Re: Early WIP/PoC for inlining CTEs

Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-01T00:42:44Z
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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

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:

 Andreas> I believe I have fixed these except for the comment on the
 Andreas> conditions for when we inline.

 Andreas> Andrew Gierth: Why did you chose to not inline on FOR UPDATE
 Andreas> but inline volatile functions? I feel that this might be
 Andreas> inconsistent since in both cases the query in the CTE can
 Andreas> change behavior if the planner pushes a WHERE clause into the
 Andreas> subquery, but maybe I am missing something.

I chose not to inline FOR UPDATE because it was an obvious compatibility
break, potentially changing the set of locked rows, and it was an easy
condition to test.

I did not test for volatile functions simply because this was a very
early stage of the project (which wasn't my project, I was just
assisting someone else). I left the comment "this likely needs some
additional checks" there for a reason.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)