> You can't just restart from scratch, because we may already have shipped > rows to the client
For v1, replanning wouldn't be an option if rows have already been shipped, or for DML statements. > parallel plans and most importantly cursors? Parallel plans look do-able with the same approach, but cursor use I'd probably stop replanning as soon as the first row is delivered to the client, as above. One could imagine more complex approaches like a limited size buffer of 'delivered' rows, allowing a new plan to be selected and the delivered rows excluded from the new plans resultset via a special extra prepending+dupe filtering execnode. The memory and computation costs of that execnode would be factored into the replanning decision like any other node. >errors if the physical location of a row correlates strongly with a column This is my largest concern. These cases already lead to large errors currently (SELECT * FROM foo WHERE created_date = today LIMIT 1) might scan all data, only to find all of today's records in the last physical block. It's hard to say if replacing one bad estimate with another will lead to overall better/worse results... My hope is that in most cases a bunch of plans will be tried, all end up with cost estimates revised up a lot, and then one settled on as rows start getting passed to upper layers. >underling node might return a totally inaccurate number of rows for index scans One might imagine using the last returned row as an extra histogram point when estimating how many rows are left in an index scan. That should at least make the estimate more accurate than it is without feedback. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
