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Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replace
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:48:00 +0000 (18:48 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:48:00 +0000 (18:48 +0000)
commite006a24ad152b3faec748afe8c1ff0829699b2e6
treed00e01d25270b4b04aac3c723b9e440a56d8a085
parentef1c807c25b47960aa86cd185fb74371e88d0cbf
Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor.  (Semijoins replace
the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.)  Teach the planner
to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti
joins respectively.  Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL
filters are recognized as being anti joins.  Unify the InClauseInfo and
OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo".  With that change,
it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt,
which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation.  That needs to be
taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the
API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a
separate patch.  So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and
especially anti joins are quite bogus.
40 files changed:
doc/src/sgml/indexam.sgml
src/backend/commands/explain.c
src/backend/executor/nodeHashjoin.c
src/backend/executor/nodeMergejoin.c
src/backend/executor/nodeNestloop.c
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/list.c
src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c
src/backend/optimizer/README
src/backend/optimizer/path/clausesel.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/joinpath.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/orindxpath.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/createplan.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/initsplan.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planmain.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepjointree.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/relnode.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/var.c
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c
src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
src/include/nodes/nodes.h
src/include/nodes/pg_list.h
src/include/nodes/relation.h
src/include/optimizer/clauses.h
src/include/optimizer/cost.h
src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h
src/include/optimizer/paths.h
src/include/optimizer/planmain.h
src/include/optimizer/prep.h
src/include/optimizer/subselect.h
src/include/utils/selfuncs.h