From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Surfacing qualifiers |
Date: | 2008-03-26 22:04:58 |
Message-ID: | 20080326220458.GH30828@fetter.org |
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:26:41PM -0700, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 14:38 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > I'm still waiting to see an example of where you say this patch is
> > even marginally useful.
>
> It's not hard to think of one:
>
> SELECT * FROM remote_table() WHERE x = 5;
In DBI-Link's case, remote_table() may not have all the nice features
a Postgres data store would. It might or might not have indexes, for
example, and the best hints it could get might well be those
predicates supplied by DBI-Link.
> Applying the predicate on the remote database (pushing the predicate
> below the function scan) is an elementary optimization, and in many
> cases would be enormously more efficient than materializing the
> entire remote table at the local site and then applying the qual
> there.
>
> Certainly I agree with Tom that proper SQL/MED support requires
> significant support from both the executor and the optimizer.
> This is just a quick hack to take advantage of the existing
> predicate pushdown logic -- I just thought it was a cute trick, not
> something I'd suggest we include in mainline sources.
I disagree that it's "just" a cute trick. I've managed to get dblink
to use it transparently with dblink :)
Cheers,
David.
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