Re: Asynchronous Append on postgres_fdw nodes.

On 11/5/21 12:24, Etsuro Fujita wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:58 AM Andrey Lepikhov
> The extra tuple, which is from f1 or f2, would have been kept in the
> Append node's as_asyncresults, not returned from the Append node to
> the Limit node. The async Foreign Scan nodes would fetch tuples
> before the Append node ask the tuples, so the fetched tuples may or
> may not be used.
Ok.>> -> Append (actual rows=3000 loops=1)
>> -> Async Foreign Scan on f1 (actual rows=0 loops=1)
>> -> Async Foreign Scan on f2 (actual rows=0 loops=1)
>> -> Foreign Scan on f3 (actual rows=3000 loops=1)
>>
>> Here we give preference to the synchronous scan. Why?
>
> This would be expected behavior, and the reason is avoid performance
> degradation; you might think it would be better to execute the async
> Foreign Scan nodes more aggressively, but it would require
> waiting/polling for file descriptor events many times, which is
> expensive and might cause performance degradation. I think there is
> room for improvement, though.
Yes, I agree with you. Maybe you can add note in documentation on
async_capable, for example:
"... Synchronous and asynchronous scanning strategies can be mixed by
optimizer in one scan plan of a partitioned table or an 'UNION ALL'
command. For performance reasons, synchronous scans executes before the
first of async scan. ..."

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regards,
Andrey Lepikhov
Postgres Professional