Re: Get more from indices.

Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
> Hello, I've totally refactored the series of patches and cut out the
appropriate portion as 'unique (and non-nullable) index stuff'.

> As the discussion before, it got rid of path distinctness. This patch
works only on index 'full-orederedness', i.e., unique index on non-nullable
columns.

This is interesting!

I took a quick look at the patch.  Here is my initial comment.  I don't
think it's so good to set the pathkeys of a unique-index path to
query_pathkeys after the scan/join optimization because it can't exploit the
full-orderedness property in implementing mergejoins, i.e., it can't skip
doing an explicit sort that is considered unnecessary from the property.
So, I think the path's pathkeys should be set to query_pathkeys before the
scan/join optimization, i.e., at the index-path creation time.

If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to rework on the patch.

Thanks,

Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita