On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:38 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> That line of argument also leads to the conclusion that it'd be
> okay to expose info about the ordering of the CTE result to the
> upper planner.  This patch doesn't do that, and I'm not sufficiently
> excited about the issue to go write some code.  But if someone else
> does, I think we shouldn't exclude doing it on the grounds of wanting
> to preserve an optimization fence.  The fence is sort of one-way
> in this line of thinking: information can propagate up to the outer
> planner level, but not down into the CTE plan.


In the light of this conclusion, I had a go at propagating the pathkeys
from CTEs up to the outer planner and came up with the attached.

Comments/thoughts?

Thanks
Richard

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