Fix thinko in previous patch for optimizing EXISTS-within-EXISTS.
When recursing after an optimization in pull_up_sublinks_qual_recurse, the
available_rels value passed down must include only the relations that are
in the righthand side of the new SEMI or ANTI join; it's incorrect to pull
up a sub-select that refers to other relations, as seen in the added test
case. Per report from BangarRaju Vadapalli.
While at it, rethink the idea of recursing below a NOT EXISTS. That is
essentially the same situation as pulling up ANY/EXISTS sub-selects that
are in the ON clause of an outer join, and it has the same disadvantage:
we'd force the two joins to be evaluated according to the syntactic nesting
order, because the lower join will most likely not be able to commute with
the ANTI join. That could result in having to form a rather large join
product, whereas the handling of a correlated subselect is not quite that
dumb. So until we can handle those cases better, #ifdef NOT_USED that
case. (I think it's okay to pull up in the EXISTS/ANY cases, because SEMI
joins aren't so inflexible about ordering.)
Back-patch to 8.4, same as for previous patch in this area. Fortunately
that patch hadn't made it into any shipped releases yet.
Branch
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REL8_4_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0dec3226ee905f94d0b9d6e2f274e13bbcaf5370
Modified Files
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src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepjointree.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
src/test/regress/expected/subselect.out | 12 ++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/subselect.sql | 9 +++++++++
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)