On Thursday, December 01, 2011 07:21:25 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 06:47:13 PM Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > >> exception to that rule would be SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS SELECT, > >> and my proposal would be to add specific call sites to the functions > >> I've provided in the attached patch rather than try to contort them into > >> being a good citizen as a utility command. > > > > I would very much prefer to make them utility commands and rip out the > > executor support for that. > > Is there something making that especially hard that I overlooked? The > > infrastructure for doing so seems to be there. > > Well, I think the main problem is going to be shunting the query down > the right parsing track (SELECT versus utility-statement) early enough. > Making this work cleanly would be a bigger deal than I think you're > thinking. Yes. I forgot how ugly SELECT INTO is...
> But yeah, it would be nicer if the executor didn't have to worry about > this. +1 if you're willing to take on the work. I won't promise anything but I will play around with the grammar and see if I find a nice enough way. Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
