On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> I had reservations about a relation_open() in the new executor code. It
> seemed a bit odd; we don't have any other relation_open in the executor
> anywhere. However, setting up the pruneinfo needs some stuff from
> relcache that I don't see a reasonable mechanism to pass through
> planner. I asked Andres about it on IM and while he didn't endorse the
> patch in any way, his quick opinion was that "it wasn't entirely
> insane". I verified that we already hold lock on the relation.
I don't get this. The executor surely had to (and did) open all of
the relations somewhere even before this patch.
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