Re: constraint exclusion and nulls in IN (..) clause

Amit Langote  writes:
> I too wasn't sure if the patch's modifications to
> operator_predicate_proof() led to correct handling for the case where both
> clause_const and pred_const are both NULL consts.  ISTM that the result in
> that case becomes what operator_same_subexprs_proof() would return for the
> pred_op (possibly commuted) and clause_op pair.  But maybe we don't end up
> in that case much.

Probably not.  It's hard to get to this type of case at all, because in
most cases, if we have a null constant as a subexpression, previous
const-simplification would have replaced the whole expression with null.
I think in practice it's only interesting when the upper levels of
predtest.c have constructed an operator expression out of parts of the
given clauses, which is exactly what happens for cases like IN-lists.

			regards, tom lane