Re: pgsql: Fix O(N^2) performance issue in pg_publication_tables view.

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:47 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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> Fix O(N^2) performance issue in pg_publication_tables view.
>
> The original coding of this view relied on a correlated IN sub-query.
> Our planner is not very bright about correlated sub-queries, and even
> if it were, there's no way for it to know that the output of
> pg_get_publication_tables() is duplicate-free, making the de-duplicating
> semantics of IN unnecessary.  Hence, rewrite as a LATERAL sub-query.
> This provides circa 100X speedup for me with a few hundred published
> tables (the whole regression database), and things would degrade as
> roughly O(published_relations * all_relations) beyond that.
>
> Because the rules.out expected output changes, force a catversion bump.
> Ordinarily we might not want to do that post-beta1; but we already know
> we'll be doing a catversion bump before beta2 to fix pg_statistic_ext
> issues, so it's pretty much free to fix it now instead of waiting for v13.
>
> Per report and fix suggestion from PegoraroF10.
>
> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1551385426763-0.post@n3.nabble.com
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> Branch
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> master
>
> Details
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> https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/166f69f769c83ef8759d905bf7f1a9aa1d97a340
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> Modified Files
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> src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql | 7 ++++---
> src/include/catalog/catversion.h     | 2 +-
> src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>

Just one doubt, why use LATERAL with pg_get_publication_tables SRF instead of JOIN direct to pg_publication_rel?

Regards,