Re: [PATCH] Allow CustomScan nodes to signal projection support

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Sven Klemm <sven(at)timescale(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow CustomScan nodes to signal projection support
Date: 2021-07-06 22:14:16
Message-ID: 1782237.1625609656@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com> writes:
>> I named the flag CUSTOMPATH_SUPPORT_PROJECTION similar to the other
>> custom node flags, but this would revert the current logic

> This seems to be a typical Kobayashi Maru situation, i.e any choice is
> a bad one. I suggest keeping the patch as is and hoping that the
> developers of existing extensions read the release notes.

Yeah, I concur that's the least bad choice.

I got annoyed by the fact that the existing checks of CustomPath flags
had several randomly different styles for basically identical tests,
and this patch wanted to introduce yet another. I cleaned that up and
pushed this.

regards, tom lane

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