Re: [HACKERS] Runtime Partition Pruning

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson@gmail.com>, amul sul <sulamul@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-04-09T18:48:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:

> >> I don't get this.  The executor surely had to (and did) open all of
> >> the relations somewhere even before this patch.
> >
> > I was worried that this coding could be seen as breaking modularity, or
> > trying to do excessive work.  However, after looking closer at it, it
> > doesn't really look like it's the case.  So, nevermind.
> 
> Well what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be necessary.  If the
> relations are being opened already and the pointers to the relcache
> entries are being saved someplace, you shouldn't need to re-open them
> elsewhere to get pointers to the relcache entries.

Oh, okay.  I can look into that.

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Commits

  1. Initialize ExprStates once in run-time partition pruning

  2. Add bms_prev_member function

  3. Support partition pruning at execution time

  4. Document partprune.c a little better

  5. Fix crash in pg_replication_slot_advance

  6. Add parallel-aware hash joins.

  7. Fix typo.

  8. Allow --with-bonjour to work with non-macOS implementations of Bonjour.

  9. Mention need for --no-inc-recursive in rsync command