Re: Fix typo about generate_gather_paths - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Masahiko Sawada
Subject Re: Fix typo about generate_gather_paths
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Msg-id CAD21AoAw0DrJVmZWe2pkw=rOaQKGNLUzeGUQG=dkJg-6hfM+-A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Fix typo about generate_gather_paths  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Fix typo about generate_gather_paths  (Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:24 AM Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/9/20 3:21 AM, Hou, Zhijie wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Since ba3e76c,
> > the optimizer call generate_useful_gather_paths instead of generate_gather_paths() outside.
> >
> > But I noticed that some comment still talking about generate_gather_paths not generate_useful_gather_paths.
> > I think we should fix these comment, and I try to replace these " generate_gather_paths " with "
generate_useful_gather_paths" 
> >
>
> Thanks. I started looking at this a bit more closely, and I think most
> of the changes are fine - the code was changed to call a different
> function, but the comments still reference generate_gather_paths().
>
> The one exception seems to be create_ordered_paths(), because that
> comment also makes statements about what generate_gather_pathes is
> doing. And some of it does not apply to generate_useful_gather_paths.
> For example it says it generates order-preserving Gather Merge paths,
> but generate_useful_gather_paths also generates paths with sorts (which
> are clearly not order-preserving).
>
> So I think this comment will need a bit more work to update ...

Status update for a commitfest entry.

This patch has been "Waiting on Author" without seeing any activity
since Tomas sent review comments. I'm planning to set it to "Returned
with Feedback”, barring objections.

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
EDB:  https://www.enterprisedb.com/



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