Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> This works well enough for regular DML statements, but it falls down for
> EXPLAIN which is a utility statement, because *parse analysis of utility
> statements doesn't do anything*. EXPLAIN actually does the parse
> analysis of its contained statement at the beginning of execution.
> And that is too late, in the scenario Pavel exhibited. Why is it too
> late? Because SPI_cursor_open_internal() intentionally "freezes" the
> ParamListInfo struct after doing initial parsing: what it copies into
> the cursor portal is just a static list of data values without the
> parser hooks (see copyParamList).
Would it make any sense for this function to get to call the hook in the
case a utility statement is being processed?
Regards,
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