Re: [HACKERS] Some notes about redesigning planner data structures

2007-01-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:03:55PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I've been looking at improving the planner so that it can handle things > like backwards-order mergejoins, and I'm starting to realize that the > old assumption that mergejoinable operators had only one associated sort > ordering is wired

[HACKERS] Some notes about redesigning planner data structures

2007-01-11 Thread Tom Lane
I've been looking at improving the planner so that it can handle things like backwards-order mergejoins, and I'm starting to realize that the old assumption that mergejoinable operators had only one associated sort ordering is wired into even more places than I thought. In particular, the PathKeys