On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 5:44 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> I tried both of those and concluded they'd be too messy for a patch
> that we might find ourselves having to back-patch.  So 0001 attached
> fixes it by teaching SS_finalize_plan to treat optimized MIN()/MAX()
> aggregates as if they were already Params.  It's slightly annoying
> to have knowledge of that optimization metastasizing into another
> place, but the alternatives are even less palatable.


I tried with 0001 patch and can confirm that the wrong result issue
shown in [1] is fixed.

explain (costs off, verbose) select min(i) from a;
                        QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------
 Gather
   Output: ($0)
   Workers Planned: 1
   Params Evaluated: $0   <==== initplan params
   Single Copy: true
   InitPlan 1 (returns $0)
     ->  Limit
           Output: a.i
           ->  Index Only Scan using a_i_j_idx on public.a
                 Output: a.i
                 Index Cond: (a.i IS NOT NULL)
   ->  Result
         Output: $0
(13 rows)

Now the Gather.initParam is filled and e89a71fb4 does its work to
transmit the Params to workers.

So +1 to 0001 patch.


> I'm still resistant to the idea of kluging EXPLAIN to the extent
> of hiding the EXPLAIN output changes.  It wouldn't be that hard
> to do really, but I worry that such a kluge might hide real problems
> in future.  So what I did in 0002 was to allow initPlans for an
> injected Gather only if debug_parallel_query = on, so that there
> will be a place for EXPLAIN to show them.  Other than the changes
> in that area, 0002 is the same as the previous patch.


Also +1 to 0002 patch.

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMbWs48p-WpnLdR9ZQ4QsHZP_a-P0rktAYo4Z3uOHUAkH3fjQg%40mail.gmail.com

Thanks
Richard

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