Re: Subplan result caching

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Subplan result caching
Date: 2018-10-02 02:21:06
Message-ID: CAKJS1f89DQNk_jB5_2wy4qwnyKZ01xPaD8JHbqyW9BqA5ejRrQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 19 July 2018 at 06:27, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 5:08 AM, David Rowley
>> "LazyMaterialize" seems like a good option for a name. It seems better
>> than "LazyHash" since you may not want to restrict it to a hash table
>> based cache in the future. A binary search tree may be a good option
>> for types that cannot be hashed.
>
> I think that's not too clear, actually. The difference between a
> Materialize and a LazyMaterialize is not that this is lazy and that's
> not. It's that this can cache multiple result sets for various
> parameter values and that can only cache one result set.

Okay. I'm not going to argue with the name of a node type that does
not exist yet. I was more suggesting that it should be a modular
component that we can plug into whatever plan types suit it. My
suggestions for naming was admittedly more of a sales tactic to gain
support for the idea, which perhaps failed.

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