Re: Rearranging simple where clauses

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 11:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, you failed to show us any concrete examples of the cases you
> were looking at, but no I don't think the planner necessarily likes
> "all the constants on one side".  Most likely the win cases are where
> one side of a WHERE-condition operator exactly matches an index, so
> you'd need to be looking for places where rearrangement could make
> that happen.

The reason I never showed you any was because I don't have any I was
just curious.  But yeah making one side match an index exactly is
probably the biggest win.

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Michael Graham <mgraham@bloxx.com>