On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 4:48 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Dilip Kumar <dilipbal...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Dilip Kumar <dilipbal...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Either we can pass "num_gene" to merge_clump or we can store num_gene
> >> in the root. And inside merge_clump we can check. Do you see some more
> >> complexity?
> >>
>
> I think something like that should work.

Ok

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>
> > After putting some more thought I see one more problem but not sure
> > whether we can solve it easily. Now, if we skip generating the gather
> > path at top level node then our cost comparison while adding the
> > element to pool will not be correct as we are skipping some of the
> > paths (gather path).  And, it's very much possible that the path1 is
> > cheaper than path2 without adding gather on top of it but with gather,
> > path2 can be cheaper.
> >
>
> I think that should not matter because the costing of gather is mainly
> based on a number of rows and that should be same for both path1 and
> path2 in this case.


Yeah, I think you are right.

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> Amit Kapila.
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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
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