Re: [HACKERS] Runtime Partition Pruning

Hello,

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:03 PM, David Rowley
<david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> We could do something similar here using a similar code structure. Maybe,
>> add a ExecSetupPartitionRuntimePruning() in execPartition.c (mimicking
>> ExecSetupPartitionTupleRouting), that accepts AppendState node.
>> Furthermore, it might be a good idea to have something similar to
>> ExecFindPartition(), say, ExecGetPartitions(). That is, we have new
>> functions for run-time pruning that are counterparts to corresponding
>> functions for tuple routing.
>
> Seems to me in this case we're better to build this structure during
> planning and save it with the plan so that it can be used over and
> over, rather than building it again and again each time the plan is
> executed. Likely a common use case for run-time pruning is when the
> plan is going to be used multiple times with different parameters, so
> we really don't want to repeat any work that we don't have to here.
>

I agree. It would be better to avoid building the structure during execution.
PFA the updated patch.

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