Re: delta relations in AFTER triggers

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Amit Khandekar <amit(dot)khandekar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: delta relations in AFTER triggers
Date: 2014-09-25 01:58:32
Message-ID: 542376C8.5070000@2ndquadrant.com
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On 08/28/2014 05:03 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I don't have to squint that hard -- I've always been comfortable
> with the definition of a table as a relation variable, and it's not
> too big a stretch to expand that to a tuplestore. ;-) In fact, I
> will be surprised if someone doesn't latch onto this to create a
> new "declared temporary table" that only exists within the scope of
> a compound statement (i.e., a BEGIN/END block). You would DECLARE
> them just like you would a scalar variable in a PL, and they would
> have the same scope.
>
> I'll take a look at doing this in the next couple days, and see
> whether doing it that way is as easy as it seems on the face of it.

Oracle's TABLE variables in PL/SQL are quite similar; it might be worth
observing how they work for comparison.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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