Re: PGSQL internals question...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PGSQL internals question...
Date: 2000-06-23 05:50:47
Message-ID: 16895.961739447@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> inside the backend, if I have a TupleTableSlot, can I find out from what
> basetable it is referring to or not?

Since it's not necessarily referring to any table at all, the general
answer is "no". Do you have a reason to assume that the slot is
holding a tuple directly fetched from disk, rather than constructed
on-the-fly?

regards, tom lane

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