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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-10-23 00:43:45 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-10-23 00:43:45 -0400
commit18661c67e96ff4a81ab3844843a73676d161db0c (patch)
tree6cc45485bd8ffda5563a07c9c2fa477d247b7711 /src/backend/optimizer/util
parent8e8ac0894b196c4dd8618bca1f598f13bf5e18ea (diff)
Don't trust deferred-unique indexes for join removal.
The uniqueness condition might fail to hold intra-transaction, and assuming it does can give incorrect query results. Per report from Marti Raudsepp, though this is not his proposed patch. Back-patch to 9.0, where both these features were introduced. In the released branches, add the new IndexOptInfo field to the end of the struct, to try to minimize ABI breakage for third-party code that may be examining that struct.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/optimizer/util')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c b/src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c
index 513b6e4d740..a92d2485289 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ get_relation_info(PlannerInfo *root, Oid relationObjectId, bool inhparent,
ChangeVarNodes((Node *) info->indpred, 1, varno, 0);
info->predOK = false; /* set later in indxpath.c */
info->unique = index->indisunique;
+ info->immediate = index->indimmediate;
info->hypothetical = false;
/*
@@ -973,6 +974,11 @@ join_selectivity(PlannerInfo *root,
* Detect whether there is a unique index on the specified attribute
* of the specified relation, thus allowing us to conclude that all
* the (non-null) values of the attribute are distinct.
+ *
+ * This function does not check the index's indimmediate property, which
+ * means that uniqueness may transiently fail to hold intra-transaction.
+ * That's appropriate when we are making statistical estimates, but beware
+ * of using this for any correctness proofs.
*/
bool
has_unique_index(RelOptInfo *rel, AttrNumber attno)