Re: [GENERAL] Performance of full outer join in 8.3

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 12:34 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> On further review, this did work in 8.3 when released.  I think it got
> broken here:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-06/msg00336.php
> 
> because that change is preventing the "mergedvar = constant" clause from
> being seen as an equivalence, when it should be seen as one.  Need to
> think about a tighter fix for the bug report that prompted that change.

I've always been scared to ask this question, in case the answer is No,
but: Do we have a set of regression tests for the optimizer anywhere?

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