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Re: TupleTableSlot abstraction

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-08-05T10:19:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

Working on rebasing the pluggable storage patch on the current version
of this.

On 2018-07-26 17:09:08 +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> Done. I also noticed that slot_getattr() optimizes the cases when the
> requested attributes is NULL or is missing from a tuple. Given that a
> custom TupleTableSlot type can have its own optimizations for the
> same, added a new call back getattr() to obtain value of a given
> attribute from slot. The callback is called from slot_getattr().

I'm quite against this. This is just proliferation of callbacks without
much use.  Why do you think this is helpful?  I think it's much better
to go back to a single callback to deform here.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Fix memory leak when inserting tuple at relation creation for CTAS

  2. Build HashState's hashkeys expression with the correct parent.

  3. Move TupleTableSlots boolean member into one flag variable.

  4. Move generic slot support functions from heaptuple.c into execTuples.c.

  5. Remove absolete function TupleDescGetSlot().

  6. Remove function list from prologue of execTuples.c.

  7. Split ExecStoreTuple into ExecStoreHeapTuple and ExecStoreBufferHeapTuple.

  8. Change TupleTableSlot->tts_nvalid to type AttrNumber.

  9. Deduplicate code between slot_getallattrs() and slot_getsomeattrs().

  10. Mention ownership requirements for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW in docs

  11. Spell "partitionwise" consistently.

  12. Fix WHERE CURRENT OF when the referenced cursor uses an index-only scan.