While trying to construct testcases for a patch, I ran into this:
execAmi.c has a function ExecMayReturnRawTuples which indicates whether
a given plan might return tuples that come straight from a table rather
than having been projected.
InitPlan() uses this to force the addition of a junk filter to INSERT
or SELECT INTO queries that return raw tuples, with this comment:
* Initialize the junk filter if needed. SELECT and INSERT queries need a* filter if there are any junk attrs in the
tlist. INSERT and SELECT* INTO also need a filter if the plan may return raw disk tuples (else* heap_insert will be
scribblingon the source relation!). UPDATE and
However, tracing through the code suggests that neither ExecInsert not
intorel_receive will modify a passed raw tuple - ExecInsert calls
ExecMaterializeSlot before heap_insert, and intorel_receive calls
ExecCopySlotTuple before heap_insert.
So is the ExecMayReturnRawTuples and corresponding ExecFilterJunk needed
at all? Or am I missing something?
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