"Frank van Vugt" <ftm.van.vugt@foxi.nl> writes:
> Since the left side of the join clause is composed out of three concatenated
> text-parts resulting in one single piece of type text, I'd expect the
> planner to avoid the nested loop.
Probably not, since the first thing it does is to flatten the
sub-select, leaving it with a concatenation expression in the
WHERE-clause. (I was too sleepy last night to realize that you
were comparing a concatenation to old_id, rather than making two
separate comparisons :-()
We really need to fix the planner to be able to do merge/hash on
"arbitrary expression = arbitrary expression", not only "Var = Var".
IIRC, this is doable in principle, but there are a few routines that
would need to be improved.
regards, tom lane
