Get rid of the planner's LateralJoinInfo data structure.

I originally modeled this data structure on SpecialJoinInfo, but after
commit acfcd45cacb6df23 that looks like a pretty poor decision.
All we really need is relid sets identifying laterally-referenced rels;
and most of the time, what we want to know about includes indirect lateral
references, a case the LateralJoinInfo data was unsuited to compute with
any efficiency.  The previous commit redefined RelOptInfo.lateral_relids
as the transitive closure of lateral references, so that it easily supports
checking indirect references.  For the places where we really do want just
direct references, add a new RelOptInfo field direct_lateral_relids, which
is easily set up as a copy of lateral_relids before we perform the
transitive closure calculation.  Then we can just drop lateral_info_list
and LateralJoinInfo and the supporting code.  This makes the planner's
handling of lateral references noticeably more efficient, and shorter too.

Such a change can't be back-patched into stable branches for fear of
breaking extensions that might be looking at the planner's data structures;
but it seems not too late to push it into 9.5, so I've done so.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/util/var.c b/src/backend/optimizer/util/var.c
index 773e7b2be1c..32038ce3759 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/util/var.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/util/var.c
@@ -782,7 +782,6 @@ flatten_join_alias_vars_mutator(Node *node,
 	Assert(!IsA(node, SubPlan));
 	/* Shouldn't need to handle these planner auxiliary nodes here */
 	Assert(!IsA(node, SpecialJoinInfo));
-	Assert(!IsA(node, LateralJoinInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, PlaceHolderInfo));
 	Assert(!IsA(node, MinMaxAggInfo));