Re: RTE_NAMEDTUPLESTORE, enrtuples and comments

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Subject: Re: RTE_NAMEDTUPLESTORE, enrtuples and comments
Date: 2017-06-13 16:04:48
Message-ID: 23683.1497369888@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> But it needs to be changeable, unless you like the proposition that we
>> can never replan a query inside a trigger on the basis of new information
>> about how big the transition table is. Even if you're okay with that
>> particular restriction, the NamedTupleStore stuff is supposed to be
>> flexible enough to accommodate other use-cases, and some of them will
>> surely not be okay with an immutable estimate for the store's size.

> Hmm, true. But even if we extracted enrtuples from the
> RangeTbleEntry, there wouldn't be any mechanism to actually trigger
> such a replan, would there?

You're just pointing out that there's a lot of unfinished work around
this mechanism. I don't think anybody has claimed otherwise.

regards, tom lane

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