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From tgl@postgresql.org (Tom Lane)
Subject pgsql: Fix another semijoin-ordering bug.
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Msg-id 20090721020251.D5AF775331E@cvs.postgresql.org
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Log Message:
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Fix another semijoin-ordering bug.  We already knew that we couldn't
reorder a semijoin into or out of the righthand side of another semijoin,
but actually it doesn't work to reorder it into or out of the righthand
side of a left or antijoin, either.  Per bug #4906 from Mathieu Fenniak.

This was sloppy thinking on my part.  This identity does work:

    ( A left join B on (Pab) ) semijoin C on (Pac)
==
    ( A semijoin C on (Pac) ) left join B on (Pab)

but I failed to see that that doesn't mean this does:

    ( A left join B on (Pab) ) semijoin C on (Pbc)
!=
    A left join ( B semijoin C on (Pbc) ) on (Pab)

Tags:
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REL8_4_STABLE

Modified Files:
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    pgsql/src/backend/optimizer:
        README (r1.49 -> r1.49.2.1)
        (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/README?r1=1.49&r2=1.49.2.1)
    pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan:
        initsplan.c (r1.154 -> r1.154.2.1)
        (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/initsplan.c?r1=1.154&r2=1.154.2.1)

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