Re: RTE_NAMEDTUPLESTORE, enrtuples and comments

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 15:38:38
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY6Z9w5ukzA-RCTe6gMen0W6S1JPzKQ61mMfhg7ZeAqMw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Perhaps this is a silly question, but I don't particularly see what's
>> wrong with:
>
>> 3. Do nothing.
>
> Well, the fundamental problem is that the RTE is a lousy place to keep
> rowcount estimates. That breaks assorted desirable properties like
> querytrees being readonly to planning/execution (not that we don't
> end up copying them anyway, but up to now that's been because of bad
> implementation not because the representation was broken by design).

How does it break those properties? I don't think enrtuples is being
modified by planning or execution as things stand.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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