Re: [HACKERS] Runtime Partition Pruning

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Runtime Partition Pruning
Date: 2018-04-09 18:28:47
Message-ID: 20180409182847.hf3znk7ium7kmdt2@alvherre.pgsql
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> > I had reservations about a relation_open() in the new executor code. It
> > seemed a bit odd; we don't have any other relation_open in the executor
> > anywhere. However, setting up the pruneinfo needs some stuff from
> > relcache that I don't see a reasonable mechanism to pass through
> > planner. I asked Andres about it on IM and while he didn't endorse the
> > patch in any way, his quick opinion was that "it wasn't entirely
> > insane". I verified that we already hold lock on the relation.
>
> I don't get this. The executor surely had to (and did) open all of
> the relations somewhere even before this patch.

Yeah.

I was worried that this coding could be seen as breaking modularity, or
trying to do excessive work. However, after looking closer at it, it
doesn't really look like it's the case. So, nevermind.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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