Thread: need help

hi,  i want to know how CREATE table (creating a
relation)

works in Postgres.where can i find this in source
code.

also i want to know how postgres parser the
input(create table) and how is this connected to  the
create table source code files.


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vamsi krishna wrote:
> hi,
>    i want to know how CREATE table (creating a
> relation)

See DefineRelation() in backend/commands/tablecmds.c, and the routines 
it calls.

> also i want to know how postgres parser the
> input(create table) and how is this connected to  the
> create table source code files.

See the CreateStmt production in backend/parser/gram.y (circa line 1509 
in current sources). CREATE TABLE is a utility statement, so a 
high-level view of the processing is:

- the query string is scanned (scan.l) and parsed (gram.y), producing a 
raw parse tree
- in the analysis phase, transformCreateStmt() does a few simple 
transformations of the raw parse tree and produces a Query representing 
the CREATE TABLE utility statement
- ProcessUtility() in backend/tcop/utility.c invokes DefineRelation()

-Neil