Re: SLOPE - Planner optimizations on monotonic expressions.

From: Alexandre Felipe <o(dot)alexandre(dot)felipe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt(dot)parragi(at)percona(dot)com>
Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SLOPE - Planner optimizations on monotonic expressions.
Date: 2026-05-10 15:53:49
Message-ID: CAE8JnxNhturjd3qL5O17NHVorqGk9Yr6yPai1AfN4-6T3Gue+Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 11:19 PM Zsolt Parragi <zsolt(dot)parragi(at)percona(dot)com>
wrote:

> I found one more corner case with infinities (same applies also with
> negative infinity):
>

This will restrict a lot of cases.

slope_corner_cases.sql enumerate experssions and orders producing
permutations of (-inf, -1, 0, 1, +inf, nan) mapped to (1,2,3,4,5,6)
to visualize other similar corner cases.

Apparently the violations boil down to two cases
* All basic arithmetic operations with infinity constant (with a lucky
exception x - inf)
* Every decreasing function where the index key.
e.g. `-x desc` would have NaNs first

Should I simply detect and disable the above cases?

sqrt(x < 0) already raise an exception, is it safe to assume that for all
the limited domain functions?

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slope_corner_cases.sql application/octet-stream 3.9 KB

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