On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 14:48, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > On 2022-03-30 14:30:32 +1300, David Rowley wrote: > > Maybe nodes below an Append/MergeAppend with run-time pruning could compile > > on-demand and other nodes up-front. Or maybe there's no problem with making > > everything on-demand. > > Yea, that could work. The expressions for one "partition query" would still > have to be emitted at once. For each such subtree we should make a separate > costing decision. But I think an additional "will be executed" sub-node is a > different story, the threshold shouldn't be done on a per-node basis. That > partitioning of the plan tree is kind of what I was trying to get at...
Maybe this point is moot if we get something like [1]. It might mean that run-time pruning would happen early enough that we could just JIT compile non-pruned subnodes. David [1] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/37/3478/