With this commit, we relax the restrictions put on the reference
tables with subquery pushdown.
We did three notable improvements:
1) Relax equi-join restrictions
Previously, we always expected that the non-reference tables are
equi joined with reference tables on the partition key of the
non-reference table.
With this commit, we allow any column of non-reference tables
joined using non-equi joins as well.
2) Relax OUTER JOIN restrictions
Previously Citus errored out if any reference table exists at
any point of the outer part of an outer join. For instance,
See the below sketch where (h) denotes a hash distributed relation,
(r) denotes a reference table, (L) denotes LEFT JOIN and
(I) denotes INNER JOIN.
(L)
/ \
(I) h
/ \
r h
Before this commit Citus would error out since a reference table
appears on the left most part of an left join. However, that was
too restrictive so that we only error out if the reference table
is directly below and in the outer part of an outer join.
3) Bug fixes
We've done some minor bugfixes in the existing implementation.
Onder Kalaci
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