Re: PoC plpgsql - possibility to force custom or generic plan

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PoC plpgsql - possibility to force custom or generic plan
Date: 2017-09-16 16:55:32
Message-ID: 20170916165532.GF9874@momjian.us
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On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:43:39AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> helps. I don't think we can just indefinitely continue to resist
> providing manual control over this behavior on the theory that some
> day we'll fix it. It's been six years and we haven't made any
> significant progress. In some cases, a long delay without any
> progress might just point to a lack of effort that should have been
> applied, but in this case I think it's because the problem is
> incredibly hard.

Add to that, we didn't even document the behavior until last year:

commit fab9d1da4a213fab08fe2d263eedf2408bc4a27a
Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Date: Tue Jun 14 16:11:46 2016 -0400

document when PREPARE uses generic plans

Also explain how generic plans are created.
Link to PREPARE docs from wire-protocol prepare docs.

Reported-by: Jonathan Rogers

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/561E749D.4090301%40socialserve.com

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