Change WorkTableScan to not support backward scan. The apparent support

didn't actually work, because nodeRecursiveunion.c creates the underlying
tuplestore with backward scan disabled; which is a decision that we shouldn't
reverse because of performance cost.  We could imagine adding signaling from
WorkTableScan to RecursiveUnion about whether backward scan is needed ...
but in practice it'd be a waste of effort, because there simply isn't any
current or plausible future scenario where WorkTableScan would be called on
to scan backward.  So just dike out the code that claims to support it.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/executor/nodeWorktablescan.c b/src/backend/executor/nodeWorktablescan.c
index 49b7279aba8..47f6e202ec1 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/nodeWorktablescan.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/nodeWorktablescan.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/nodeWorktablescan.c,v 1.3 2008/10/23 15:29:23 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/executor/nodeWorktablescan.c,v 1.4 2008/10/28 17:13:51 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -31,14 +31,21 @@ WorkTableScanNext(WorkTableScanState *node)
 {
 	TupleTableSlot *slot;
 	EState	   *estate;
-	ScanDirection direction;
 	Tuplestorestate *tuplestorestate;
 
 	/*
 	 * get information from the estate and scan state
+	 *
+	 * Note: we intentionally do not support backward scan.  Although it would
+	 * take only a couple more lines here, it would force nodeRecursiveunion.c
+	 * to create the tuplestore with backward scan enabled, which has a
+	 * performance cost.  In practice backward scan is never useful for a
+	 * worktable plan node, since it cannot appear high enough in the plan
+	 * tree of a scrollable cursor to be exposed to a backward-scan
+	 * requirement.  So it's not worth expending effort to support it.
 	 */
 	estate = node->ss.ps.state;
-	direction = estate->es_direction;
+	Assert(ScanDirectionIsForward(estate->es_direction));
 
 	tuplestorestate = node->rustate->working_table;
 
@@ -46,9 +53,7 @@ WorkTableScanNext(WorkTableScanState *node)
 	 * Get the next tuple from tuplestore. Return NULL if no more tuples.
 	 */
 	slot = node->ss.ss_ScanTupleSlot;
-	(void) tuplestore_gettupleslot(tuplestorestate,
-								   ScanDirectionIsForward(direction),
-								   slot);
+	(void) tuplestore_gettupleslot(tuplestorestate, true, slot);
 	return slot;
 }
 
@@ -114,7 +119,7 @@ ExecInitWorkTableScan(WorkTableScan *node, EState *estate, int eflags)
 	WorkTableScanState *scanstate;
 
 	/* check for unsupported flags */
-	Assert(!(eflags & EXEC_FLAG_MARK));
+	Assert(!(eflags & (EXEC_FLAG_BACKWARD | EXEC_FLAG_MARK)));
 
 	/*
 	 * WorkTableScan should not have any children.