út 25. 8. 2020 v 9:32 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>
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> po 24. 8. 2020 v 21:43 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>
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>> ne 23. 8. 2020 v 23:08 odesílatel Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:
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>>> Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> > I am sending a patch that is years used in GoodData.
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>>> I'm quite unexcited about that.  I'd be the first to agree that the
>>> ten-pages estimate is a hack, but it's not an improvement to ask users
>>> to think of a better value ... especially not as a one-size-fits-
>>> all-relations GUC setting.
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>> This patch is just a workaround that works well 10 years (but for one
>> special use case) - nothing more. Without this patch that application
>> cannot work ever.
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>>> I did have an idea that I think is better than my previous one:
>>> rather than lying about the value of relpages, let's represent the
>>> case where we don't know the tuple density by setting reltuples = -1
>>> initially.  This leads to a patch that's a good bit more invasive than
>>> the quick-hack solution, but I think it's a lot cleaner on the whole.
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>>> A possible objection is that this changes the FDW API slightly, as
>>> GetForeignRelSize callbacks now need to deal with rel->tuples possibly
>>> being -1.  We could avoid an API break if we made plancat.c clamp
>>> that value to zero; but then FDWs still couldn't tell the difference
>>> between the "empty" and "never analyzed" cases, and I think this is
>>> just as much of an issue for them as for the core code.
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>>> I'll add this to the upcoming CF.
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>> I'll check it
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> I  think it can work. It is a good enough solution for people who need a
> different behaviour with minimal impact on people who don't need a change.
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all tests passed

I'll mark this patch as ready for commit

Regards

Pavel


> Regards
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> Pavel
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>> Regards
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>> Pavel
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>>>                         regards, tom lane
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