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Revise the planner's handling of "pseudoconstant" WHERE clauses, that is

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clauses containing no variables and no volatile functions.  Such a clause
can be used as a one-time qual in a gating Result plan node, to suppress
plan execution entirely when it is false.  Even when the clause is true,
putting it in a gating node wins by avoiding repeated evaluation of the
clause.  In previous PG releases, query_planner() would do this for
pseudoconstant clauses appearing at the top level of the jointree, but
there was no ability to generate a gating Result deeper in the plan tree.
To fix it, get rid of the special case in query_planner(), and instead
process pseudoconstant clauses through the normal RestrictInfo qual
distribution mechanism.  When a pseudoconstant clause is found attached to
a path node in create_plan(), pull it out and generate a gating Result at
that point.  This requires special-casing pseudoconstants in selectivity
estimation and cost_qual_eval, but on the whole it's pretty clean.
It probably even makes the planner a bit faster than before for the normal
case of no pseudoconstants, since removing pull_constant_clauses saves one
useless traversal of the qual tree.  Per gripe from Phil Frost.
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Tom Lane
2006-07-01 18:38:33 +00:00
parent 68628fc38e
commit cffd89ca73
20 changed files with 464 additions and 294 deletions
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src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c,v 1.200 2006/06/28 20:04:38 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c,v 1.201 2006/07/01 18:38:33 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -270,6 +270,9 @@ subquery_planner(Query *parse, double tuple_fraction,
*/
root->hasHavingQual = (parse->havingQual != NULL);
/* Clear this flag; might get set in distribute_qual_to_rels */
root->hasPseudoConstantQuals = false;
/*
* Do expression preprocessing on targetlist and quals.
*/