Should the optimizer optimize "current_date - interval '1 days'" (fwd)

From: Ron Mayer <ron(at)intervideo(dot)com>
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Cc: Ron Mayer <ron(at)intervideo(dot)com>
Subject: Should the optimizer optimize "current_date - interval '1 days'" (fwd)
Date: 2002-06-03 19:37:48
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0206031236310.12984-100000@ron
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On a very big table (a data warehouse with >10 million rows), I frequently
run queries looking at the past few days.

However queries like this:
select count(*)
from fact
where dat > (current_date - interval '1 days');
never uses the index I have on "fact". (Thanks to previous queries it's now
ordered by 'dat' so the correlation in pg_stats is '1'.).

However if I toss on an extra where clause with a constant like
select count(*)
from fact
where dat > (current_date - interval '1 days')
and dat > '2002-05-20';
it hapily uses the index (at least for the second comparison).

Should it treat my current_dat... expression as a constant and use
the index? Or is there a good reason it doesn't?

Thanks,
Ron

PS: This seems true even if I "set enable_seqscan to off".

logs2=# set enable_seqscan to off;
logs2=# explain
logs2-# select count(*) from fact
logs2-# where dat > (current_date - interval '1 days');
NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:

Aggregate (cost=101265332.77..101265332.77 rows=1 width=0)
-> Seq Scan on fact (cost=100000000.00..101231544.46 rows=13515325 width=0)

logs2=# explain
logs2-# select count(*)
logs2-# from fact
logs2-# where dat > (current_date - interval '1 days')
logs2-# and dat > '2002-05-20';
NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:

Aggregate (cost=198729.54..198729.54 rows=1 width=0)
-> Index Scan using i__fact__dat on fact (cost=0.00..194279.24
rows=1780119 width=0)

EXPLAIN
logs2=#

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