On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> So we really need some refactoring here. I dislike adding another
> fundamental step to the ExecutorStart/ExecutorRun/ExecutorEnd sequence,
> but there may not be a better way. The only way I see to fix this
> without changing that API is to have ExecutorRun do the cleanup
> processing just after the top plan node returns a null tuple, and that
> seems a bit ugly as well.
>
How would that handle the case of a cursor which isn't read to
completion? Should it still execute the CTEs to completion?
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greg