Re: - Mailing list pgsql-patches

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John Bartlett wrote:
> Hi,
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> This is the first posting to the community of the WIP patch for the
> Updatable Cursor implementation.
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> I want to confirm that the community is satisfied that the effort to date is
> in a suitable direction and to get comments on the development to date.
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> The patch is in the following state:
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> The grammar definition is complete and 'yacc'ed to produce gram.y.c.
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> The functions transformUpdateStmt and transformDeleteStmt have been updated
> to process the cursor name and obtain the related portal.
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> The change to save the current tuple id (ctid) into the portal, related to
> the Fetch command has been done.
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> The ctids relating to the Update/Delete statements' TidScan are being
> extracted to be saved in the executor.
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> The parts in progress are to complete the saving of the ctids from the
> TidScan into a list stored in a file, plus related searching the list for an
> individual ctid obtained from the Update/Delete statements.
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> Unstarted as yet:
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> 1)            Correctly process, in the database, the Delete / Update of the
> tuple from the cursor.
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> 2)            To enable the cursor name to be defined as a parameter in a
> PREPARE statement and provided as part if an EXECUTE statement.
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> The community may wish to comment on the following issue:
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> 1)    At present the file that will contain the list of ctids is going into
> a new directory called pg_ctids, analogous to pg_twophase, and also stored
> in the pg_data directory.
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> Regards,
> John Bartlett
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