Re: [HACKERS] teaching Var about NOT NULL

2014-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
David Rowley writes: > I quickly put together the attached patch which adds a "knownnotnull" bool > field to Var which we can set to true when we're completely sure that the > Var cannot contain any NULL values. This is utterly the wrong way to go about it. How will you update views containing s

[HACKERS] teaching Var about NOT NULL

2014-06-01 Thread David Rowley
Hi, While hacking away at implementing join removal support for ANTI-JOINs I realised that I couldn't just replace the join with a WHERE false condition... Let me explain... With a query such as: SELECT * FROM a WHERE NOT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM b WHERE a.b_id = b.id); Where a.b_id has a foreign k