"Anton A. Melnikov" <aamelnikov@inbox.ru> writes:
> The thing is that for custom scan nodes as readme says:
> "INDEX_VAR is abused to signify references to columns of a custom scan tuple type"
> But INDEX_VAR has a negative value, so it can not be used in varnullingrels bitmapset.
> And therefore this improvement seems will not work with custom scan nodes and some
> extensions that use such nodes.
Under what circumstances would you be trying to inject INDEX_VAR
into a nullingrel set? Only outer-join relids should ever appear there.
AFAICS the change you propose would serve only to mask bugs.
regards, tom lane
