WL#4537: QFPD: Virtual Tables
Affects: Server-7.x
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Status: Un-Assigned
================================================================================ WORK IN PROGRESS ================================================================================ The result of a query fragment is a table. What is specific for this table is that its result is not necessarily stored, but is computed in some way by a storage engine. Generally, a Virtual Table is a table whose result is computed in some way. Once a query is decomposed into some query fragments (to be pushed to some SE), and a reduced query, the query fragments must be substituted in the reduced query with Virtual Tables. Virtual Table is a very generic concept that can be used not only for query fragment pushdown, but also to implement table functions. However, the goal of this task is to implement Virtual Tables specifically to be used for query fragment pushdown. Informally a virtual table should provide: * a way to specify its input (bound), output (unbound) and don't care columns, * a minimal iterator interface to retrieve the data in the table, e.g. only the rnd_[init, next, close] methods of the handler interface, * what else? A limitation we accept in this task is that Virtual Tables are non-updateable. The majority of the functionality (if not all) seems to be implemented by WL#3288: "Multiple cursors per TABLE".
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