Anagh Lal <anaghlal2001(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Why do we not just store the attributes required in
> the join (i.e. those in the join qual conditions and
> the ones in the select list) and then perform sorting
> and retrieval on these tuples rather than on the
> possibly larger tuples with more attributes which we
> project out in the end anyway.
We already do --- the scan nodes project out only the needed columns.
At least, that's true in released versions. Just a few days ago I put
a hack into CVS tip to skip the projection step for a scan node that's
not topmost in the plan. As you indicate, that's probably a net loss
when there's a Sort node directly above the scan node. Needs more
thought...
regards, tom lane