Change the planner-to-executor API so that the planner tells the executor

which comparison operators to use for plan nodes involving tuple comparison
(Agg, Group, Unique, SetOp).  Formerly the executor looked up the default
equality operator for the datatype, which was really pretty shaky, since it's
possible that the data being fed to the node is sorted according to some
nondefault operator class that could have an incompatible idea of equality.
The planner knows what it has sorted by and therefore can provide the right
equality operator to use.  Also, this change moves a couple of catalog lookups
out of the executor and into the planner, which should help startup time for
pre-planned queries by some small amount.  Modify the planner to remove some
other cavalier assumptions about always being able to use the default
operators.  Also add "nulls first/last" info to the Plan node for a mergejoin
--- neither the executor nor the planner can cope yet, but at least the API is
in place.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c b/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
index 3250beafb6..4858f985cf 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c,v 1.228 2007/01/09 02:14:13 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c,v 1.229 2007/01/10 18:06:04 tgl Exp $
  *
  * HISTORY
  *	  AUTHOR			DATE			MAJOR EVENT
@@ -3995,6 +3995,7 @@ expression_tree_mutator(Node *node,
 
 				FLATCOPY(newnode, ininfo, InClauseInfo);
 				MUTATE(newnode->sub_targetlist, ininfo->sub_targetlist, List *);
+				/* Assume we need not make a copy of in_operators list */
 				return (Node *) newnode;
 			}
 			break;