Hi, When using views built with left joins, and then querying against these views, there are a lot of join in the plan that are not necessary, because I don't select/use any column of each table in the views every time. Tables that are left joined and never referenced anywhere else in the query should be removed from the plan. I think this can be done without any other analyzation or catalog lookup, so it is a quite cheap optimization step, and doing it won't influence the result, but the query will run faster. This way with a complex query against these views usually the half of the join can be eliminated, and the plan will be quite more optimal. Why left join a table if never used/referenced in the query?
How easy is to teach Postgres to this? I would like to help somehow to introduce this feature as soon as possible. What should I do? Thanks, Otto
