]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/postgresql.git/commit
Thread flags through begin-scan APIs
authorMelanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:27:24 +0000 (12:27 -0400)
committerMelanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:27:24 +0000 (12:27 -0400)
commitdcd8cc1c852cac4e65d336a79afb6b9eb9700ae1
tree8e79039f3240d0e15b71c540f748d67411944cb0
parent095555daf1246ac28595fcf5b26bbb4686b0cdb6
Thread flags through begin-scan APIs

Add an AM user-settable flags parameter to several of the table scan
functions, one table AM callback, and index_beginscan(). This allows
users to pass additional context to be used when building the scan
descriptors.

For index scans, a new flags field is added to IndexFetchTableData, and
the heap AM saves the caller-provided flags there.

This introduces an extension point for follow-up work to pass per-scan
information (such as whether the relation is read-only for the current
query) from the executor to the AM layer.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2be31f17-5405-4de9-8d73-90ebc322f7d8%40vondra.me
26 files changed:
contrib/pgrowlocks/pgrowlocks.c
src/backend/access/brin/brin.c
src/backend/access/gin/gininsert.c
src/backend/access/heap/heapam_handler.c
src/backend/access/index/genam.c
src/backend/access/index/indexam.c
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsort.c
src/backend/access/table/tableam.c
src/backend/commands/constraint.c
src/backend/commands/copyto.c
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
src/backend/commands/typecmds.c
src/backend/executor/execIndexing.c
src/backend/executor/execReplication.c
src/backend/executor/nodeBitmapHeapscan.c
src/backend/executor/nodeIndexonlyscan.c
src/backend/executor/nodeIndexscan.c
src/backend/executor/nodeSamplescan.c
src/backend/executor/nodeSeqscan.c
src/backend/executor/nodeTidrangescan.c
src/backend/partitioning/partbounds.c
src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
src/include/access/genam.h
src/include/access/heapam.h
src/include/access/relscan.h
src/include/access/tableam.h