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2016-06-09pgindent run for 9.6Robert Haas
2016-03-14Allow callers of create_foreignscan_path to specify nondefault PathTarget.Tom Lane
Although the default choice of rel->reltarget should typically be sufficient for scan or join paths, it's not at all sufficient for the purposes PathTargets were invented for; in particular not for upper-relation Paths. So break API compatibility by adding a PathTarget argument to create_foreignscan_path(). To ease updating of existing code, accept a NULL value of the argument as selecting rel->reltarget.
2016-03-14Rethink representation of PathTargets.Tom Lane
In commit 19a541143a09c067 I did not make PathTarget a subtype of Node, and embedded a RelOptInfo's reltarget directly into it rather than having a separately-allocated Node. In hindsight that was misguided micro-optimization, enabled by the fact that at that point we didn't have any Paths with custom PathTargets. Now that PathTarget processing has been fleshed out some more, it's easier to see that it's better to have PathTarget as an indepedent Node type, even if it does cost us one more palloc to create a RelOptInfo. So change it while we still can. This commit just changes the representation, without doing anything more interesting than that.
2016-02-26Add new FDW API to test for parallel-safety.Robert Haas
This is basically a bug fix; the old code assumes that a ForeignScan is always parallel-safe, but for postgres_fdw, for example, this is definitely false. It should be true for file_fdw, though, since a worker can read a file from the filesystem just as well as any other backend process. Original patch by Thomas Munro. Documentation, and changes to the comments, by me.
2016-02-18Add an explicit representation of the output targetlist to Paths.Tom Lane
Up to now, there's been an assumption that all Paths for a given relation compute the same output column set (targetlist). However, there are good reasons to remove that assumption. For example, an indexscan on an expression index might be able to return the value of an expensive function "for free". While we have the ability to generate such a plan today in simple cases, we don't have a way to model that it's cheaper than a plan that computes the function from scratch, nor a way to create such a plan in join cases (where the function computation would normally happen at the topmost join node). Also, we need this so that we can have Paths representing post-scan/join steps, where the targetlist may well change from one step to the next. Therefore, invent a "struct PathTarget" representing the columns we expect a plan step to emit. It's convenient to include the output tuple width and tlist evaluation cost in this struct, and there will likely be additional fields in future. While Path nodes that actually do have custom outputs will need their own PathTargets, it will still be true that most Paths for a given relation will compute the same tlist. To reduce the overhead added by this patch, keep a "default PathTarget" in RelOptInfo, and allow Paths that compute that column set to just point to their parent RelOptInfo's reltarget. (In the patch as committed, actually every Path is like that, since we do not yet have any cases of custom PathTargets.) I took this opportunity to provide some more-honest costing of PlaceHolderVar evaluation. Up to now, the assumption that "scan/join reltargetlists have cost zero" was applied not only to Vars, where it's reasonable, but also PlaceHolderVars where it isn't. Now, we add the eval cost of a PlaceHolderVar's expression to the first plan level where it can be computed, by including it in the PathTarget cost field and adding that to the cost estimates for Paths. This isn't perfect yet but it's much better than before, and there is a way forward to improve it more. This costing change affects the join order chosen for a couple of the regression tests, changing expected row ordering.
2016-01-02Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2015-12-08Allow foreign and custom joins to handle EvalPlanQual rechecks.Robert Haas
Commit e7cb7ee14555cc9c5773e2c102efd6371f6f2005 provided basic infrastructure for allowing a foreign data wrapper or custom scan provider to replace a join of one or more tables with a scan. However, this infrastructure failed to take into account the need for possible EvalPlanQual rechecks, and ExecScanFetch would fail an assertion (or just overwrite memory) if such a check was attempted for a plan containing a pushed-down join. To fix, adjust the EPQ machinery to skip some processing steps when scanrelid == 0, making those the responsibility of scan's recheck method, which also has the responsibility in this case of correctly populating the relevant slot. To allow foreign scans to gain control in the right place to make use of this new facility, add a new, optional RecheckForeignScan method. Also, allow a foreign scan to have a child plan, which can be used to correctly populate the slot (or perhaps for something else, but this is the only use currently envisioned). KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Robert Haas, Etsuro Fujita, and Kyotaro Horiguchi.
