Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom, you mentioned this should be a TODO item. Do we put it on our main
> TODO, and if so, in what section?
Optimizer/executor I guess. It's a pretty vague TODO though. We need
some way to consider alternative join orders for joins that do not
semantically commute. When I wrote that CVS log entry I was thinking
in terms of fixing the executor so that the joins actually could
commute, which would involve some way of separating the
force-vars-to-null behavior of an outer join from the actual execution
of the join. I don't know how practical that really is though (and
also I've got a feeling it likely would fall foul of some patent or
other). Or maybe it could be solved entirely in the planner, but I
don't have an idea of what the planner's internal representation would
have to look like to do that.
regards, tom lane
