Re: [PATCH] Add support function for containment operators

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Kim Johan Andersson <kimjand@kimmet.dk>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-07-07T11:20:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I wrote:
> You implement both "SupportRequestIndexCondition" and "SupportRequestSimplify",
> but when I experimented, the former was never called.  That does not
> surprise me, since any expression of the shape "expr <@ range constant"
> can be simplified.  Is the "SupportRequestIndexCondition" branch dead code?
> If not, do you have an example that triggers it?

I had an idea about this:
So far, you only consider constant ranges.  But if we have a STABLE range
expression, you could use an index scan for "expr <@ range", for example
Index Cond (expr >= lower(range) AND expr < upper(range)).

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



Commits

  1. Add planner support functions for range operators <@ and @>.