Re: Runtime pruning problem

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Yuzuko Hosoya <hosoya(dot)yuzuko(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Runtime pruning problem
Date: 2019-09-12 14:11:53
Message-ID: 20190912141153.GA31190@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Jul-30, Tom Lane wrote:

> I wrote:
> > This may be arguing for a change in ruleutils' existing behavior,
> > not sure. But when dealing with traditional-style inheritance,
> > I've always thought that Vars above the Append were referring to
> > the parent rel in its capacity as the parent, not in its capacity
> > as the first child. With new-style partitioning drawing a clear
> > distinction between the parent and all its children, it's easier
> > to understand the difference.
>
> OK, so experimenting, I see that it is a change: [...]

> The portion of this below the Append is fine, but I argue that
> the Vars above the Append should say "part", not "part_p1".
> In that way they'd look the same regardless of which partitions
> have been pruned or not.

So is anyone working on a patch to use this approach?

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