Re: Pathify RHS unique-ification for semijoin planning

Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>

From: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>

To: Alexandra Wang <alexandra.wang.oss@gmail.com>

Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andy Fan <zhihuifan1213@163.com>, wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com>

Date: 2025-08-12T01:43:06Z

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Simplify relation_has_unique_index_for()
- bf9ee294e567 19 (unreleased) landed
Pathify RHS unique-ification for semijoin planning
- 24225ad9aafc 19 (unreleased) landed
Convert varatt.h access macros to static inline functions.
- e035863c9a04 19 (unreleased) cited
Re-export a few of createplan.c's make_xxx() functions.
- 570be1f73f38 9.6.0 cited

On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> The v5 patch does not apply anymore, and here is a new rebase.  There
> are two main changes in v6:
>
> * I choose to use the check I proposed earlier to determine whether a
> relation has been unique-ified in costsize.c.
>
> * Now that the only call to relation_has_unique_index_for() that
> supplied an exprlist and oprlist has been removed, the loop handling
> those lists is effectively dead code.  0002 removes that loop and
> simplifies the function accordingly.

Does anyone plan to review this patch further?  I intend to push it in
two weeks unless there are any objections or additional comments.

Thanks
Richard