Re: Factoring where clauses through UNIONS take 2

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Factoring where clauses through UNIONS take 2
Date: 2003-04-24 23:48:29
Message-ID: 3600.1051228109@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I said:
> In this particular case, since the qual doesn't actually touch the
> type-converted column, it would have been safe to push down, but the
> planner doesn't make this test on a per-qual basis: if there are type
> conversions anywhere in the UNION it just punts.

CVS tip has now had its consciousness raised on this point ;-). Turns
out that it's not significantly more expensive to apply the test to
individual vars instead of having a blanket check on the whole query,
so I fixed it.

Jonathan will still need to put the explicit casts into his view for
use with 7.3.*, though. He probably should do that anyway, because
even in 7.4 a restriction on the "type" column would not get pushed
down as desired if the literals are UNKNOWN type.

regards, tom lane

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