From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
Cc: | David Rowley <drowley(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Add better handling of redundant IS [NOT] NULL quals |
Date: | 2024-01-23 19:38:54 |
Message-ID: | 4071562.1706038734@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> On 2024-Jan-23, David Rowley wrote:
>> Until now PostgreSQL has not been very smart about optimizing away IS
>> NOT NULL base quals on columns defined as NOT NULL.
> Hmm, what happens if a NOT NULL constraint is dropped and you have such
> a plan in plancache? As I recall, lack of a mechanism to invalidate
> such plans was the main reason for Postgres not to have this.
IIRC, we realized that that concern was bogus. Removal of such
constraints would cause pg_attribute.attnotnull to change, leading
to a relcache invalidation on the table, forcing replan. If anyone
tried to get rid of attnotnull or make it incompletely reliable,
then we'd have problems; but AFAIK that's not being contemplated.
regards, tom lane
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