Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default
Date: 2018-03-29 23:40:29
Message-ID: 20180329234029.tgzpgvukr3ormnqi@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-03-30 10:08:54 +1030, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 5:00 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > this'll trigger one slot_getsomeattrs(slot, 2) call from within qual
> > evaluation, and then a slot_getsomeattrs(slot, 4) from within the
> > projection code. If you then imagine a tuple where only the first
> > column exists physically, we'd copy b twice, because attno is only going
> > to be one 1. I think we might just want to check tts nvalid in
> > getmissingattrs?

> OK. so add something like this to the top of slot_getmissingattrs()?
>
> startAttNum = Max(startAttNum, slot->tts_nvalid);

Yea, I think that should do the trick.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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