On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 16:21, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I'm wondering if it could be shortened a great deal by > handling left-input-dummy and EXCEPT-ALL-with-right-input-dummy > but leaving the EXCEPT-with-right-input-dummy case unimproved.
Good idea. Less code and still get to keep the one that did well in the benchmark. See attached.
I ended up splitting the patch in two. 0001 for UNION only, then 0002 for the INTERSECT and EXCEPT.
David
It seems that the optimization for `UNION ALL` is already implemented in the patch: it removes empty sub-paths and preserves the remaining ones.
Should we add a test case to formally validate this behavior like Union cases?