Re: Asynchronous Append on postgres_fdw nodes.

On 6/5/21 14:11, Etsuro Fujita wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:57 PM Andrey V. Lepikhov
> <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>> One more question. Append choose async plans at the stage of the Append
>> plan creation.
>> Later, the planner performs some optimizations, such as eliminating
>> trivial Subquery nodes. So, AsyncAppend is impossible in some
>> situations, for example:
>>
>> (SELECT * FROM f1 WHERE a < 10)
>>     UNION ALL
>> (SELECT * FROM f2 WHERE a < 10);
>>
>> But works for the query:
>>
>> SELECT *
>>     FROM (SELECT * FROM f1 UNION ALL SELECT * FROM f2) AS q1
>> WHERE a < 10;
>>
>> As far as I understand, this is not a hard limit.
> 
> I think so, but IMO I think this would be an improvement rather than a bug fix.
> 
>> We can choose async
>> subplans at the beginning of the execution stage.
>> For a demo, I prepared the patch (see in attachment).
>> It solves the problem and passes the regression tests.
> 
> Thanks for the patch!  IIUC, another approach to this would be the
> patch you proposed before [1].  Right?
Yes. I think, new solution will be better.

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regards,
Andrey Lepikhov
Postgres Professional