Re: ExecRTCheckPerms() and many prunable partitions

On 06.10.22 15:29, Amit Langote wrote:
> I tried in the attached 0004. ModifyTable gets a new member
> extraUpdatedColsBitmaps, which is List of Bitmapset "nodes".
>
> Actually, List of Bitmapsets turned out to be something that doesn't
> just-work with our Node infrastructure, which I found out thanks to
> -DWRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES. So, I had to go ahead and add
> first-class support for copy/equal/write/read support for Bitmapsets,
> such that writeNode() can write appropriately labeled versions of them
> and nodeRead() can read them as Bitmapsets. That's done in 0003. I
> didn't actually go ahead and make*all* Bitmapsets in the plan trees
> to be Nodes, but maybe 0003 can be expanded to do that. We won't need
> to make gen_node_support.pl emit *_BITMAPSET_FIELD() blurbs then; can
> just use *_NODE_FIELD().

Seeing that on 64-bit platforms we have a 4-byte padding gap in the
Bitmapset struct, sticking a node tag in there seems pretty sensible.
So turning Bitmapset into a proper Node and then making the other
adjustments you describe makes sense to me.

Making a new thread about this might be best.

(I can't currently comment on the rest of the patch set. So I don't
know if you'll really end up needing lists of bitmapsets. But from here
it looks like turning bitmapsets into nodes might be a worthwhile change
just by itself.)