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Tom Lane authored
In particular, make it possible to prove/refute "x IS NULL" and "x IS NOT NULL" predicates from a clause involving a ScalarArrayOpExpr even when we are unable or unwilling to deconstruct the expression into an AND/OR tree. This avoids a former unexpected degradation of plan quality when the size of an ARRAY[] expression or array constant exceeded the arbitrary MAX_SAOP_ARRAY_SIZE limit. For IS-NULL proofs, we don't really care about the values of the individual array elements; at most, we care whether there are any, and for some common cases we needn't even know that. The main user-visible effect of this is to let the optimizer recognize applicability of partial indexes with "x IS NOT NULL" predicates to queries with "x IN (array)" clauses in some cases where it previously failed to recognize that. The structure of predtest.c is such that a bunch of related proofs will now also succeed, but they're probably much less useful in the wild. James Coleman, reviewed by David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8yKSvzbyu8w-dThRs9aTFMwrFxn_BkTYeXgjqe3CbNjg@mail.gmail.com
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