Re: Check each of base restriction clauses for constant-FALSE-or-NULL

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 11:09 AM Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you mean the const-folding?  It happens in the preprocessing phase,
> specifically in eval_const_expressions().

Thanks.

> Hm, I don't think so.  get_gating_quals is called in createplan.c, where
> we've selected the best path, while the optimization with my code
> happens much earlier, when we set size estimates for a base relation.
> Neither of these two is a duplicate of the other.  I think the theory
> here is that it's always a win to mark a rel as dummy if possible as
> early as we can.

Right. Do you have an example where this could be demonstrated?

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