On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Atri Sharma <atri.j...@gmail.com> writes: > > 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. > > The code path executor -> PL function -> SPI certainly works, so > presumably omitting the intermediate PL function could still work. > Whether it's a good idea is another question entirely. I do not > offhand see a good reason why knowledge of non-system tables should > exist in the core executor; so what is the need to use SPI? > > Thanks! This was a weird requirement and managed to work around it but I will keep this hack for future reference. Regards, Atri
