On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> I've not followed this thread/feature at all, but I don't find the
>> comments atop partprune.c even remotely sufficient. Unless there's an
>> README hidden or such hidden somewhere?
>
> Sorry there isn't a README and I agree partprune.c's header comment
> could be improved quite a bit.
>
> Just to be clear, that's the fault of the patch that was already
> committed earlier today (9fdb675fc "Faster partition pruning"), not
> this patch, which just extends partition.c's functionality to
> implement additional planner and executor support for runtime pruning.
>
> I'm drafting a patch that expands the partprune.c comment and will post shortly.
See if the attached makes it any better.
Now I know we don't have the runtime pruning in yet, but since the
proposed patch would extend its functionality I have included its
description in the comment.
Thanks,
Amit
