Re: Varying results when using merge joins over postgres_fdw vs hash joins

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Varying results when using merge joins over postgres_fdw vs hash joins
Date: 2017-09-20 22:30:00
Message-ID: bb0ff497-7ac9-6a61-ed7b-3663516ac659@2ndquadrant.com
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On 9/20/17 12:06, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm tempted to propose that we invent some kind of "unknown"
> collation, which the planner would have to be taught to not equate to any
> other column collation (not even other instances of "unknown"), and that
> postgres_fdw's IMPORT ought to label remote columns with that collation
> unless specifically told to do otherwise. Then it's on the user's head
> if he tells us to do the wrong thing; but we won't produce incorrect
> plans by default.

OID 0 might already work that way, depending on the details.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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