On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Upon closer look, it seems that we do not need the syntactic scope
> check at all, as long as we ensure that phnullingrels is empty. In
> this case, the PHV is either a no-op (from a reduced outer join) or
> used for identity separation (grouping sets). In either case, the PHV
> is transparent regarding the value, so it should not prevent the
> underlying expression from matching the index.
Here is the updated version along the lines of this idea.
- Richard