Re: How to share the result data of separated plan

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>
Cc: Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to share the result data of separated plan
Date: 2010-11-07 18:08:18
Message-ID: 17509.1289153298@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi> writes:
> On 2010-11-07 6:23 PM +0200, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Um ... why? I thought the whole point of breaking out ModifyTable
>> as a separate node type was so that a query involving writeable CTEs
>> would still be just one plan tree.

> We tried that for 9.0 and it didn't work. Almost all work for 9.1 has
> been spent on creating an infrastructure for running the executor
> separately for every WITH list element when wCTEs are present.

I guess I shoulda been paying closer attention :-(. That really, really
seems like fundamentally the wrong direction. What was it that was
unfixable about the other way? If it is unfixable, should we revert
ModifyTable?

regards, tom lane

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