Re: [HACKERS] Runtime Partition Pruning

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Runtime Partition Pruning
Date: 2017-12-21 13:00:26
Message-ID: CAKJS1f-uv90VELKx34ov-d17sQ1vJg5jUvj19K2xa86f6eieKA@mail.gmail.com
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On 22 December 2017 at 01:43, Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I wonder if Robert understands the extent of the problem. The patch
>> will be useful to prune away partitions when the partitioned table is
>> on the inside of a parameterised nested loop join, but I think we'll
>> likely get some complaints about PREPARE statements always using a
>> custom plan. It's going to make this pretty hard to write regression
>> tests for unless we went and invent some GUC "prefer_generic_plan", or
>> "generic_plan_cost_multiplier" to provide a way to coax
>> choose_custom_plan() into not choosing a custom plan. I admit to not
>> having the answer to this but I don't think we should rule out
>> discussing possible fixes.
>
> I have attached the regression tests I am currently using to check my
> patch. It has few prepared statements using runtime pruning.

Thanks for sending. Will the tests still pass if you remove the hack
from choose_custom_plan()?

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