It is possible to determine the number of partitions which were
removed during this phase by observing the
<quote>Subplans Removed</quote> property in the
- <command>EXPLAIN</command> output. The query planner obtains locks for
- all partitions which are part of the plan. However, when the executor
- uses a cached plan, locks are only obtained on the partitions which
- remain after partition pruning done during the initialization phase of
- execution, i.e., the ones shown in the <command>EXPLAIN</command>
- output and not the ones referred to by the
- <quote>Subplans Removed</quote> property.
+ <command>EXPLAIN</command> output. It's important to note that any
+ partitions removed by the partition pruning done at this stage are
+ still locked at the beginning of execution.
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