Re: [PATCHES] Re: [HACKERS] Query->hasSubLinks is always FALSE...

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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > You know, after all our lengthy discussions, this SubLink thing looks
> > pretty clean to me.
> >
> > How are subselects going?  Are you having to write a lot of code to get
> > it working?  I would say after all our discussions and thinking, it took
>
> Mmm ... =~ 1000 lines of code :)
>
> > me about two or three days to do the parser and rewrite for sublinks.
> > How many coding days is the rest taking?  I am curious.
>
> All was near ready Feb 6, but ... I got problems from canonification
> routines in optimizer: 'where A AND B OR C ' becomes 'where (A OR C) AND (B OR C)'
> and if C is subselect then ... C has to be processed twice (sometime) ...
> I remember your question about handling 'A AND (B OR SubSelect)' - unfortunately,
> I didn't see problems here (actually, there is no problem with this
> conjunctive normal form :), but there are troubles in common case.
>
> Ideas ?
>
> For the moment I could leave this un-optimized, with possibility
> of double subselect processing...

I would leave it for later.  We already have an optimizer explosion
problem when we have lots of OR's so at some point we may have to
revisit the cnf-ify process anyway.  Commerical Ingres has or had the
same problem.


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Bruce Momjian
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