Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> writes:
> This patch can also simplify my other patch, which is to avoid
> unnecessary wrapping for plain Vars/PHVs. We can check the new
> nullingrel_info to see if the nullingrels of the subquery RTE are a
> subset of the nullingrels of the lateral referenced rel, to determine
> if the referenced rel is under the same lowest nulling outer join.
> And this eliminates the need to introduce lowest_nullable_side.
Right, because that's more or less the same problem. Or indeed
it's exactly the same problem, we're just making fast paths for
the easiest cases.
Another thought: the reason I made get_nullingrels return a new
struct rather than tying it directly to filling some fields in
pullup_replace_vars_context was that I think we might want to
reconsider where to call it from. Perhaps it'd be useful to
have the info during is_simple_subquery, for example.
regards, tom lane
