[release/8.0] Allow empty inline collections (#32414) #32454
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Fixes #32375, backports #32414.
Description
As part of the primitive collection work for EF 8, we now translate inline query roots to SQL VALUES, which doesn't support empty sets (there must be at least one element); so we had an early check to detect this and throw an informative exception.
However, in the Contains case, we pattern-match the ValuesExpression and optimize it away to an InExpression, so no actual VALUES gets sent to the database. This PR removes the check - allowing ValuesExpression to get get converted to InExpression - and moves the check for empty ValuesExpression to the SQL generation phase.
Customer impact
Queries involving an empty array and Contains no longer translate. This particularly affects dynamic query scenarios where arrays are integrated into the query as constants (inline), and may happen to be empty.
How found
Customers reported on 8.0
Regression
Yes
Testing
Added.
Risk
Very low; quirk added.