Re: pg_plan_advice

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-03-17T21:45:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm still hoping to get some more feedback on the remaining patches,
> which are much smaller and conceptually simpler. While there is no
> time to redesign them at this point in the release cycle, there is
> still the opportunity to fix bugs, or decide that they're too
> half-baked to ship. So here is v20 with just those patches. Of course,
> post-commit review of the main patch is also very welcome.

I've now committed test_plan_advice, since it seems crazy to me to
have pg_plan_advice in the tree without it and reviewers evidently
agree at least with the concept test_plan_advice is something we
should have. Here are the remaining two patches, as v21.

Separately, I also committed a fix for the GEQO crash that Alexander
Lakhin found. The patch I proposed on list was missing a bms_copy() --
as proposed, it fixed the crash but was still wrong. I added that and
committed it.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

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  1. pg_plan_advice: Fix another unique-semijoin bug.

  2. pg_plan_advice: Export feedback-related definitions.

  3. pg_plan_advice: Fix a bug when a subquery is pruned away entirely.

  4. pg_plan_advice: Add alternatives test to Makefile.

  5. pg_plan_advice: Handle non-repeatable TABLESAMPLE scans.

  6. pg_stash_advice: Allow stashed advice to be persisted to disk.

  7. Add pg_stash_advice contrib module.

  8. pg_plan_advice: Avoid assertion failure with partitionwise aggregate.

  9. pg_plan_advice: Invent DO_NOT_SCAN(relation_identifier).

  10. Add an alternative_plan_name field to PlannerInfo.

  11. pg_plan_advice: Refactor to invent pgpa_planner_info

  12. Respect disabled_nodes in fix_alternative_subplan.

  13. get_memoize_path: Don't exit quickly when PGS_NESTLOOP_PLAIN is unset.

  14. test_plan_advice: Set TAP test priority 50 in meson.build.

  15. pg_plan_advice: Avoid a crash under GEQO.

  16. Test pg_plan_advice using a new test_plan_advice module.

  17. pg_plan_advice: Always install pg_plan_advice.h, and in the right place

  18. pg_plan_advice: Fix failures to accept identifier keywords.

  19. Add pg_plan_advice contrib module.

  20. Allow extensions to mark an individual index as disabled.

  21. Replace get_relation_info_hook with build_simple_rel_hook.

  22. Store information about Append node consolidation in the final plan.

  23. Store information about elided nodes in the final plan.

  24. Store information about range-table flattening in the final plan.

  25. Pass cursorOptions to planner_setup_hook.

  26. Fix PGS_CONSIDER_NONPARTIAL interaction with Materialize nodes.

  27. Fix mistakes in commit 4020b370f214315b8c10430301898ac21658143f

  28. Allow for plugin control over path generation strategies.

  29. Update some comments for fasthash

  30. Allow passing a pointer to GetNamedDSMSegment()'s init callback.

  31. Don't reset the pathlist of partitioned joinrels.

  32. Treat number of disabled nodes in a path as a separate cost metric.