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Re: Asynchronous MergeAppend

Alexander Pyhalov <a.pyhalov@postgrespro.ru> — 2025-07-26T07:56:22Z

Hi.

I've updated patches for asynchronous merge append. They allowed us to 
significantly improve performance in practice. Earlier select from 
partitioned (and distributed table) could switch to synchronous merge 
append plan from asynchronous append. Given that table could have 20+ 
partitions, it was cheaper, but much less efficient due to remote parts 
executing synchronously.

In this version there's a couple of small fixes - earlier 
ExecMergeAppend() scanned all asyncplans, but should do this only for 
valid asyncplans. Also incorporated logic from

commit af717317a04f5217728ce296edf4a581eb7e6ea0
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date:   Wed Mar 12 20:53:09 2025 +0200

     Handle interrupts while waiting on Append's async subplans

into ExecMergeAppendAsyncEventWait().

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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
Postgres Professional