Re: CustomScan in a larger structure (RE: CustomScan support on readfuncs.c)

Hi,


On 2016-02-10 23:26:20 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think the part about whacking around the FDW API is a little more
> potentially objectionable to others, so I want to hold off doing that
> unless a few more people chime in with +1.  Perhaps we could start a
> new thread to talk about that specific idea.  This is useful even
> without that, though.

FWIW, I can delete a couple hundred lines of code from citusdb thanks to
this...

A quick questions about what you committed:

> @@ -527,10 +532,17 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT Node *newNodeMacroHolder;
>   */
>  extern char *nodeToString(const void *obj);
>  
> +struct Bitmapset;		/* not to include bitmapset.h here */
> +struct StringInfoData;	/* not to include stringinfo.h here */
> +extern void outToken(struct StringInfoData *str, const char *s);
> +extern void outBitmapset(struct StringInfoData *str,
> +						 const struct Bitmapset *bms);
> +
>  /*
>   * nodes/{readfuncs.c,read.c}
>   */
>  extern void *stringToNode(char *str);
> +extern struct Bitmapset *readBitmapset(void);

why exactly did you expose read/writeBitmapset(), and nothing else?
Afaics a lot of the other read routines are also pretty necessary from
the outside?

Greetings,

Andres Freund