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authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2018-07-19 13:49:43 +0300
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2018-07-19 13:49:43 +0300
commit5220bb7533f9891b1e071da6461d5c387e8f7b09 (patch)
treebdf9a0a35879d8d1eacae28f9eac2cfdea79c3cf /doc/src
parentb33ef397a1698ddd06f325d0f92a6643ec55577f (diff)
Expand run-time partition pruning to work with MergeAppend
This expands the support for the run-time partition pruning which was added for Append in 499be013de to also allow unneeded subnodes of a MergeAppend to be removed. Author: David Rowley Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKJS1f_F_V8D7Wu-HVdnH7zCUxhoGK8XhLLtd%3DCu85qDZzXrgg%40mail.gmail.com
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/perform.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/perform.sgml
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@@ -899,12 +899,12 @@ EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM tenk1 WHERE unique1 &lt; 100 AND unique2 &gt; 9000
Generally, the <command>EXPLAIN</command> output will display details for
every plan node which was generated by the query planner. However, there
are cases where the executor is able to determine that certain nodes are
- not required; currently, the only node type to support this is the
- <literal>Append</literal> node. This node type has the ability to discard
- subnodes which it is able to determine won't contain any records required
- by the query. It is possible to determine that nodes have been removed in
- this way by the presence of a "Subplans Removed" property in the
- <command>EXPLAIN</command> output.
+ not required; currently, the only node types to support this are the
+ <literal>Append</literal> and <literal>MergeAppend</literal> nodes. These
+ node types have the ability to discard subnodes which they are able to
+ determine won't contain any records required by the query. It is possible
+ to determine that nodes have been removed in this way by the presence of a
+ "Subplans Removed" property in the <command>EXPLAIN</command> output.
</para>
</sect2>