Re: Backend-internal SPI operations

From: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Mark Hollomon <mhh(at)nortelnetworks(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backend-internal SPI operations
Date: 2000-09-01 22:19:01
Message-ID: 200009012219.RAA19757@jupiter.jw.home
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Jan Wieck writes:
>
> > Hmmm, don't know what you mean with that.
>
> If I define a view
>
> CREATE my_view AS SELECT a, b, c FROM my_table;
>
> and then do
>
> SELECT * FROM my_view;
>
> then it becomes
>
> SELECT * FROM (SELECT a, b, c FROM my_table);
>
> which would presumably be possible with the new query-tree.

Hmm - too simple - real life is harder. So to what do you
expand the query

SELECT a, c, d FROM my_view, other_table
WHERE my_view.a = other_table.a
AND other_table.x = 'foo';

And then have a little more complex "my_view", maybe a join
with it's own WHERE clause.

Jan

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