Re: PostgreSQL 12: Feature Highlights

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 03:57:45PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 15:24, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:33:10PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 02:55, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > > This brings up a few points.  First, it seems the change affects
> > > > partitioned tables and UNION ALL, which means it probably needs to be
> > > > listed in two sections.   Second, is it only parallelism paths that are
> > > > added?  I am not sure if people care about a node being removed,
> > > > especially when the might not even know we do that step, but they do
> > > > care if there are new optimization possibilities.
> > >
> > > Like Amit, I think the optimizer section is fine.  Another thing that
> > > is affected is that you may no longer get a Materialize node in the
> > > plan.  Previously you might have gotten something like Merge Join ->
> > > Materialize -> Append -> Seq Scan, now you might just get Merge Join
> > > -> Seq Scan.  This is because Append / MergeAppend don't support mark
> > > and restore. Removing them would allow the materialize node to be
> > > skipped in cases where the single subpath of the Append does support
> > > mark and restore.
> >
> > How is this patch for the item?  I put it in the Optimizer section.
> 
> That looks fine. Thank you.

Done, thanks.

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