Re: patch: function xmltable

Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2017-01-24 21:38 GMT+01:00 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>:

> > I think it would be good to have a more complex test case in regress --
> > let's say there is a table with some simple XML values, then we use
> > XMLFOREST (or maybe one of the table_to_xml functions) to generate a
> > large document, and then XMLTABLE uses that document as input document.
> 
> I have a 16K lines long real XML 6.MB. Probably we would not to append it
> to regress tests.
> 
> It is really fast - original customer implementation 20min, nested our
> xpath implementation 10 sec, PLPython xml reader 5 sec, xmltable 400ms

That's great numbers, kudos for the hard work here.  That will make for
a nice headline in pg10 PR materials.  But what I was getting at is that
I would like to exercise a bit more of the expression handling in
xmltable execution, to make sure it doesn't handle just string literals.

> I have a plan to create tests based on pg_proc and CTE - if all works, then
> the query must be empty
> 
> with x as (select proname, proowner, procost, pronargs,
> array_to_string(proargnames,',') as proargnames,
> array_to_string(proargtypes,',') as proargtypes from pg_proc), y as (select
> xmlelement(name proc, xmlforest(proname, proowner, procost, pronargs,
> proargnames, proargtypes)) as proc from x), z as (select xmltable.* from y,
> lateral xmltable('/proc' passing proc columns proname name, proowner oid,
> procost float, pronargs int, proargnames text, proargtypes text)) select *
> from z except select * from x;

Nice one :-)

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