Use appendrel planning logic for top-level UNION ALL structures.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Use appendrel planning logic for top-level UNION ALL structures. Formerly, we could convert a UNION ALL structure inside a subquery-in-FROM into an appendrel, as a side effect of pulling up the subquery into its parent; but top-level UNION ALL always caused use of plan_set_operations(). That didn't matter too much because you got an Append-based plan either way. However, now that the appendrel code can do things with MergeAppend, it's worthwhile to hack up the top-level case so it also uses appendrels. This is a bit of a stopgap; but going much further than this will require a major rewrite of the planner's set-operations support, which I'm not prepared to undertake now. For the moment let's grab the low-hanging fruit.
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| Path | Change | +/− |
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| src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c | modified | +10 −1 |
| src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepjointree.c | modified | +110 −11 |
| src/include/optimizer/prep.h | modified | +1 −0 |