Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl
Date
Msg-id 19991130102122U.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> > Tom, I remember you are going to enhance the function manager to allow
> > functions to return set of rows.
> 
> Moi?  I don't recall saying any such thing.  Jan sounded like he had
> some ideas about how to do it, but my ambitions for fmgr don't go
> further than cleaning up NULL handling and fixing its portability
> problems.  I have too many other things to do...

Sorry for the confusion.

> > If this is possible, it should be very easy to implement the virtual
> > tables.
> 
> It would indeed provide a nice way of defining virtual tables --- just
> make a function that returns the current table contents on-demand.

Anyway, it seems you already have an idea how to implement virtual
tables without modifying the fmgr. Can you tell me about that?
--
Tatsuo Ishii



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