From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Temporarily (I hope) disable flattening of IN/EXISTS sublinks |
Date: | 2009-03-28 19:28:33 |
Message-ID: | 200903281928.n2SJSXB15081@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom, you mentioned this should be a TODO item. Do we put it on our main
> > TODO, and if so, in what section?
>
> Optimizer/executor I guess. It's a pretty vague TODO though. We need
> some way to consider alternative join orders for joins that do not
> semantically commute. When I wrote that CVS log entry I was thinking
> in terms of fixing the executor so that the joins actually could
> commute, which would involve some way of separating the
> force-vars-to-null behavior of an outer join from the actual execution
> of the join. I don't know how practical that really is though (and
> also I've got a feeling it likely would fall foul of some patent or
> other). Or maybe it could be solved entirely in the planner, but I
> don't have an idea of what the planner's internal representation would
> have to look like to do that.
Yea, this is beyond the detail we normally put in the TODO list. If we
want to add this I am afraid we will need to document other optimizer
items as well.
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