Re: Ordered Partitioned Table Scans

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Antonin Houska <ah(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ordered Partitioned Table Scans
Date: 2019-03-22 15:48:02
Message-ID: CANP8+jJ1Z+1aVDUjXWupgEFTKf=cm9NyxZ4aJZ_DHqLPfM2e4Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 11:39, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I agree that the issue of mixing sorts at various points will make
> nonsense
> > of the startup cost/total cost results.
>
> Right.
>
> > I don't see LIMIT costing being broken as a reason to restrict this
> > optimization. I would ask that we allow improvements to the important use
> > case of ORDER BY/LIMIT, then spend time on making LIMIT work correctly.
>
> There's not time to reinvent LIMIT costing for v12. I'd be happy to
> see some work done on that in the future, and when it does get done,
> I'd be happy to see Append planning extended to allow this case.
> I just don't think it's wise to ship one without the other.
>

I was hoping to motivate you to look at this personally, and soon. LIMIT is
so broken that any improvements count as bug fixes in my book.

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