Improve nbtree unsatisfiable RowCompare detection.
authorPeter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:38:30 +0000 (10:38 -0500)
committerPeter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:38:30 +0000 (10:38 -0500)
commitec986020decff322723cf7b3a2696803d082ad17
treeca6b269acc49464f1612b94f1361c7d246d58f77
parent428a99b58960a2772c3a29235eb694054f666a28
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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmySVXst2hFrOATC-zw1Byg1XC-jYUS314=mzuqsNwk+Q@mail.gmail.com
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtsearch.c
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtutils.c
src/test/regress/expected/btree_index.out
src/test/regress/expected/create_index.out
src/test/regress/sql/btree_index.sql
src/test/regress/sql/create_index.sql