Reference to parent query from ANY sublink

From: Antonin Houska <antonin(dot)houska(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Reference to parent query from ANY sublink
Date: 2013-10-31 15:46:25
Message-ID: 52727B51.1090609@gmail.com
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So far, a suquery of ANY sublink located in WHERE/ON clause can't
reference vars exactly one level up, as long as pull-up into the join
tree is expected. Now that we have LATERAL subqueries (there seem to be
no specifics of SEMI JOIN when it comes to parameterization etc), I
think this restriction can be lifted. Thus a subplan should be avoided
often.

Not sure if something like that is applicable to EXISTS: various parts
are cut-off, so there are probably no vars having (varlevelsup == 1).

The attachments show cases where the SEMI JOIN should be inserted above
INNER JOIN and into the nullable side of OUTER JOIN respectively, each
before the patch is applied and after that.

So far I didn't test recursive processing, but don't expect problems here.

Can the change be as simple as this or do I neglect anything?

// Antonin Houska (Tony)

Attachment Content-Type Size
lateral_semijoin.patch text/x-patch 1.3 KB
any_01.sql text/x-sql 80 bytes
any_01_before text/plain 325 bytes
any_01_after text/plain 500 bytes
any_02.sql text/x-sql 127 bytes
any_02_before text/plain 577 bytes
any_02_after text/plain 802 bytes
tables.ddl text/plain 65 bytes

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