Re: constraint exclusion and nulls in IN (..) clause

On 2018/03/21 23:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com> writes:
>> I am not sure if we are covering the case when clause_const and
>> pred_const are both NULL. In this case, we should be able to return
>> true only by checking op_strict(pred_op) or maybe even without
>> checking that. Am I mistaken?
>
> Yeah, that's there. We need both operators to be strict, I think;
> otherwise we can't really assume anything about what they'd return
> for NULL inputs. But if they are, we have NULL => NULL which is
> valid for all proof cases.

Thank you for closing the CF entry.

I too wasn't sure if the patch's modifications to
operator_predicate_proof() led to correct handling for the case where both
clause_const and pred_const are both NULL consts. ISTM that the result in
that case becomes what operator_same_subexprs_proof() would return for the
pred_op (possibly commuted) and clause_op pair. But maybe we don't end up
in that case much.

Regards,
Amit