Re: constraint exclusion and nulls in IN (..) clause - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: constraint exclusion and nulls in IN (..) clause
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Msg-id 12286.1521640841@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: constraint exclusion and nulls in IN (..) clause  (Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com>)
Responses Re: constraint exclusion and nulls in IN (..) clause  (Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com>)
Re: constraint exclusion and nulls in IN (..) clause  (Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>)
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Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com> writes:
> I am not sure if we are covering the case when clause_const and
> pred_const are both NULL.  In this case, we should be able to return
> true only by checking op_strict(pred_op) or maybe even without
> checking that.  Am I mistaken?

Yeah, that's there.  We need both operators to be strict, I think;
otherwise we can't really assume anything about what they'd return
for NULL inputs.  But if they are, we have NULL => NULL which is
valid for all proof cases.

            regards, tom lane


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