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: 2022-12-09T11:37:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2022-Dec-09, Amit Langote wrote:

> Pruning will be done afresh on every fetch of a given cached plan when
> CheckCachedPlan() is called on it, so the part_prune_results_list part
> will be discarded and rebuilt as many times as the plan is executed.
> You'll find a description around CachedPlanSavePartitionPruneResults()
> that's in v12.

I see.

In that case, a separate container struct seems warranted.

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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.