Re: More on cursors in 7.3

From: "Jeroen T(dot) Vermeulen" <jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: More on cursors in 7.3
Date: 2002-12-08 22:58:14
Message-ID: 20021208225814.GH68172@xs4all.nl
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:28:22PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Well, you could dig through backend/executor/node*.c and see which of
> the node types pay attention to es_direction. To a first approximation
> it looks like these do:

I'll be honest with you: I don't know much about the internals and this
is pure Greek to me... And I never was much good at Greek in school.

> although I have not thought about which other upper plan nodes might be
> okay (ie, they're safe if their input nodes are). Also, a Material or
> Sort node will hide any direction-unsafety in its input.

More Greek, I'm afraid. :-(

Jeroen

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