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Neil Conway c119c5bd49 Change the implementation of hash join to attempt to avoid unnecessary
work if either of the join relations are empty. The logic is:

(1) if the inner relation's startup cost is less than the outer
    relation's startup cost and this is not an outer join, read
    a single tuple from the inner relation via ExecHash()
      - if NULL, we're done

(2) read a single tuple from the outer relation
      - if NULL, we're done

(3) build the hash table on the inner relation
      - if hash table is empty and this is not an outer join,
        we're done

(4) otherwise, do hash join as usual

The implementation uses the new MultiExecProcNode API, per a
suggestion from Tom: invoking ExecHash() now produces the first
tuple from the Hash node's child node, whereas MultiExecHash()
builds the hash table.

I had to put in a bit of a kludge to get the row count returned
for EXPLAIN ANALYZE to be correct: since ExecHash() is invoked to
return a tuple, and then MultiExecHash() is invoked, we would
return one too many tuples to EXPLAIN ANALYZE. I hacked around
this by just manually detecting this situation and subtracting 1
from the EXPLAIN ANALYZE row count.
2005-06-15 07:27:44 +00:00
config Clean up printf arg-control test, per Kurt Roeckx. 2005-02-24 01:34:45 +00:00
contrib Simplify shared-memory lock data structures as per recent discussion: 2005-06-14 22:15:33 +00:00
doc Minor SGML markup cleanup. 2005-06-15 06:29:25 +00:00
src Change the implementation of hash join to attempt to avoid unnecessary 2005-06-15 07:27:44 +00:00
aclocal.m4 Add new auto-detection of thread flags. 2004-04-23 18:15:55 +00:00
configure Allow kerberos name and username case sensitivity to be specified from 2005-06-04 20:42:43 +00:00
configure.in Allow kerberos name and username case sensitivity to be specified from 2005-06-04 20:42:43 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Tag appropriate files for rc3 2004-12-31 22:04:05 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Remove the contents of the src/corba subdirectory: this has been dead code 2005-05-01 06:15:51 +00:00
Makefile please find attached an alternate submission which addresses open item 2004-10-06 08:50:02 +00:00
README Remove more traces of libpgtcl from the source tree. Also, make some 2004-10-01 02:00:44 +00:00
README.CVS Some further editorializing on README.CVS. 2004-03-28 06:09:08 +00:00

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
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database management system.

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