On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 at 11:04, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> > project and use a virtual slot type. It's maybe worth coming back and
> > adjusting nodeAppend.c so it works a bit harder to fix its slot type.
> > I think that's likely for another patch, however. Tom is also
> > currently working on nodeSetOps.c to change how all this works so it
> > no longer uses the flags method to determine the outer and inner
> > sides.
>
> Yeah, I see no point in putting effort into improving the current
> nodeSetOp implementation. There might be a reason to change
> nodeAppend as you suggest for other use-cases though.
I'll have a look to see what's possible here. Maybe locally adding
some telemetry output to the regression tests to log when an ExprState
performs a deform operation would be good to test with and without the
said patch to see how widespread an improvement the patch would result
in. I expect it might be most useful for partition-wise joins, but
that'll much depend on what operations occur above the Append.
> > I plan to push the attached patch soon.
>
> I'll presumably need to rebase my nodeSetOp patch when this goes
> in. I'll take a look then at whether the new code can be improved
> with this additional feature.
I've pushed the patch now.
David
