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Fix equivclass.c's not-quite-right strategy for handling X=X clauses.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:20:34 +0000 (01:20 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:20:34 +0000 (01:20 +0000)
commit25549edb268d5d02de16ce2cab33fee24c6d0873
tree063b2b68e783c0bc1eaba79b4284013d22491306
parent176c3c8db95ee373c0fca412e395eb6a2499e660
Fix equivclass.c's not-quite-right strategy for handling X=X clauses.

The original coding correctly noted that these aren't just redundancies
(they're effectively X IS NOT NULL, assuming = is strict).  However, they
got treated that way if X happened to be in a single-member EquivalenceClass
already, which could happen if there was an ORDER BY X clause, for instance.
The simplest and most reliable solution seems to be to not try to process
such clauses through the EquivalenceClass machinery; just throw them back
for traditional processing.  The amount of work that'd be needed to be
smarter than that seems out of proportion to the benefit.

Per bug #5084 from Bernt Marius Johnsen, and analysis by Andrew Gierth.
src/backend/optimizer/README
src/backend/optimizer/path/equivclass.c
src/test/regress/expected/select.out
src/test/regress/sql/select.sql