Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> it would be stupid to put a filter on that node rather than its >> children, but I see this in both nodeGather.c and nodeGatherMerge.c: >> >> gatherstate->ps.qual = >> ExecInitQual(node->plan.qual, (PlanState *) gatherstate); >> >> It doesn't look like the qual is actually used anywhere in either node >> type. Am I right in thinking this is dead code?
> I also think so. I think this was required in some initial versions > of gather node patch where we were thinking of having a single node > (instead of what we have now that Gather node and beneath there will > be partial scan node) to perform parallel scans. Thanks for confirming. I'll replace that with something like Assert(!node->plan.qual). I have some other code-review-ish fixes to do in nodeGatherMerge, too. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers