On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 01:45:19PM +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> So what would it take to do this in the backend? I think the places
> which would need to be touched fall into areas I either know about or am
> starting to look at to implement the CASE clause.
>
> We'd need:
> - a "named buffer" (or several) to hold the intermediate input
I didn't get this one completly. What input do you mean?
> - a way to pass in parameters or substitution arguments
Yes. That means changing of declare cursor as well.
> - a way to decide if previous parser/planner/executor
> results can be reused
Yes.
> What else?
Running planner on the statement as it is without the variables to be
substituted. So execution of declare gets faster.
Michael
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