On Friday, March 16, 2012 10:31:57 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > One more thing I disliked quite a bit was the duplication of the EXECUTE
> > handling. Do you see a way to deduplicate that?
> Yeah, that's what's bugging me, too. I think a chunk of the problem is
> that you're insisting on having control come back to CreateTableAs()
> to perform the table creation. I'm thinking that if the table creation
> were to be moved into the tuple receiver's startup routine, we could
> avoid needing to get control back between ExecutorStartup and
> ExecutorRun, and then all that would be required would be to call
> ExecuteQuery with a different DestReceiver.
Hm. I seriously dislike doing that in the receiver. I can't really point out
why though. Unsurprisingly I like getting the control back to CreateTableAs...
Andres