Re: Restructuring Paths to allow per-Path targetlist info

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Restructuring Paths to allow per-Path targetlist info
Date: 2016-02-19 15:52:00
Message-ID: 20160219155200.GA89202@alvherre.pgsql
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Tom Lane wrote:

> So, the attached patch just bites the bullet and adds explicit output
> tlist information to struct Path. I did set things up so that the cost
> is only one pointer in each Path in the typical case where Paths emit
> the set of Vars needed from their relation; in that case, they just
> point to a default PathTarget struct embedded in the parent RelOptInfo.
> A Path emitting something else will need its own PathTarget struct.

Hmm, I wonder if this can be used to attack the problem here in a more
sensible manner:
https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/postgres/commit/e7c5df6b614b542d55588a483dd2ddba3892a0f6

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