Re: truncate_useless_pathkeys() doesn't account for window function queries

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-10-08T23:41:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 at 16:42, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking at truncate_useless_pathkeys(), it tries to be fairly liberal
> and not truncate anything that might be useful for various operations
> that require sorted Paths. However, it's not quite liberal enough to
> consider WindowClause sort orders.

I suspect there are not going to be many arguments against fixing
this, so I've gone ahead and pushed it to master.

David



Commits

  1. Make truncate_useless_pathkeys() consider WindowFuncs