Re: generic plans and "initial" pruning

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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-12-09T09:52:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2022-Dec-09, Amit Langote wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 4:00 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > I find the API of GetCachedPlans a little weird after this patch.

> David, in his Apr 7 reply on this thread, also sounded to suggest
> something similar.
> 
> Hmm, I was / am not so sure if GetCachedPlan() should return something
> that is not CachedPlan.  An idea I had today was to replace the
> part_prune_results_list output List parameter with, say,
> QueryInitPruningResult, or something like that and put the current
> list into that struct.   Was looking at QueryEnvironment to come up
> with *that* name.  Any thoughts?

Remind me again why is part_prune_results_list not part of struct
CachedPlan then?  I tried to understand that based on comments upthread,
but I was unable to find anything.

(My first reaction to your above comment was "well, rename GetCachedPlan
then, maybe to GetRunnablePlan", but then I'm wondering if CachedPlan is
in any way a structure that must be "immutable" in the way parser output
is.  Looking at the comment at the top of plancache.c it appears to me
that it isn't, but maybe I'm missing something.)

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Commits

  1. Stamp 19beta1.

  2. Revert "Don't lock partitions pruned by initial pruning"

  3. Ensure first ModifyTable rel initialized if all are pruned

  4. Fix bug in cbc127917 to handle nested Append correctly

  5. Remove unstable test suite added by 525392d57

  6. Don't lock partitions pruned by initial pruning

  7. Fix an oversight in cbc127917 to handle MERGE correctly

  8. Track unpruned relids to avoid processing pruned relations

  9. Perform runtime initial pruning outside ExecInitNode()

  10. Move PartitionPruneInfo out of plan nodes into PlannedStmt

  11. Fix setrefs.c's failure to do expression processing on prune steps.

  12. Remove obsolete executor cleanup code

  13. Revert "Move PartitionPruneInfo out of plan nodes into PlannedStmt"

  14. Move PartitioPruneInfo out of plan nodes into PlannedStmt

  15. Refactor and cleanup runtime partition prune code a little

  16. Remove some unnecessary fields from Plan trees.

  17. Remove more redundant relation locking during executor startup.

  18. Shut down Gather's children before shutting down Gather itself.