Re: POC, WIP: OR-clause support for indexes

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-01-28T11:16:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Make group_similar_or_args() reorder clause list as little as possible

  2. Allow usage of match_orclause_to_indexcol() for joins

  3. Skip not SOAP-supported indexes while transforming an OR clause into SAOP

  4. Remove the wrong assertion from match_orclause_to_indexcol()

  5. Teach bitmap path generation about transforming OR-clauses to SAOP's

  6. Transform OR-clauses to SAOP's during index matching

  7. Fix the value of or_to_any_transform_limit in postgresql.conf.sample

  8. Transform OR clauses to ANY expression

  9. MergeAttributes code deduplication

  10. SEARCH and CYCLE clauses

  11. Improve estimation of OR clauses using extended statistics.

  12. Teach btree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively.

  13. Revise collation derivation method and expression-tree representation.

  14. Instead of trying to force WHERE clauses into CNF or DNF normal form,

I think this is very exciting stuff, but since you didn't submit an
updated patch after David's review, I'm closing it for now as
returned-with-feedback.  Please submit a new version once you have it.

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