> On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 11:47:07AM +0100, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
>
> The original version of the patch was doing all of this, i.e. handling
> numerics, Param nodes, RTE_VALUES. The commentary about
> find_const_walker in tests is referring to a part of that, that was
> dealing with evaluation of expression to see if it could be reduced to a
> constant.
>
> Unfortunately there was a significant push back from reviewers because
> of those features. That's why I've reduced the patch to it's minimally
> useful version, having in mind re-implementing them as follow-up patches
> in the future. This is the reason as well why I left tests covering all
> this missing functionality -- as breadcrumbs to already discovered
> cases, important for the future extensions.
I'd like to elaborate on this a bit and remind about the origins of the
patch, as it's lost somewhere in the beginning of the thread. The idea
is not pulled out of thin air, everything is coming from our attempts to
improve one particular monitoring infrastructure in a real commercial
setting. Every covered use case and test in the original proposal was a
result of field trials, when some application-side library or ORM was
responsible for gigabytes of data in pgss, chocking the monitoring agent.