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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: Improve nbtree unsatisfiable RowCompare detection.
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:39:07 +0000
Message-ID: <E1tVBff-000LNp-II@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)

Improve nbtree unsatisfiable RowCompare detection.

Move nbtree's detection of RowCompare quals that are unsatisfiable due
to having a NULL in their first row element: rather than detecting these
cases at the point where _bt_first builds its insertion scan key, do so
earlier, during preprocessing proper.  This brings the RowCompare case
in line every other case involving an unsatisfiable-due-to-NULL qual.

nbtree now consistently detects such unsatisfiable quals -- even when
they happen to involve a key that isn't examined by _bt_first at all.
Affected cases thereby avoid useless full index scans that cannot
possibly return any matching rows.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmySVXst2hFrOATC-zw1Byg1XC-jYUS314=mzuqsNwk+Q@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ec986020decff322723cf7b3a2696803d082ad17

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsearch.c      |  26 +++---
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtutils.c       |  14 +++-
src/test/regress/expected/btree_index.out  | 127 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/expected/create_index.out |  13 +++
src/test/regress/sql/btree_index.sql       |  79 ++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/create_index.sql      |   5 ++
6 files changed, 248 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)



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