From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:19:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove prohibition against SubLinks in the WHERE clause of an EXISTS subquery
X-Git-Tag: REL8_4_BETA1~1075
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Remove prohibition against SubLinks in the WHERE clause of an EXISTS subquery
that we're considering pulling up.  I hadn't wanted to think through whether
that could work during the first pass at this stuff.  However, on closer
inspection it seems to be safe enough.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c
index d4374516ac8..9eaeaedc68f 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c,v 1.134 2008/08/17 01:20:00 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/subselect.c,v 1.135 2008/08/17 02:19:19 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -969,14 +969,6 @@ convert_EXISTS_sublink_to_join(PlannerInfo *root, SubLink *sublink,
 	if (contain_volatile_functions(whereClause))
 		return false;
 
-	/*
-	 * Also disallow SubLinks within the WHERE clause.  (XXX this could
-	 * probably be supported, but it would complicate the transformation
-	 * below, and it doesn't seem worth worrying about in a first pass.)
-	 */
-	if (contain_subplans(whereClause))
-		return false;
-
 	/*
 	 * Prepare to pull up the sub-select into top range table.
 	 *