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Re: generic plans and "initial" pruning

Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>

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From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-04-01T07:01:18Z
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On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 12:45 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 10:32 AM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 1. You've changed the signature of various functions by adding
> >> ExecLockRelsInfo *execlockrelsinfo.  I'm wondering why you didn't just
> >> put the ExecLockRelsInfo as a new field in PlannedStmt?
>
> > I'm worried about that churn myself and did consider this idea, though
> > I couldn't shake the feeling that it's maybe wrong to put something in
> > PlannedStmt that the planner itself doesn't produce.
>
> PlannedStmt is part of the plan tree, which MUST be read-only to
> the executor.  This is not negotiable.  However, there's other
> places that this data could be put, such as QueryDesc.
> Or for that matter, couldn't the data structure be created by
> the planner?  (It looks like David is proposing exactly that
> further down.)

The data structure in question is for storing the results of
performing initial partition pruning on a generic plan, which the
proposes to do in plancache.c -- inside the body of
AcquireExecutorLocks()'s loop over PlannedStmts -- so, it's hard to
see it as a product of the planner. :-(

-- 
Amit Langote
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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.