Re: Yet another abort-early plan disaster on 9.3

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Graeme B(dot) Bell" <grb(at)skogoglandskap(dot)no>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Yet another abort-early plan disaster on 9.3
Date: 2014-09-30 16:32:37
Message-ID: 10321.1412094757@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Graeme B. Bell" <grb(at)skogoglandskap(dot)no> writes:
> Every year or two the core count goes up. Can/should/does postgres ever attempt two strategies in parallel, in cases where strategy A is generally good but strategy B prevents bad worst case behaviour? Kind of like a Schrdinger's Cat approach to scheduling. What problems would it raise?

You can't run two plans and have them both returning rows to the client,
or performing inserts/updates/deletes as the case may be.

regards, tom lane

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