Re: [PATCH] Add support function for containment operators

On 07-07-2023 13:20, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> I wrote:
>> You implement both "SupportRequestIndexCondition" and "SupportRequestSimplify",
>> but when I experimented, the former was never called.  That does not
>> surprise me, since any expression of the shape "expr <@ range constant"
>> can be simplified.  Is the "SupportRequestIndexCondition" branch dead code?
>> If not, do you have an example that triggers it?

I would think it is dead code, I came to the same conclusion. So we can
drop SupportRequestIndexCondition, since the simplification happens to
take care of everything.

> I had an idea about this:
> So far, you only consider constant ranges. But if we have a STABLE range
> expression, you could use an index scan for "expr <@ range", for example
> Index Cond (expr >= lower(range) AND expr < upper(range)).
>

I will try to look into this. Originally that was what I was hoping for,
but didn't see way of going about it.

Thanks for your comments, I will also look at the locale-related
breakage you spotted.

Regards,
Kimjand