Re: WIP: Upper planner pathification

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kouhei Kaigai <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: Upper planner pathification
Date: 2016-03-14 18:24:21
Message-ID: 7626.1457979861@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Yeah. An alternative definition that would support that would be to
>> call the upper-path-providing callback for each FDW that's responsible
>> for any base relation of the query. But I think that that would often
>> lead to a lot of redundant/wasted computation, and it's not clear to
>> me that we can support such cases without other changes as well.

> Sure, that's fine with me. Are you going to go make these changes now?

Yeah, in a bit.

> Eventually, we might just support a configurable flag on FDWs where
> FDWs that want to do this sort of thing can request callbacks on every
> join and every upper rel in the query. But that can wait.

That'd be a possibility, too.

regards, tom lane

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