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.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c b/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c
index 1da90ff8943..6f221687f67 100644
--- a/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c
+++ b/src/backend/rewrite/rewriteManip.c
@@ -402,7 +402,6 @@ OffsetVarNodes_walker(Node *node, OffsetVarNodes_context *context)
 	/* Shouldn't need to handle other planner auxiliary nodes here */
 	Assert(!IsA(node, PlanRowMark));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, SpecialJoinInfo));
-	Assert(!IsA(node, LateralJoinInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, PlaceHolderInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, MinMaxAggInfo));
 
@@ -586,7 +585,6 @@ ChangeVarNodes_walker(Node *node, ChangeVarNodes_context *context)
 	}
 	/* Shouldn't need to handle other planner auxiliary nodes here */
 	Assert(!IsA(node, SpecialJoinInfo));
-	Assert(!IsA(node, LateralJoinInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, PlaceHolderInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, MinMaxAggInfo));
 
@@ -868,7 +866,6 @@ rangeTableEntry_used_walker(Node *node,
 	Assert(!IsA(node, PlaceHolderVar));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, PlanRowMark));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, SpecialJoinInfo));
-	Assert(!IsA(node, LateralJoinInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, AppendRelInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, PlaceHolderInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, MinMaxAggInfo));