Re: patch: function xmltable

2016-12-04 23:00 GMT+01:00 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:

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> 2016-12-03 16:03 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
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>> Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> > 2016-12-02 23:25 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
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>> > > This is looking much better now, but it still needs at least the
>> > > following changes.
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>> > > First, we need to fix is the per_rowset_memcxt thingy. I think the
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>> > > it's currently being used is rather ugly; it looks to me like the
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>> > > context does not belong into the XmlTableContext struct at all.
>> > > Instead, the executor code should keep the memcxt pointer in a state
>> > > struct of its own, and it should be the executor's responsibility to
>> > > change to the appropriate context before calling the table builder
>> > > functions. In particular, this means that the table context can no
>> > > longer be a void * pointer; it needs to be a struct that's defined by
>> > > the executor (probably a primnodes.h one). The void * pointer is
>> > > stashed inside that struct. Also, the "routine" pointer should not be
>> > > part of the void * struct, but of the executor's struct. So the
>> > > execQual code can switch to the memory context, and destroy it
>> > > appropriately.
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>> > > Second, we should make gram.y set a new "function type" value in the
>> > > TableExpr it creates, so that the downstream code (transformTableExpr,
>> > > ExecInitExpr, ruleutils.c) really knows that the given function is
>> > > XmlTableExpr, instead of guessing just because it's the only
>> implemented
>> > > case. Probably this "function type" is an enum (currently with a
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>> > > value TableExprTypeXml or something like that) in primnodes.
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>> > It has sense - I was not sure about it - because currently it is only
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>> > value, you mentioned it.
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>> True. This is a minor point.
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>> Are you able to do the memory context change I describe?
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> I am not sure if I understand well to your ideas - please, check attached
> patch.
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attached patch without your patch 0001

Regards

Pavel

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> Regards
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> Pavel
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