Hi All, I am looking at usage of bound parameters.
In functions SPI_cursor_open_with_args() and SPI_cursor_open_with_args() parameters are flagged as constants and passed to the planner in following manner, paramLI = _SPI_convert_params(nargs, argtypes, Values, Nulls, PARAM_FLAG_CONST);
_SPI_prepare_plan(src,&plan, paramLI);
The bound params "paramLI" are then passed to the planner as boundParams. Before actually planning the query, these parameters are evaluated duing constant evaluation (eval_const_expressions_mutator()), and the Param nodes are replaced with Constant nodes. Further, while executing such queries we pass the paramLI structure to the execution routine e.g. _SPI_execute_plan(). These parameter values are stored in "EState" structure. But, since these parameters are already folded into queries, it looks like parameter values stored in EState are never used.
Is this correct? Or somewhere we use those parameter values?
That is correct, at the moment. PARAM_FLAG_CONST means that the planner is free evaluate the params during planning, but it doesn't have to. You still need to pass the params in _SPI_execute_plan() in case the planner decided to not convert some params to Consts, even though as the code stands today it always will.
