Create hooks to let a loadable plugin monitor (or even replace) the planner

and/or create plans for hypothetical situations; in particular, investigate
plans that would be generated using hypothetical indexes.  This is a
heavily-rewritten version of the hooks proposed by Gurjeet Singh for his
Index Advisor project.  In this formulation, the index advisor can be
entirely a loadable module instead of requiring a significant part to be
in the core backend, and plans can be generated for hypothetical indexes
without requiring the creation and rolling-back of system catalog entries.

The index advisor patch as-submitted is not compatible with these hooks,
but it needs significant work anyway due to other 8.2-to-8.3 planner
changes.  With these hooks in the core backend, development of the advisor
can proceed as a pgfoundry project.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/optimizer/plancat.h b/src/include/optimizer/plancat.h
index 31391d29a90..a19ba780eed 100644
--- a/src/include/optimizer/plancat.h
+++ b/src/include/optimizer/plancat.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2007, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/optimizer/plancat.h,v 1.43 2007/01/05 22:19:56 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/optimizer/plancat.h,v 1.44 2007/05/25 17:54:25 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@
 
 #include "nodes/relation.h"
 
+/* Hook for plugins to get control in get_relation_info() */
+typedef void (*get_relation_info_hook_type) (PlannerInfo *root,
+											 Oid relationObjectId,
+											 bool inhparent,
+											 RelOptInfo *rel);
+extern DLLIMPORT get_relation_info_hook_type get_relation_info_hook;
+
 
 extern void get_relation_info(PlannerInfo *root, Oid relationObjectId,
 				  bool inhparent, RelOptInfo *rel);