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0.01 was unrealistically low as it's the same as the default cpu_tuple_cost and 10x cheaper than the default parallel_tuple_cost. It's hard to imagine a situation where fetching a tuple from a foreign server would be cheaper than fetching one from a parallel worker. After some experimentation on a loopback server, somewhere between 0.15 and 0.3 seems more realistic. Here we split the difference and set it to 0.2. This will cause operations that reduce the number of tuples (e.g. aggregation) to be more likely to take place on the foreign server. Adjusting this causes some plan changes in the postgres_fdw regression tests. This is because penalizing each Path with the additional tuple costs causes some dilution of the costs of the other operations being charged for and results in various paths appearing to be closer to the same costs such that add_path's STD_FUZZ_FACTOR is more likely to see two paths as costing (fuzzily) the same. This isn't ideal, but it shouldn't be reason enough to use artificially low costs. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvopVjjfh5c1Ed2HRvDdfom2dEpMwwiu5-f1AnmYprJngA@mail.gmail.com
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.