/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * tuplestore.h * Generalized routines for temporary tuple storage. * * This module handles temporary storage of tuples for purposes such * as Materialize nodes, hashjoin batch files, etc. It is essentially * a dumbed-down version of tuplesort.c; it does no sorting of tuples * but can only store a sequence of tuples and regurgitate it later. * A temporary file is used to handle the data if it exceeds the * space limit specified by the caller. * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2001, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * $Id: tuplestore.h,v 1.2 2001/01/24 19:43:29 momjian Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifndef TUPLESTORE_H #define TUPLESTORE_H #include "access/htup.h" /* Tuplestorestate is an opaque type whose details are not known outside * tuplestore.c. */ typedef struct Tuplestorestate Tuplestorestate; /* * Currently we only need to store HeapTuples, but it would be easy * to support the same behavior for IndexTuples and/or bare Datums. */ extern Tuplestorestate *tuplestore_begin_heap(bool randomAccess, int maxKBytes); extern void tuplestore_puttuple(Tuplestorestate *state, void *tuple); extern void tuplestore_donestoring(Tuplestorestate *state); extern void *tuplestore_gettuple(Tuplestorestate *state, bool forward, bool *should_free); #define tuplestore_getheaptuple(state, forward, should_free) \ ((HeapTuple) tuplestore_gettuple(state, forward, should_free)) extern void tuplestore_end(Tuplestorestate *state); /* * These routines may only be called if randomAccess was specified 'true'. * Likewise, backwards scan in gettuple/getdatum is only allowed if * randomAccess was specified. */ extern void tuplestore_rescan(Tuplestorestate *state); extern void tuplestore_markpos(Tuplestorestate *state); extern void tuplestore_restorepos(Tuplestorestate *state); #endif /* TUPLESTORE_H */