Parsing the expression in the first place is already linear time.
True, but that doesn't mean doing additional work during the parse is free. Optimizing out static expressions will take additional time, and in general that additional time will be linear in the query size.
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True, but that doesn't mean doing additional work during the parse is free. Optimizing out static expressions will take additional time, and in general that additional time will be linear in the query size.