Nice article and nice work on the floating-point exception bug.

Now, to give this dead horse the final whiplash, I was intrigued by the IN handling and modified the set (30,20,10,1) into (30,20,30,10,1). Sure enough, the IN expression was optimized down to 4 ordered OR subexpressions in the query plan like before. Distinct sort seems to be the easiest way to expand only distinct values in the set into OR expressions. It just happens to also sort the values as a benign side-effect.