Re: Soon-to-be-broken regression test case

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Soon-to-be-broken regression test case
Date: 2018-10-11 17:19:11
Message-ID: 8265.1539278351@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2018-Oct-11, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm, I'm not seeing any regression test result changes there. However,
>> if you're just executing queries and not EXPLAIN'ing them, it's possible
>> something unwanted is happening under the hood.

> Hmm, no, the explains are there. Here's one example -- maybe your new
> planner smarts do not change these plans for some reason

Oh, I see --- these are just "scalar-result sub-SELECTs", not
sub-select-in-FROM, so they never get into the join tree to begin with.
WHERE EXISTS is an exception because we attempt to translate it to a
JOIN_SEMI join, exposing an opportunity for subquery pullup.

regards, tom lane

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