Re: pg_plan_advice

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, Dian Fay <di@nmfay.com>, Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>, Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-01-29T04:58:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 10:14 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > If not, I'll rearrange
> > the series to move 0004 to the front, and plan to commit that first.
>
> That rearrangement got done in v11, and I've now committed that patch
> after fixing a few typos that I found. Cautiously, woohoo, but let's
> see if anything breaks.
>
> Here's v13.
>

Documentation review patch attached.

Overall it flowed well.  Most of the changes are just typos or similar.

I found the idea of seeing "Disabled: true" to not make immediate sense.
I've left some comments near that section and plan to come back to it.

The comment about collector memory usage was duplicated more-or-less.  I
kept the first, less loud, instance.

Removed the few uses of "we" in favor of pg_plan_advice being the actor.

David J.

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →
  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.