Re: Early WIP/PoC for inlining CTEs

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-27T15:21:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Prevent inlining of multiply-referenced CTEs with outer recursive refs.

  2. Allow user control of CTE materialization, and change the default behavior.

  3. Split QTW_EXAMINE_RTES flag into QTW_EXAMINE_RTES_BEFORE/_AFTER.

  4. document when PREPARE uses generic plans

Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
> I'm not sure we should nail down the rule that the absence of NOT
> MATERIALIZED will mean a multiply-referenced CTE is evaluated once. One
> would hope that in the future the planner might be taught to inline or
> not in that case depending on cost. I think it makes more sense to say
> that we never inline if MATERIALIZED is specified, that we always inline
> if NOT MATERIALIZED is specified, and that if neither is specified the
> planner will choose (but perhaps note that currently it always chooses
> only based on refcount).

I have no objection to documenting it like that; I just don't want us
to go off into the weeds trying to actually implement something smarter
for v12.

			regards, tom lane