David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 15:54, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> 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?
No, the larger issue is that *any* plan node above the Append might
be recursing down to/through the Append to find out what to print for
a Var reference. We have to be able to support that.
regards, tom lane