Sorry if this is not the appropriate mailing list, but I understood that I needed to post here first.
Warning: I'm not a native english speaker ;)
I'm implementing a Foreign Data Wrapper, and I'm trying to "optimize" it by parsing the required columns and simple "quals" from the foreignscanstate.
Let's suppose I have a table defined like this:
create foreign table test (
name character varying,
value character varying,
bigcolumn bytea
)
Populated like this:
name | value | bigcolumn
----------+--------+------------------------------------------
test2 | 4 | \x72616e646f6d737472696e676f666279746573
test1 | 1 | \x72616e646f6d737472696e676f666279746573
test2 | 2 | \x72616e646f6d737472696e676f666279746573
test2 | 3 | \x72616e646f6d737472696e676f666279746573
(4 lignes)
Now, if I query my table like this (a subquery, joined on the outer query), what info should I be able to parse from the PlanState ?
I don't really know much about postgresql internals, regarding execution plans, but here is what I guessed from what I managed to extract from the plan tree so far:
- The outer query is executed once, restricting only the needed columns
- The subquery is executed once for each row, with:
- all columns from the table are requested in a "target entry" node, even if the query only need the name and value columns.
- the value corresponding to the name from the outer query is somehow passed in as an Expr of type T_Param, in the quals field.
How can I retrieve the value from the Param struct ?
The source does not help me much with what to do regarding the various fields in the struct.
Does postgresql really fetch all columns in a subselect, or am I just parsing the tree in a wrong way ?
I've tried to look at the oracle-fdw code, but I don't understand what they are doing with params.
Thank you !
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Ronan Dunklau
