Add IGNORE NULLS/RESPECT NULLS option to Window functions.

Add IGNORE NULLS/RESPECT NULLS option (null treatment clause) to lead,
lag, first_value, last_value and nth_value window functions.  If
unspecified, the default is RESPECT NULLS which includes NULL values
in any result calculation. IGNORE NULLS ignores NULL values.

Built-in window functions are modified to call new API
WinCheckAndInitializeNullTreatment() to indicate whether they accept
IGNORE NULLS/RESPECT NULLS option or not (the API can be called by
user defined window functions as well).  If WinGetFuncArgInPartition's
allowNullTreatment argument is true and IGNORE NULLS option is given,
WinGetFuncArgInPartition() or WinGetFuncArgInFrame() will return
evaluated function's argument expression on specified non NULL row (if
it exists) in the partition or the frame.

When IGNORE NULLS option is given, window functions need to visit and
evaluate same rows over and over again to look for non null rows. To
mitigate the issue, 2-bit not null information array is created while
executing window functions to remember whether the row has been
already evaluated to NULL or NOT NULL. If already evaluated, we could
skip the evaluation work, thus we could get better performance.

Author: Oliver Ford <ojford@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Krasiyan Andreev <krasiyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Reviewed-by: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <lic@highgo.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAGMVOdsbtRwE_4+v8zjH1d9xfovDeQAGLkP_B6k69_VoFEgX-A@mail.gmail.com

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h b/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h
index 6dfca3cb35b..e9d8bf74145 100644
--- a/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h
+++ b/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h
@@ -579,6 +579,17 @@ typedef struct GroupingFunc
  * Collation information is irrelevant for the query jumbling, as is the
  * internal state information of the node like "winstar" and "winagg".
  */
+
+/*
+ * Null Treatment options. If specified, initially set to PARSER_IGNORE_NULLS
+ * which is then converted to IGNORE_NULLS if the window function allows the
+ * null treatment clause.
+ */
+#define NO_NULLTREATMENT 0
+#define PARSER_IGNORE_NULLS 1
+#define PARSER_RESPECT_NULLS 2
+#define IGNORE_NULLS 3
+
 typedef struct WindowFunc
 {
 	Expr		xpr;
@@ -602,6 +613,8 @@ typedef struct WindowFunc
 	bool		winstar pg_node_attr(query_jumble_ignore);
 	/* is function a simple aggregate? */
 	bool		winagg pg_node_attr(query_jumble_ignore);
+	/* ignore nulls. One of the Null Treatment options */
+	int			ignore_nulls;
 	/* token location, or -1 if unknown */
 	ParseLoc	location;
 } WindowFunc;