On 2013-03-29 19:03:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Those columns cannot be NULL, so using IS DISTINCT FROM seems a bit
> > clumsy.
>
> That was what I started to write, too, but actually I think the IS
> DISTINCT is correct and the RIGHT JOIN should be a LEFT JOIN. Note
> that the query appears to be intended to collect regular tables as
> well as indexes. (As patched, that's totally broken, so I infer
> Bruce hasn't tested it yet.)
Ah yes. Then I'd actually find it much more readable to formulate it as a NOT
EXISTS(), but that might be just me.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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