Re: Accessing original TupleDesc from SRF

John Gray <jgray(at)azuli(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> Please correct me if I've got this wrong, but it appears from the SRF
> API, that a SRF cannot readily refer to the TupleDesc to which it is
> expected to conform (i.e. the TupleDesc derived from the FROM clause of
> an original SELECT statement) because that is held in the executor state
> and not copied or linked into the function context.

> The reason I'm interested (and this might be a crazy idea) is that a
> function might choose to adapt its output based on what it is asked for.

Seems like a cool idea.

We could fairly readily add a field to ReturnSetInfo, but that would
only be available to functions defined as returning a set. That'd
probably cover most useful cases but it still seems a bit unclean.

I suppose that ExecMakeTableFunctionResult could be changed to *always*
pass ReturnSetInfo, even if it's not expecting the function to return
a set. That seems even less clean; but it would work, at least in the
current implementation.

Anyone have a better idea?

regards, tom lane