Re: Reduce "Var IS [NOT] NULL" quals during constant folding

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tender Wang <tndrwang(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reduce "Var IS [NOT] NULL" quals during constant folding
Date: 2025-04-10 20:07:25
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZUNpgTMhm=Qd9mOkndHMW6=ghgfSgX_ZMq=COiONOcAQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > A related point that I'm noticing is that you record the not-NULL
> > information in the RangeTblEntry.
>
> Did we not just complain about that w.r.t. the v1 version of this
> patch? RangeTblEntry is not where to store this info. We need
> a new data structure, and IMO the data structure should be a hashtable
> based on table OID, not relid. That way we can amortize across
> multiple references to the same table within a query.

It's not quite the same complaint, because the earlier complaint was
that it was actually being done at parse time, and this complaint is
that it is scribbling on a parse-time data structure.

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Robert Haas
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