Patch removed from patch queue --- NikhilS, please resubmit when you are
ready.  Thanks.

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NikhilS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As per discussion on -hackers, a patch which allows updates to use
> subselects is attached with this mail.
> 
> As per discussion with Tom, I have adopted the following approach:
> 
> * Introduce ROWEXPR_SUBLINK type for subqueries that allows multiple column
> outputs.
> * Populate the targetList with PARAM_SUBLINK entries dependent on the
> subselects.
> * Modify the targets in-place into PARAM_EXEC entries in the make_subplan
> phase.
> 
> The above does not require any kluges in the targetList processing code path
> at all.
> 
> UPDATEs seem to work fine using subselects with this patch. I have modified
> the update.sql regression test to include possible variations .
> 
> No documentation changes are present in this patch.
> Feedback, comments appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Nikhils
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