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    Remove unneeded constraint dependency tracking · 5b736e9c
    David Rowley authored
    It was previously thought that remove_useless_groupby_columns() needed to
    keep track of which constraints the generated plan depended upon, however,
    this is unnecessary. The confusion likely arose regarding this because of
    check_functional_grouping(), which does need to track the dependency to
    ensure VIEWs with columns which are functionally dependant on the GROUP BY
    remain so. For remove_useless_groupby_columns(), cached plans will just
    become invalidated when the primary key's underlying index is removed
    through the normal relcache invalidation code.
    
    Here we just remove the unneeded code which records the dependency and
    updates the comments. The previous comments claimed that we could not use
    UNIQUE constraints for the same optimization due to lack of a
    pg_constraint record for NOT NULL constraints (which are required because
    NULLs can be duplicated in a unique index). Since we don't actually need a
    pg_constraint record to handle the invalidation, it looks like we could
    add code to do this in the future. But not today.
    
    We're not really fixing any bug in the code here, this fix is just to set
    the record straight on UNIQUE constraints. This code was added back in
    9.6, but due to lack of any bug, we'll not be backpatching this.
    
    Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrdYa=VhOoMe4ZZjZ-G4ALnD-xuAeUNCRTL+PYMVN8OnQ@mail.gmail.com
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