Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> The Gather node, as currently committed, is neither projection-capable
> nor listed as an exception in is_projection_capable_plan. Amit
> discovered this in testing, and I hit it in my testing as well. We
> could just mark it as being not projection-capable, but I think it
> might be better to go the other way and give it projection
> capabilities.
Um ... why would you not want the projections to happen in the child
nodes, where they could be parallelized? Or am I missing something?
> While that's not the end of the world, it seems to needlessly fly in
> the face of the general principle that nodes should generally try to
> support projection.
I'm not sure there is any such principle.
regards, tom lane
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