Re: Using EXECUTE in same manner as SELECT

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: andrew(at)pillette(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Using EXECUTE in same manner as SELECT
Date: 2004-11-06 04:59:21
Message-ID: 418C5A29.5040207@samurai.com
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Andrew Lazarus wrote:
> Is there some clear reason why I can't using EXECUTE of a PREPAREd query
> as I can a SELECT statement in CREATE TABLE AS, INSERT, FROM clause,
> sub-selects, etc.? If not, wouldn't this be a very useful change?

You can already do CREATE TABLE AS ... EXECUTE.

I agree being able to use EXECUTE in more situations would be a good
thing. Patches are welcome.

I'm not sure there's a lot of value in adding support for EXECUTE in
subqueries, since you would still need to do parsing, rewriting and
planning for the rest of the query; also, the fact that the plan for the
EXECUTE has already been generated would limit the optimizer's ability
to pullup subqueries and so forth.

-Neil

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