Re: pgsql: Support partition pruning at execution time

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Support partition pruning at execution time
Date: 2018-04-08 03:25:32
Message-ID: CAKJS1f9hfaPBkG6vKJV3aFZC6u5rBUwxnXRA1fOueLxudmY4Ow@mail.gmail.com
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On 8 April 2018 at 15:21, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:
> David> Setting autovacuum_naptime to 10 seconds makes it occur in 10
> David> second intervals...
>
> Analyze (including auto-analyze on a different table entirely) has a
> snapshot, which can hold back OldestXmin, hence preventing the
> all-visible flag from being set.

urg, that's true.

Seems like there's no bugs here then;

begin work;
set transaction isolation level repeatable read;
select * from pg_class;
-- do nothing

makes the script go crazy.

You're right, thanks.

I guess the patch I sent is the way forward with this.

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