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, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/windowapi.h b/src/include/windowapi.h
index cb2ece166b6..20cfd9e9dd9 100644
--- a/src/include/windowapi.h
+++ b/src/include/windowapi.h
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #ifndef WINDOWAPI_H
 #define WINDOWAPI_H
 
+#include "fmgr.h"
+
 /* values of "seektype" */
 #define WINDOW_SEEK_CURRENT 0
 #define WINDOW_SEEK_HEAD 1
@@ -41,6 +43,10 @@ typedef struct WindowObjectData *WindowObject;
 #define WindowObjectIsValid(winobj) \
 	((winobj) != NULL && IsA(winobj, WindowObjectData))
 
+extern void WinCheckAndInitializeNullTreatment(WindowObject winobj,
+											   bool allowNullTreatment,
+											   FunctionCallInfo fcinfo);
+
 extern void *WinGetPartitionLocalMemory(WindowObject winobj, Size sz);
 
 extern int64 WinGetCurrentPosition(WindowObject winobj);