Re: Do we still need constraint_exclusion?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Do we still need constraint_exclusion?
Date: 2009-01-07 17:35:24
Message-ID: 1231349724.12947.42.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 12:26 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > ~ 10% slowdown on trivial queries will get noticed.

> > I just thought of a possible compromise though: maybe we could invent an
> > intermediate constraint_exclusion setting that makes the checks only for
> > inheritance-child tables. This would avoid the overhead for simple
> > queries and still get the benefit for most of the cases where it's
> > actually useful. I'm not sure how hard this'd be to shoehorn into the
> > planner, but if it's doable it might satisfy both camps.

I can buy into this.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> +1
>
> ...Robert
>
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