Re: WIP patch: convert SQL-language functions to return tuplestores

From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Dimitri Fontaine" <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP patch: convert SQL-language functions to return tuplestores
Date: 2008-10-31 13:45:56
Message-ID: 162867790810310645x432c4144p5fcfdb3313e8f659@mail.gmail.com
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2008/10/31 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> RETURN QUERY should be implemented for lazy execution model. And it
>> should be fast and not to much dificult.
>
> Really? Consider what happens if it's inside a loop, or an exception
> block, or any other nesting construct.
>

true, I forgot, RETURN QUERY shouldn't be last statement. But when we have some

RETURN FINAL QUERY, I believe so it should be possible - we only
should to call plpgsql in two modes - standard and result of final
query.

regards
Pavel Stehule

> regards, tom lane
>

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