Re: JIT compilation per plan node

Thanks for chipping in here.

On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 08:14, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> A slightly subtler way the patch could lose is if the new threshold is
> harder to adjust than the old one. For example, imagine that you have
> a query that does a Cartesian join. That makes the cost of the input
> nodes rather small compared to the cost of the join node, and it also
> means that JITting the inner join child in particular is probably
> rather important. But if you set join_above_cost low enough to JIT
> that node post-patch, then maybe you'll also JIT a bunch of things
> that aren't on the inner side of a nested loop and which might
> therefore not really need JIT. Unless I'm missing something, this is a
> fairly realistic example of where this patch's approach to costing
> could turn out to be painful ... but it's not like the current system
> is pain-free either.

I think this case would be covered as the cost of the inner side of
the join would be multiplied by the estimated outer-side rows.
Effectively, making this part work is the bulk of the patch as we
currently don't know the estimated number of loops of a node during
create plan.

David