Avoid useless work during set_plain_rel_pathlist() when the relation

will be excluded by constraint exclusion anyway.  Greg Stark

src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c,v 1.161 2007/02/22 22:00:23 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c,v 1.162 2007/04/21 06:18:52 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -196,20 +196,6 @@ set_rel_pathlist(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel, Index rti)
 static void
 set_plain_rel_pathlist(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel, RangeTblEntry *rte)
 {
-	/* Mark rel with estimated output rows, width, etc */
-	set_baserel_size_estimates(root, rel);
-
-	/* Test any partial indexes of rel for applicability */
-	check_partial_indexes(root, rel);
-
-	/*
-	 * Check to see if we can extract any restriction conditions from join
-	 * quals that are OR-of-AND structures.  If so, add them to the rel's
-	 * restriction list, and recompute the size estimates.
-	 */
-	if (create_or_index_quals(root, rel))
-		set_baserel_size_estimates(root, rel);
-
 	/*
 	 * If we can prove we don't need to scan the rel via constraint exclusion,
 	 * set up a single dummy path for it.  (Rather than inventing a special
@@ -217,8 +203,9 @@ set_plain_rel_pathlist(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel, RangeTblEntry *rte)
 	 */
 	if (relation_excluded_by_constraints(rel, rte))
 	{
-		/* Reset output-rows estimate to 0 */
+		/* Set dummy size estimates --- we leave attr_widths[] as zeroes */
 		rel->rows = 0;
+		rel->width = 0;
 
 		add_path(rel, (Path *) create_append_path(rel, NIL));
 
@@ -228,6 +215,20 @@ set_plain_rel_pathlist(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel, RangeTblEntry *rte)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/* Mark rel with estimated output rows, width, etc */
+	set_baserel_size_estimates(root, rel);
+
+	/* Test any partial indexes of rel for applicability */
+	check_partial_indexes(root, rel);
+
+	/*
+	 * Check to see if we can extract any restriction conditions from join
+	 * quals that are OR-of-AND structures.  If so, add them to the rel's
+	 * restriction list, and recompute the size estimates.
+	 */
+	if (create_or_index_quals(root, rel))
+		set_baserel_size_estimates(root, rel);
+
 	/*
 	 * Generate paths and add them to the rel's pathlist.
 	 *
@@ -369,7 +370,8 @@ set_append_rel_pathlist(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
 		/*
 		 * Propagate size information from the child back to the parent. For
 		 * simplicity, we use the largest widths from any child as the parent
-		 * estimates.
+		 * estimates.  (If you want to change this, beware of child
+		 * attr_widths[] entries that haven't been set and are still 0.)
 		 */
 		rel->rows += childrel->rows;
 		if (childrel->width > rel->width)