pgsql: Add support for doing FULL JOIN ON FALSE. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Log Message:
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Add support for doing FULL JOIN ON FALSE.  While this is really a rather
peculiar variant of UNION ALL, and so wouldn't likely get written directly
as-is, it's possible for it to arise as a result of simplification of
less-obviously-silly queries.  In particular, now that we can do flattening
of subqueries that have constant outputs and are underneath an outer join,
it's possible for the case to result from simplification of queries of the
type exhibited in bug #5263.  Back-patch to 8.4 to avoid a functionality
regression for this type of query.

Tags:
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REL8_4_STABLE

Modified Files:
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    pgsql/src/backend/executor:
        nodeMergejoin.c (r1.97 -> r1.97.2.1)
        (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/executor/nodeMergejoin.c?r1=1.97&r2=1.97.2.1)
    pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path:
        joinpath.c (r1.122 -> r1.122.2.1)
        (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/joinpath.c?r1=1.122&r2=1.122.2.1)
    pgsql/src/include/nodes:
        execnodes.h (r1.205.2.1 -> r1.205.2.2)
        (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/nodes/execnodes.h?r1=1.205.2.1&r2=1.205.2.2)
    pgsql/src/test/regress/expected:
        join.out (r1.36.2.2 -> r1.36.2.3)
        (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/test/regress/expected/join.out?r1=1.36.2.2&r2=1.36.2.3)
    pgsql/src/test/regress/sql:
        join.sql (r1.27.2.2 -> r1.27.2.3)
        (http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/test/regress/sql/join.sql?r1=1.27.2.2&r2=1.27.2.3)