Using canonicalize_qual() to get rid of duplicate index predicate

conditions is overkill; set_union() does the job about as well, and
much more efficiently.  Furthermore this avoids assuming that
canonicalize_qual() will check for duplicate clauses at all, which
it may not always do.
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Tom Lane 2003-12-29 22:22:45 +00:00
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*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c,v 1.151 2003/12/28 21:57:37 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c,v 1.152 2003/12/29 22:22:45 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -3901,23 +3901,22 @@ genericcostestimate(Query *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
/*
* If the index is partial, AND the index predicate with the
* explicitly given indexquals to produce a more accurate idea of the
* index restriction. This may produce redundant clauses, which we
* hope that canonicalize_qual and clauselist_selectivity will deal with
* intelligently.
* index selectivity. This may produce redundant clauses. We can get
* rid of exact duplicates by using set_union(). We expect that most
* cases of partial redundancy (such as "x < 4" from the qual and
* "x < 5" from the predicate) will be recognized and handled correctly
* by clauselist_selectivity(). This assumption is somewhat fragile,
* since it depends on pred_test() and clauselist_selectivity() having
* similar capabilities, and there are certainly many cases where we will
* end up with a too-low selectivity estimate. This will bias the system
* in favor of using partial indexes where possible, which is not
* necessarily a bad thing. But it'd be nice to do better someday.
*
* Note that index->indpred and indexQuals are both in implicit-AND form
* to start with, which we have to make explicit to hand to
* canonicalize_qual, and then we convert back to implicit-AND form.
* Note that index->indpred and indexQuals are both in implicit-AND form,
* so ANDing them together just takes merging the lists.
*/
if (index->indpred != NIL)
{
Expr *andedQuals;
andedQuals = make_ands_explicit(nconc(listCopy(index->indpred),
indexQuals));
andedQuals = canonicalize_qual(andedQuals);
selectivityQuals = make_ands_implicit(andedQuals);
}
selectivityQuals = set_union(index->indpred, indexQuals);
/* Estimate the fraction of main-table tuples that will be visited */
*indexSelectivity = clauselist_selectivity(root, selectivityQuals,