Restructure command destination handling so that we pass around

DestReceiver pointers instead of just CommandDest values.  The DestReceiver
is made at the point where the destination is selected, rather than
deep inside the executor.  This cleans up the original kluge implementation
of tstoreReceiver.c, and makes it easy to support retrieving results
from utility statements inside portals.  Thus, you can now do fun things
like Bind and Execute a FETCH or EXPLAIN command, and it'll all work
as expected (e.g., you can Describe the portal, or use Execute's count
parameter to suspend the output partway through).  Implementation involves
stuffing the utility command's output into a Tuplestore, which would be
kind of annoying for huge output sets, but should be quite acceptable
for typical uses of utility commands.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/commands/explain.h b/src/include/commands/explain.h
index 040740490bd..69b2268920c 100644
--- a/src/include/commands/explain.h
+++ b/src/include/commands/explain.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994-5, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: explain.h,v 1.18 2003/02/02 23:46:38 tgl Exp $
+ * $Id: explain.h,v 1.19 2003/05/06 20:26:27 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@
 #include "tcop/dest.h"
 
 
-extern void ExplainQuery(ExplainStmt *stmt, CommandDest dest);
+extern void ExplainQuery(ExplainStmt *stmt, DestReceiver *dest);
+
+extern TupleDesc ExplainResultDesc(ExplainStmt *stmt);
+
 extern void ExplainOnePlan(QueryDesc *queryDesc, ExplainStmt *stmt,
 						   TupOutputState *tstate);