Re: BUG #14608: no index scan with NOT IN and ENUM

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas(at)lucas-nussbaum(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #14608: no index scan with NOT IN and ENUM
Date: 2017-04-01 17:57:33
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZAJ=d+AqxAM0vXG48b1WNJPff=ioAiyHNb0scwC5XkcA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas(at)lucas-nussbaum(dot)net>
wrote:

> Note, though, that such reasoning is done for boolean values. For
> example, "b <> false" seems to be converted to "b = true" if that makes
> it possible to use an index. But I also see how simplifying boolean
> expressions makes more sense than rewriting ENUM-based expressions.
>

​In particular one doesn't need a system catalog to know the possible
values of boolean and being only two never changing options there is an
implicit immutable negator function.

David J.

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