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Re: Removing unneeded self joins

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alexander Kuzmenkov <a.kuzmenkov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-05-16T20:10:45Z
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  1. Remove GUC_NOT_IN_SAMPLE from enable_self_join_elimination

  2. Put enable_self_join_elimination into postgresql.conf.sample

  3. Get rid of ojrelid local variable in remove_rel_from_query()

  4. Implement Self-Join Elimination

  5. Revert: Remove useless self-joins

  6. Replace lateral references to removed rels in subqueries

  7. Replace relids in lateral subquery parse tree during SJE

  8. Forbid SJE with result relation

  9. Fix misuse of RelOptInfo.unique_for_rels cache by SJE

  10. Replace the relid in some missing fields during SJE

  11. Revert 56-bit relfilenode change and follow-up commits.

  12. Stabilize timetz test across DST transitions.

  13. Speed up finding EquivalenceClasses for a given set of rels

  14. Fix mark-and-restore-skipping test case to not be a self-join.

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> What I would add is that I've seen cases where the extra joins do NOT
> hurt performance, so the extra CPU used to remove the join hurts more
> than the benefit of removing it. Yes, we tried it.

Interesting.  The concern I had was more about the cost imposed on every
query to detect self-joins and try to prove them useless, even in queries
where no benefit ensues.  It's possible that we can get that down to the
point where it's negligible; but this says that even the successful-proof
case has to be very cheap.

			regards, tom lane