(2019/01/10 21:23), Amit Langote wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 6:49 PM Ashutosh Bapat
> <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Though this will solve a problem for performance when partition-wise join is not possible, we still have the same
problemwhen partition-wise join is possible. And that problem really happens because our inheritance mechanism requires
expressiontranslation from parent to child everywhere. That consumes memory, eats CPU cycles and generally downgrades
performanceof partition related query planning. I think a better way would be to avoid these translations and use
Parentvar to represent a Var of the child being dealt with. That will be a massive churn on inheritance based planner
code,but it will improve planning time for queries involving thousands of partitions.
>
> Yeah, it would be nice going forward to overhaul inheritance planning
> such that parent-to-child Var translation is not needed, especially
> where no pruning can occur or many partitions remain even after
> pruning.
I agree on that point, but I think that's an improvement for a future
release rather than a fix for the issue reported on this thread.
Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita
