From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: patch: function xmltable |
Date: | 2016-12-04 22:00:17 |
Message-ID: | CAFj8pRDJ-djtq1NbtyACp4wZxcSix7H-hkk+W6r=rG+yMO8y+w@mail.gmail.com |
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2016-12-03 16:03 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
> > 2016-12-02 23:25 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
>
> > > This is looking much better now, but it still needs at least the
> > > following changes.
> > >
> > > First, we need to fix is the per_rowset_memcxt thingy. I think the way
> > > it's currently being used is rather ugly; it looks to me like the
> memory
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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
> single
> > > value TableExprTypeXml or something like that) in primnodes.
> >
> > It has sense - I was not sure about it - because currently it is only one
> > value, you mentioned it.
>
> True. This is a minor point.
>
> Are you able to do the memory context change I describe?
>
I am not sure if I understand well to your ideas - please, check attached
patch.
Regards
Pavel
>
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>
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xmltable-18.patch | text/x-patch | 174.1 KB |
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