On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 15:52 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 11:12 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > >> > >> Could you possibly have ModifyTable -> Limit -> MergeAppend? > > > > Before MergeAppend knows which tuple to produce, it needs to see the > > tuples (at least the first one from each of its children), meaning that > > it needs to pull them through ModifyTable; and at that point it's > > already too late. > > > > You seem to be imagining the MergeAppend node on top
Yes, I assumed that the tuples flowed in the direction of the arrows ;) Now that I think about it, your representation makes some sense given our EXPLAIN output. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers