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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-09-17 20:49:29 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-09-17 20:49:29 +0000
commit488d70ab46311386801c10691196ec8d755f2283 (patch)
tree043fc65616c8690113e2b5c18222bcd230197c9b /src/include/optimizer
parente3f027115a5a5109527238886bde7f6d5b4a5b96 (diff)
downloadpostgresql-488d70ab46311386801c10691196ec8d755f2283.tar.gz
Implement "join removal" for cases where the inner side of a left join
is unique and is not referenced above the join. In this case the inner side doesn't affect the query result and can be thrown away entirely. Although perhaps nobody would ever write such a thing by hand, it's a reasonably common case in machine-generated SQL. The current implementation only recognizes the case where the inner side is a simple relation with a unique index matching the query conditions. This is enough for the use-cases that have been shown so far, but we might want to try to handle other cases later. Robert Haas, somewhat rewritten by Tom
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/optimizer')
-rw-r--r--src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h4
-rw-r--r--src/include/optimizer/paths.h4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h b/src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h
index b275b1dd49..8b71500407 100644
--- a/src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h
+++ b/src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h,v 1.80 2009/01/01 17:24:00 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h,v 1.81 2009/09/17 20:49:29 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ extern ResultPath *create_result_path(List *quals);
extern MaterialPath *create_material_path(RelOptInfo *rel, Path *subpath);
extern UniquePath *create_unique_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
Path *subpath, SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo);
+extern NoOpPath *create_noop_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
+ Path *subpath);
extern Path *create_subqueryscan_path(RelOptInfo *rel, List *pathkeys);
extern Path *create_functionscan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
extern Path *create_valuesscan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
diff --git a/src/include/optimizer/paths.h b/src/include/optimizer/paths.h
index cbc8214e9e..d9e91675f2 100644
--- a/src/include/optimizer/paths.h
+++ b/src/include/optimizer/paths.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/optimizer/paths.h,v 1.107 2009/06/11 14:49:11 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/optimizer/paths.h,v 1.108 2009/09/17 20:49:29 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ extern List *generate_bitmap_or_paths(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
extern void best_inner_indexscan(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
RelOptInfo *outer_rel, JoinType jointype,
Path **cheapest_startup, Path **cheapest_total);
+extern bool relation_has_unique_index_for(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
+ List *restrictlist);
extern List *group_clauses_by_indexkey(IndexOptInfo *index,
List *clauses, List *outer_clauses,
Relids outer_relids,