On 2019/04/17 12:58, David Rowley wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 15:54, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>> Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:
>>> On 2019/04/17 11:29, David Rowley wrote:
>>>> Where do you think the output list for EXPLAIN VERBOSE should put the
>>>> output column list in this case? On the Append node, or just not show
>>>> them?
>>
>>> Maybe, not show them?
>>
>> Yeah, I think that seems like a reasonable idea. If we show the tlist
>> for Append in this case, when we never do otherwise, that will be
>> confusing, and it could easily break plan-reading apps like depesz.com.
>>
>> What I'm more worried about is whether this breaks any internal behavior
>> of explain.c, as the comment David quoted upthread seems to think.
>> If we need to have a tlist to reference, can we make that code look
>> to the pre-pruning plan tree, rather than the planstate tree?
>
> I think most of the complexity is in what to do in
> set_deparse_planstate() given that there might be no outer plan to
> choose from for Append and MergeAppend. This controls what's done in
> resolve_special_varno() as this descends the plan tree down the outer
> side until it gets to the node that the outer var came from.
>
> We wouldn't need to do this if we just didn't show the targetlist in
> EXPLAIN VERBOSE, but there's also MergeAppend sort keys to worry about
> too. Should we just skip on those as well?
I guess so, if only to be consistent with Append.
Thanks,
Amit