Re: enhance SPI to support EXECUTE commands

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 05:29:52PM +0500, Ahsan Hadi wrote:
>I don't see much use for this because the documentation says that "server's
>execute command cannot be used directly within pl/pgsql function (and it is
>not needed). Within pl/pgsql you can execute update/delete commands using
>pl/pgsql EXECUTE command and get results like row_count using "get
>diagnostic".
>
>Why would somebody do what you have shown in your example in pl/pgsql? Or
>do you have a more general use-case for this enhancement?
>

Yeah, I think that's a good question - why would we need this? In fact,
the plpgsql docs explicitly say:

   The PL/pgSQL EXECUTE statement is not related to the EXECUTE SQL
   statement supported by the PostgreSQL server. The server's EXECUTE
   statement cannot be used directly within PL/pgSQL functions (and is
   not needed).

That is because all queries in plpgsql are prepared and cached
automatically, so why would we need this feature?

In any case, the patch should probably be in "waiting on author" state,
so I'll make it that way.


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