Radical suggestion for plan executor? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Radical suggestion for plan executor?
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Msg-id 20010714120652.C11863@svana.org
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Responses Re: Radical suggestion for plan executor?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I notice that the query executor currently has a lot of switch statements on
the the type of node it is descending to. This means you get a call tree
like:

ExecProcNode ExecNestLoop   ExecProcNode     ExecMergeJoin       ...

Wouldn't it be nicer if the Plan had access to function pointers that
already referred to the right function. So instead of:

result = ExecProcNode( a, b )

you get:

a->procs.exec( b );

It compresses the call tree down a bit. However, I'm not sure if it has many
benefits other than maintainability.

OTOH, you could keep ExecProcNode and just replace the switch with a
function call.

Any thoughts?
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