Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replace
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:48:00 +0000 (18:48 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:48:00 +0000 (18:48 +0000)
commit6efc5679ef841698110f9cda272719aafd4e9970
treeb07288f56276469c5e4efdfb3dd82e4263234a0f
parent5ebc7dab315342944fdf90469e94c5bff2307092
Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor.  (Semijoins replace
the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.)  Teach the planner
to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti
joins respectively.  Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL
filters are recognized as being anti joins.  Unify the InClauseInfo and
OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo".  With that change,
it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt,
which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation.  That needs to be
taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the
API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a
separate patch.  So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and
especially anti joins are quite bogus.
40 files changed:
doc/src/sgml/indexam.sgml
src/backend/commands/explain.c
src/backend/executor/nodeHashjoin.c
src/backend/executor/nodeMergejoin.c
src/backend/executor/nodeNestloop.c
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/list.c
src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c
src/backend/optimizer/README
src/backend/optimizer/path/clausesel.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/joinpath.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/orindxpath.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/createplan.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/initsplan.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planmain.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepjointree.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/relnode.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/var.c
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c
src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
src/include/nodes/nodes.h
src/include/nodes/pg_list.h
src/include/nodes/relation.h
src/include/optimizer/clauses.h
src/include/optimizer/cost.h
src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h
src/include/optimizer/paths.h
src/include/optimizer/planmain.h
src/include/optimizer/prep.h
src/include/optimizer/subselect.h
src/include/utils/selfuncs.h