Re: PATCH: generate fractional cheapest paths in generate_orderedappend_path

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Arne Roland <A.Roland@index.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-22T00:18:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2022-01-14 01:39:30 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> Are you interested / willing to do some of this work?

This patch hasn't moved in the last two months. I think it may be time to
mark it as returned with feedback for now?

It's also failing tests, and has done so for months:

https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5308087077699584
https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/artifact/task/5308087077699584/log/src/test/regress/regression.diffs

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. Consider fractional paths in generate_orderedappend_paths

  2. Support MergeAppend plans, to allow sorted output from append relations.