Re: WIP Join Removal

Simon Riggs wrote:
> Patch works, but there's a bit I haven't finished yet - checking unique
> indexes.

Did plan invalidation make it safe to rely on the presence of a unique
index for planning decisions?

Couldn't we also do join removal for inner joins, when there's a foreign
key reference that enforces that there's one and only one matching tuple
in the removed table:

SELECT child.data FROM child, parent WHERE child.fkey = parent.pkey

?

> + /*
> + * We can now remove join by pulling up child plan from the keeprel.
> + * This needs to be done considering costs, since its possible for
> + * a nested inner indexscan plan to be cheaper. So it isn't
> + * always desirable to remove the join.

Can you elaborate that a bit? I can't imagine a case where we wouldn't
want to remove a join, when we know we can.

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