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Until now PostgreSQL has not been very smart about optimizing away IS NOT NULL base quals on columns defined as NOT NULL. The evaluation of these needless quals adds overhead. Ordinarily, anyone who came complaining about that would likely just have been told to not include the qual in their query if it's not required. However, a recent bug report indicates this might not always be possible. Bug 17540 highlighted that when we optimize Min/Max aggregates the IS NOT NULL qual that the planner adds to make the rewritten plan ignore NULLs can cause issues with poor index choice. That particular case demonstrated that other quals, especially ones where no statistics are available to allow the planner a chance at estimating an approximate selectivity for can result in poor index choice due to cheap startup paths being prefered with LIMIT 1. Here we take generic approach to fixing this by having the planner check for NOT NULL columns and just have the planner remove these quals (when they're not needed) for all queries, not just when optimizing Min/Max aggregates. Additionally, here we also detect IS NULL quals on a NOT NULL column and transform that into a gating qual so that we don't have to perform the scan at all. This also works for join relations when the Var is not nullable by any outer join. This also helps with the self-join removal work as it must replace strict join quals with IS NOT NULL quals to ensure equivalence with the original query. Author: David Rowley, Richard Guo, Andy Fan Reviewed-by: Richard Guo, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqg6XZDhYRPz0zgOcevSMo0d3vxA9DvHrZtKfqO30WTnw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17540-7aa1855ad5ec18b4%40postgresql.org |
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README
PostgreSQL tests ================ This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin. Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see which tests get run automatically. authentication/ Tests for authentication (but see also below) examples/ Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via "make check" isolation/ Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level kerberos/ Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption ldap/ Tests for LDAP-based authentication locale/ Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc mb/ Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support modules/ Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable for installing in production databases perl/ Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests recovery/ Test suite for recovery and replication regress/ PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress ssl/ Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling subscription/ Tests for logical replication