Re: Transient plans versus the SPI API

Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net> writes:
>> Hm, you mean reverse-engineering the parameterization of the query?
>
> Yes, basically re-generate the query after (or while) parsing, replacing
> constants and arguments with another set of generated arguments and
> printing the list of these arguments at the end. It may be easiest to do
> This in parallel with parsing.
>
>> Interesting thought, but I really don't see a way to make it practical.
>
> Another place where this could be really useful is logging & monitoring

Another big use case is full support for materialized views: we could
then optimize a query to automatically use a matview even when written
against the “usual” schema. Now matviews are another kind of indexes.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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