Fast Path

Data Navigation (Version 1 only)

Access to the POSTGRES optimizer or executor

Unique Identifier Coherence between the Front and Backend of the DBMS

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Notes:

The user can directly call the parser, the optimizer, the executor, the access methods, the buffer manager, or the utility functions. The validity of the parameters are not checked! RPC, -function calls in another address space.

Sequence of functions to use navigational interface

To allow application developers to construct a parse tree representations for a query rather than an ASCII one.

As with CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) It can obtain a block on Unique Identifiers from POSTGRES and use them. Later these objects can be written to the POSTGRES database using the preassigned OIDs.