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Re: generic plans and "initial" pruning

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-07-29T16:47:05Z
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> ... it's
> always struck me as a little unfortunate that we basically test
> whether a var is equal by testing whether the varno and varlevelsup
> are equal. That only works if you assume that you can never end up
> comparing two vars from thoroughly unrelated parts of the tree, such
> that the subquery one level up from one might be different from the
> subquery one level up from the other.

Yeah, that's always bothered me a little as well.  I've yet to see a
case where it causes a problem in practice.  But I think that if, say,
we were to try to do any sort of cross-query-level optimization, then
the ambiguity could rise up to bite us.  That might be a situation
where a flat rangetable would be worth the trouble.

> I'm just uncertain whether what Amit has implemented is the
> least-annoying way to go about it... any thoughts on that,
> specifically as it pertains to this patch?

I haven't looked at this patch at all.  I'll try to make some
time for it, but probably not today.

			regards, tom lane

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.