Re: Poor performance using CTE

From: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Greco <David_Greco(at)harte-hanks(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Poor performance using CTE
Date: 2012-11-21 16:32:45
Message-ID: CAGTBQpZc78Cmg8nuJ0HvaTRX0Bj5bTNoJUDWMpn8yd8Z9PTtAg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2012-11-21 13:16:25 -0300, Claudio Freire wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> > +1
>> >
>> > WITH foo AS (SELECT ...) (barrier=on|off)?
>> >
>> > 9.3 introduces the syntax, defaulting to on
>> > 9.4 switches the default to off.
>>
>> Why syntax? What about a guc?
>>
>> collapse_cte_limit?
>
> Because there are very good reasons to want to current behaviour. A guc
> is a global either/or so I don't see it helping much.

set collapse_cte_limit=8;
with blah as (blah) select blah;

Not global at all.

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