Hello,
If you are a newbie :) I would suggest taking a slightly simpler
approach by using prepared queries. Prepared queries will give you the
stored plan, albeit per connection.
E.g:
PREPARE FOO AS SELECT ....
EXECUTE FOO;
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
Katsaros Kwn/nos wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm new to PostgreSQL (and C) and what I'm trying to do is to store a
> query plan on disc (in a binary file).
> My approach is to use SPI functions to get the query plan and then
> transform it into a 'storable' format (Replacing the pointers with
> actual values).
>
> Is there any other way to do this? Is my approach OK?
> The sure thing is that it is a messy task!
>
> I posted this message to the 'general' and 'novice' lists but the only
> answer I got was from the latter:
>
> " I'd look at extending the outfuncs/readfuncs code to deal with
> all the node types used in plan trees, and then store text
> strings instead of binary.
>
> regards, tom lane",
>
> which seems a little confusing to me since as I said I'm a newbie.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> ntinoas
>
>
>
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