Re: Calculation of unused columns

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Even if country.id is a primary or unique key?
>
>> Well, we currently don't have any logic for making inferences based on
>> unique constraints.
>
> Huh?
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2009-09/msg00159.php
>
> Admittedly it's just one case and there's lots more to be done, but it's
> more than nothing.  So this is a *potential* argument for trying to trim
> subquery outputs.  What I'm not sure about is whether there are common
> cases where this would be applicable below a non-flattenable subquery.
>

Wow. That's IHMO a major improvement in the optimizer. Is this also valid
for views?

In the area of views this might even be a killer feature since one can
define a view with many columns and when only e.g. one is used query is
still optimal. I had today such a situation where I created a new view to
be ~24 times faster (with a lot of left outer joins).

Is the patch only for 8.5 or even backported to 8.4 and 8.3?

Thnx.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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