Re: generic plans and "initial" pruning

Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Date: 2025-05-21T10:22:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> wrote:
> On 5/20/25 05:06, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Pushed after some tweaks to comments and the test case.
> >
> > My attention was drawn to commit 525392d57 after observing that
> > Valgrind complained about a memory leak in some code that commit added
> > to BuildCachedPlan().  I tried to make sense of said code so I could
> > remove the leak, and eventually arrived at the attached patch, which
> > is part of a series of leak-fixing things hence the high sequence
> > number.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the bad things I speculated about in the added comments
> > seem to be reality.  The second attached file is a test case that
> > triggers
> >
> > ...
>
> FYI I added this as a PG18 open item:
>
>   https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_18_Open_Items

Thanks Tomas.

-- 
Thanks, Amit Langote



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.