Re: Hybrid Hash/Nested Loop joins and caching results from subplans

On 25/08/2020 20:48, David Rowley wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 08:26, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> While I'm against introducing a separate node for the caching, I'm *not*
>> against displaying a different node type when caching is
>> present. E.g. it'd be perfectly reasonable from my POV to have a 'Cached
>> Nested Loop' join and a plain 'Nested Loop' node in the above node. I'd
>> probably still want to display the 'Cache Key' similar to your example,
>> but I don't see how it'd be better to display it with one more
>> intermediary node.
> ...Well, this is difficult... For the record, in case anyone missed
> it, I'm pretty set on being against doing any node overloading for
> this.  I think it's a pretty horrid modularity violation regardless of
> what text appears in EXPLAIN. I think if we merge these nodes then we
> may as well go further and merge in other simple nodes like LIMIT.
> Then after a few iterations of that, we end up with with a single node
> in EXPLAIN that nobody can figure out what it does. "Here Be Dragons",
> as Tom said.  That might seem like a bit of an exaggeration, but it is
> important to understand that this would start us down that path, and
> the more steps you take down that path, the harder it is to return
> from it.
[...]
>
> I understand that you've voiced your feelings about this, but what I
> want to know is, how strongly do you feel about overloading the node?
> Will you stand in my way if I want to push ahead with the separate
> node?  Will anyone else?
>
> David
>
>
 From my own experience, and thinking about issues like this, I my 
thinking keeping them separate adds robustness wrt change. Presumably 
common code can be extracted out, to avoid excessive code duplication?

-- Gavin