Commit 85b7efa1c introduced support for LIKE with non-deterministic
collations. By moving some conditionals around, it accidentally broke
the optimization for converting a LIKE or regex exact-match pattern
to an equality indexqual when the index collation doesn't match the
expression collation. That should be allowed if the expression
collation is deterministic. This patch re-introduces the optimization
for that common case.
One important beneficiary of this optimization is the "\d tablename"
command in psql. Without this fix that will do a seqscan on pg_class
instead of an index point lookup.
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DHBQIZX8SZVI.ZX614ZMFL645@jeltef.nl
Backpatch-through: 18
2d7808e6fc