Sorry, I missed this email. I was specifically targeting accessing tables inside Node evaluation hence do not want to add new nodes.
Thanks for your inputs! Regards, Atri On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Amit Langote <langote_amit...@lab.ntt.co.jp > wrote: > On 2016/01/05 14:30, Atri Sharma wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Amit Langote < > langote_amit...@lab.ntt.co.jp> > >> On 2016/01/05 3:53, Atri Sharma wrote: > >>> I was wary to use SPI inside the executor for node evaluation > functions. > >>> Does it seem safe? > >> > >> What is "node evaluation functions"? Is it "Plan" nodes or "Expr" nodes > >> that you are talking about? I guess you'd know to use ExecProcNode() or > >> ExecEvalExpr() for them, respectively. > >> > > I fail to see the relevance of which node is getting evaluated (its a > Plan > > node BTW) for this question. The concern I had was around using SPI > inside > > executor and its fail safety. > > Sorry, I may have misunderstood your question(s). Seeing your first > question in the thread, I see that you're looking to query non-system > tables within the executor. AFAIU, most of the processing within executor > takes the form of some node in some execution pipeline of a plan tree. > Perhaps, you're imagining some kind of node, subnode or some such. By the > way, some places like ATRewriteTable(), validateCheckConstraint() scan > user tables directly using low-level utilities within a dummy executor > context. I think Jim suggested something like that upthread. > > Thanks, > Amit > > > -- Regards, Atri *l'apprenant*
