Get rid of the planner's LateralJoinInfo data structure.
authorTom Lane <[email protected]>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:52:16 +0000 (15:52 -0500)
committerTom Lane <[email protected]>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:52:39 +0000 (15:52 -0500)
commitdc4518814ecc2ae319c4d1679ee079e47dbd78e9
tree5158f9a835583bc58b7f715784608c5d4b48cdf3
parent12a54c888cf7bd9c37c4ce420e84cb52debe0184
Get rid of the planner's LateralJoinInfo data structure.

I originally modeled this data structure on SpecialJoinInfo, but after
commit acfcd45cacb6df23 that looks like a pretty poor decision.
All we really need is relid sets identifying laterally-referenced rels;
and most of the time, what we want to know about includes indirect lateral
references, a case the LateralJoinInfo data was unsuited to compute with
any efficiency.  The previous commit redefined RelOptInfo.lateral_relids
as the transitive closure of lateral references, so that it easily supports
checking indirect references.  For the places where we really do want just
direct references, add a new RelOptInfo field direct_lateral_relids, which
is easily set up as a copy of lateral_relids before we perform the
transitive closure calculation.  Then we can just drop lateral_info_list
and LateralJoinInfo and the supporting code.  This makes the planner's
handling of lateral references noticeably more efficient, and shorter too.

Such a change can't be back-patched into stable branches for fear of
breaking extensions that might be looking at the planner's data structures;
but it seems not too late to push it into 9.5, so I've done so.
17 files changed:
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c
src/backend/optimizer/path/joinrels.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/analyzejoins.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/initsplan.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planagg.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planmain.c
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepjointree.c
src/backend/optimizer/prep/prepunion.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/placeholder.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/relnode.c
src/backend/optimizer/util/var.c
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c
src/include/nodes/nodes.h
src/include/nodes/relation.h