Support boolean columns in functional-dependency statistics.
There's no good reason that the multicolumn stats stuff shouldn't work on
booleans. But it looked only for "Var = pseudoconstant" clauses, and it
will seldom find those for boolean Vars, since earlier phases of planning
will fold "boolvar = true" or "boolvar = false" to just "boolvar" or
"NOT boolvar" respectively. Improve dependencies_clauselist_selectivity()
to recognize such clauses as equivalent to equality restrictions.
This fixes a failure of the extended stats mechanism to apply in a case
reported by Vitaliy Garnashevich. It's not a complete solution to his
problem because the bitmap-scan costing code isn't consulting extended
stats where it should, but that's surely an independent issue.
In passing, improve some comments, get rid of a NumRelids() test that's
redundant with the preceding bms_membership() test, and fix
dependencies_clauselist_selectivity() so that estimatedclauses actually
is a pure output argument as stated by its API contract.
Back-patch to v10 where this code was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/73a4936d-2814-dc08-ed0c-978f76f435b0@gmail.com
Branch
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REL_10_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bf2b317f14bce456d07363e2050878dcb1078062
Modified Files
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src/backend/statistics/dependencies.c | 110 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
