also realized that the expr context callback is not called if there's
an error, which leaves us without shutting down libxml properly.  I
added PG_TRY around the fetchrow calls, but I'm not sure that's correct
either, because there could be an error raised in other parts of the
code, after we've already emitted a few rows (for example out of
memory).  I think the right way is to have PG_TRY around the execution
of the whole thing rather than just row at a time; and the tuplestore
mechanism helps us with that.

I think it would be good to have a more complex test case in regress --
let's say there is a table with some simple XML values, then we use
XMLFOREST (or maybe one of the table_to_xml functions) to generate a
large document, and then XMLTABLE uses that document as input document.

Please fix.

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