On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> How big a deal do we think test coverage is? It looks like
> ExecReScanGatherMerge is identical logic to ExecReScanGather,
> which *is* covered according to coverage.postgresql.org, but
> it wouldn't be too surprising if they diverge in future.
>
> I should think it wouldn't be that expensive to create a test
> case, if you already have test cases that invoke GatherMerge.
> Adding a right join against a VALUES clause with a small number of
> entries, and a non-mergeable/hashable join clause, ought to do it.
I chatted with Amit about this -- he's planning to look into it. I
assume we'll hear from him tomorrow about this, but for official
status update purposes I'll set a next-update date of one week from
today (August 23rd).
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Robert Haas
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