Improve OR conditions on joined columns.

I've a client interested enough in $SUBJECT that they're willing to
offer a bounty on it. An example of the pain is (working example attached):

create temp view denorm as
select f.*, d1.t t1, d2.t t2
from fact f
left join dim d1 on f1=d1.id
left join dim d2 on f2=d2.id
;

-- Fast
explain analyze select count(*) from denorm where 1 in (f1,f2);
explain analyze select count(*) from denorm where '1' in (t1);

-- Slow
explain analyze select count(*) from denorm where '1' in (t1,t2);

They currently work around this by doing a union:

select ... from denorm where t1 = '1'
union
select ... from denorm where t2 = '1'

... or depending on needs using IN instead of =.

AFAICT this can be transformed into a UNION (not all) if dim.id is
unique. Does the upper planner pathification make this any easier?
There's another transform using arrays that's possible as well (see
attached example); I believe that would work regardless of uniqueness.

Just to be clear; the OR by itself is not a problem (as shown by the
first fast query); it's the OR with the JOIN that's a problem.
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