Re: IS NOT DISTINCT FROM + Indexing

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: IS NOT DISTINCT FROM + Indexing
Date: 2014-07-22 00:02:25
Message-ID: CAM3SWZQrrdTZ-BR9L+rS5ZAxz7_x0Ysijwvc+vj46bLrtK1f+Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> I rather doubt it will. x in (y1, ... yn) is essentially expanded to x =
> y1 OR x = y2, ... OR x = yn. I.e. the NULL comparison will be done using
> normal equality comparison and thus not return a row with a NULL
> orderid. Am I missing something?

I was a little bit incautious in my use of words. The point is that a
scanKey could easily represent a ScalarArrayOpExpr with NULLs and
non-NULLs.
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Peter Geoghegan

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