Re: why partition pruning doesn't work?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: why partition pruning doesn't work?
Date: 2018-06-07 15:43:12
Message-ID: 22805.1528386192@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 6 June 2018 at 18:05, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>> I wonder why we need to create those Bitmapsets in the planner? Why not
>> in ExecSetupPartitionPruneState()? For example, like how
>> context->exprstates is initialized.

> That seems like a good idea. Certainly much better than working them
> out each time we prune.

> v3 patch attached.

Maybe there's something I'm missing here, but I sort of hoped that this
patch would nuke all the special-case code for Params in this area.
Why is there any need to distinguish them from other stable expressions?

IOW, I was hoping for the code to end up simpler, not more complicated.

regards, tom lane

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