Re: pgsql: Create hooks to let a loadable plugin monitor (or even replace)

Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> I like the new interface... it supports all the current Index Advisor
> requirements, and probably the future requirements too.
>
> I'll submit a new patch taking the current support routines into
> consideration.
>
> But I did not understand the haste to commit the patch within almost half an
> hour of proposing the second version of the patch!!!

It happens some times when a patch applier has gotten as far as they can
go with a patch and wants to move on, with the willingness to return to
the patch if there is any additional feedback.

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> On 5/25/07, Tom Lane <tgl@postgresql.org> wrote:
> >
> > Log Message:
> > -----------
> > Create hooks to let a loadable plugin monitor (or even replace) the
> > planner
> > and/or create plans for hypothetical situations; in particular,
> > investigate
> > plans that would be generated using hypothetical indexes.  This is a
> > heavily-rewritten version of the hooks proposed by Gurjeet Singh for his
> > Index Advisor project.  In this formulation, the index advisor can be
> > entirely a loadable module instead of requiring a significant part to be
> > in the core backend, and plans can be generated for hypothetical indexes
> > without requiring the creation and rolling-back of system catalog entries.
> >
> > The index advisor patch as-submitted is not compatible with these hooks,
> > but it needs significant work anyway due to other 8.2-to-8.3 planner
> > changes.  With these hooks in the core backend, development of the advisor
> > can proceed as a pgfoundry project.
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > --------------
> >     pgsql/src/backend/commands:
> >         explain.c (r1.163 -> r1.164)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/explain.c.diff?r1=1.163&r2=1.164
> > )
> >         prepare.c (r1.75 -> r1.76)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/prepare.c.diff?r1=1.75&r2=1.76
> > )
> >     pgsql/src/backend/executor:
> >         nodeBitmapIndexscan.c (r1.22 -> r1.23)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/executor/nodeBitmapIndexscan.c.diff?r1=1.22&r2=1.23
> > )
> >         nodeIndexscan.c (r1.121 -> r1.122)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/executor/nodeIndexscan.c.diff?r1=1.121&r2=1.122
> > )
> >     pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan:
> >         planner.c (r1.219 -> r1.220)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c.diff?r1=1.219&r2=1.220
> > )
> >     pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util:
> >         plancat.c (r1.134 -> r1.135)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c.diff?r1=1.134&r2=1.135
> > )
> >     pgsql/src/include/commands:
> >         explain.h (r1.30 -> r1.31)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/commands/explain.h.diff?r1=1.30&r2=1.31
> > )
> >     pgsql/src/include/optimizer:
> >         plancat.h (r1.43 -> r1.44)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/optimizer/plancat.h.diff?r1=1.43&r2=1.44
> > )
> >         planner.h (r1.39 -> r1.40)
> >         (
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/optimizer/planner.h.diff?r1=1.39&r2=1.40
> > )
> >
> > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
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> >

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