Previously, the code charged disable_cost for CurrentOfExpr, and then subtracted disable_cost from the cost of a TID path that used CurrentOfExpr as the TID qual, effectively disabling all paths except that one. Now, we instead suppress generation of the disabled paths entirely, and generate only the one that the executor will actually understand. With this approach, we do not need to rely on disable_cost being large enough to prevent the wrong path from being chosen, and we save some CPU cycle by avoiding generating paths that we can't actually use. In my opinion, the code is also easier to understand like this. Patch by me. Review by Heikki Linnakangas. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/591b3596-2ea0-4b8e-99c6-fad0ef2801f5@iki.fi
PostgreSQL Database Management System
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