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-rw-r--r--src/include/access/tupdesc.h26
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/access/tupdesc.h b/src/include/access/tupdesc.h
index 670ef5c92e..035a0a85e5 100644
--- a/src/include/access/tupdesc.h
+++ b/src/include/access/tupdesc.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2006, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/access/tupdesc.h,v 1.49 2006/03/16 00:31:55 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/access/tupdesc.h,v 1.50 2006/06/16 18:42:23 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ typedef struct tupleConstr
* tdtypeid is RECORDOID, and tdtypmod can be either -1 for a fully anonymous
* row type, or a value >= 0 to allow the rowtype to be looked up in the
* typcache.c type cache.
+ *
+ * Tuple descriptors that live in caches (relcache or typcache, at present)
+ * are reference-counted: they can be deleted when their reference count goes
+ * to zero. Tuple descriptors created by the executor need no reference
+ * counting, however: they are simply created in the appropriate memory
+ * context and go away when the context is freed. We set the tdrefcount
+ * field of such a descriptor to -1, while reference-counted descriptors
+ * always have tdrefcount >= 0.
*/
typedef struct tupleDesc
{
@@ -67,6 +75,7 @@ typedef struct tupleDesc
Oid tdtypeid; /* composite type ID for tuple type */
int32 tdtypmod; /* typmod for tuple type */
bool tdhasoid; /* tuple has oid attribute in its header */
+ int tdrefcount; /* reference count, or -1 if not counting */
} *TupleDesc;
@@ -81,6 +90,21 @@ extern TupleDesc CreateTupleDescCopyConstr(TupleDesc tupdesc);
extern void FreeTupleDesc(TupleDesc tupdesc);
+extern void IncrTupleDescRefCount(TupleDesc tupdesc);
+extern void DecrTupleDescRefCount(TupleDesc tupdesc);
+
+#define PinTupleDesc(tupdesc) \
+ do { \
+ if ((tupdesc)->tdrefcount >= 0) \
+ IncrTupleDescRefCount(tupdesc); \
+ } while (0)
+
+#define ReleaseTupleDesc(tupdesc) \
+ do { \
+ if ((tupdesc)->tdrefcount >= 0) \
+ DecrTupleDescRefCount(tupdesc); \
+ } while (0)
+
extern bool equalTupleDescs(TupleDesc tupdesc1, TupleDesc tupdesc2);
extern void TupleDescInitEntry(TupleDesc desc,