Use appendrel planning logic for top-level UNION ALL structures.
Formerly, we could convert a UNION ALL structure inside a subquery-in-FROM
into an appendrel, as a side effect of pulling up the subquery into its
parent; but top-level UNION ALL always caused use of plan_set_operations().
That didn't matter too much because you got an Append-based plan either
way. However, now that the appendrel code can do things with MergeAppend,
it's worthwhile to hack up the top-level case so it also uses appendrels.
This is a bit of a stopgap; but going much further than this will require
a major rewrite of the planner's set-operations support, which I'm not
prepared to undertake now. For the moment let's grab the low-hanging fruit.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=947d0c862c895618a874344322e7b07c9df05cb2
Modified Files
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src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c | 11 +++-
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepjointree.c | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
src/include/optimizer/prep.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)