Re: Improving planner variable handling - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Improving planner variable handling
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Msg-id 8712.1208359679@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Improving planner variable handling  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Improving planner variable handling  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I wonder if this would help to clean up the equivalence class hacks in 
> Greg's ordered append patch?

Pretty hard to say at this early stage, but the more I think about it
the more I like the idea of never using the same Var to represent two
values that aren't guaranteed equal.  The maybe-its-null business has
been a thorn in the side of any sort of close semantic analysis for
a long time, but somehow I never perceived what a bogus idea that was.
I'm almost more excited about that than about fixing the original
problem ...
        regards, tom lane


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