2015-10-15Allow FDWs to push down quals without breaking EvalPlanQual rechecks.Robert Haas
This fixes a long-standing bug which was discovered while investigating the interaction between the new join pushdown code and the EvalPlanQual machinery: if a ForeignScan appears on the inner side of a paramaterized nestloop, an EPQ recheck would re-return the original tuple even if it no longer satisfied the pushed-down quals due to changed parameter values. This fix adds a new member to ForeignScan and ForeignScanState and a new argument to make_foreignscan, and requires changes to FDWs which push down quals to populate that new argument with a list of quals they have chosen to push down. Therefore, I'm only back-patching to 9.5, even though the bug is not new in 9.5. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by me and by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
2015-05-15TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensibleSimon Riggs
Add a TABLESAMPLE clause to SELECT statements that allows user to specify random BERNOULLI sampling or block level SYSTEM sampling. Implementation allows for extensible sampling functions to be written, using a standard API. Basic version follows SQLStandard exactly. Usable concrete use cases for the sampling API follow in later commits. Petr Jelinek Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
2015-05-15Separate block sampling functionsSimon Riggs
Refactoring ahead of tablesample patch Requested and reviewed by Michael Paquier Petr Jelinek
2015-05-10Code review for foreign/custom join pushdown patch.Tom Lane
Commit e7cb7ee14555cc9c5773e2c102efd6371f6f2005 included some design decisions that seem pretty questionable to me, and there was quite a lot of stuff not to like about the documentation and comments. Clean up as follows: * Consider foreign joins only between foreign tables on the same server, rather than between any two foreign tables with the same underlying FDW handler function. In most if not all cases, the FDW would simply have had to apply the same-server restriction itself (far more expensively, both for lack of caching and because it would be repeated for each combination of input sub-joins), or else risk nasty bugs. Anyone who's really intent on doing something outside this restriction can always use the set_join_pathlist_hook. * Rename fdw_ps_tlist/custom_ps_tlist to fdw_scan_tlist/custom_scan_tlist to better reflect what they're for, and allow these custom scan tlists to be used even for base relations. * Change make_foreignscan() API to include passing the fdw_scan_tlist value, since the FDW is required to set that. Backwards compatibility doesn't seem like an adequate reason to expect FDWs to set it in some ad-hoc extra step, and anyway existing FDWs can just pass NIL. * Change the API of path-generating subroutines of add_paths_to_joinrel, and in particular that of GetForeignJoinPaths and set_join_pathlist_hook, so that various less-used parameters are passed in a struct rather than as separate parameter-list entries. The objective here is to reduce the probability that future additions to those parameter lists will result in source-level API breaks for users of these hooks. It's possible that this is even a small win for the core code, since most CPU architectures can't pass more than half a dozen parameters efficiently anyway. I kept root, joinrel, outerrel, innerrel, and jointype as separate parameters to reduce code churn in joinpath.c --- in particular, putting jointype into the struct would have been problematic because of the subroutines' habit of changing their local copies of that variable. * Avoid ad-hocery in ExecAssignScanProjectionInfo. It was probably all right for it to know about IndexOnlyScan, but if the list is to grow we should refactor the knowledge out to the callers. * Restore nodeForeignscan.c's previous use of the relcache to avoid extra GetFdwRoutine lookups for base-relation scans. * Lots of cleanup of documentation and missed comments. Re-order some code additions into more logical places.
2015-02-21Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER for HeapTupleHeaderData.t_bits[].Tom Lane
This requires changing quite a few places that were depending on sizeof(HeapTupleHeaderData), but it seems for the best. Michael Paquier, some adjustments by me
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2014-05-06pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-04-22copy: update docs for FORCE_NULL and FORCE_NOT_NULL combinationBruce Momjian
Also update regression tests Patch by Michael Paquier
2014-04-18Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macroPeter Eisentraut
Because of gcc -Wmissing-prototypes, all functions in dynamically loadable modules must have a separate prototype declaration. This is meant to detect global functions that are not declared in header files, but in cases where the function is called via dfmgr, this is redundant. Besides filling up space with boilerplate, this is a frequent source of compiler warnings in extension modules. We can fix that by creating the function prototype as part of the PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro, which such modules have to use anyway. That makes the code of modules cleaner, because there is one less place where the entry points have to be listed, and creates an additional check that functions have the right prototype. Remove now redundant prototypes from contrib and other modules.
2014-03-04Provide a FORCE NULL option to COPY in CSV mode.Andrew Dunstan
This forces an input field containing the quoted null string to be returned as a NULL. Without this option, only unquoted null strings behave this way. This helps where some CSV producers insist on quoting every field, whether or not it is needed. The option takes a list of fields, and only applies to those columns. There is an equivalent column-level option added to file_fdw. Ian Barwick, with some tweaking by Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Payal Singh.
2014-01-07Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
2013-05-29pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
2013-02-27Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.Heikki Linnakangas
This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and corresponding psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version is superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the client. In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if you the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For example, "\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename called stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout. This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3), to a human-readable string. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
2013-01-01Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
2012-11-12Oops, have to rename local variables called 'errcontext' in contrib, too.Heikki Linnakangas
As pointed out by Alvaro.
2012-08-30Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.hAlvaro Herrera
This reduces unnecessary exposure of other headers through htup.h, which is very widely included by many files. I have chosen to move the function prototypes to the new file as well, because that means htup.h no longer needs to include tupdesc.h. In itself this doesn't have much effect in indirect inclusion of tupdesc.h throughout the tree, because it's also required by execnodes.h; but it's something to explore in the future, and it seemed best to do the htup.h change now while I'm busy with it.
2012-07-12Skip text->binary conversion of unnecessary columns in contrib/file_fdw.Tom Lane
When reading from a text- or CSV-format file in file_fdw, the datatype input routines can consume a significant fraction of the runtime. Often, the query does not need all the columns, so we can get a useful speed boost by skipping I/O conversion for unnecessary columns. To support this, add a "convert_selectively" option to the core COPY code. This is undocumented and not accessible from SQL (for now, anyway). Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
2012-06-10Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian
commit-fest.
2012-05-17file_fdw: Improve error messagePeter Eisentraut
The hint looked a bit confusing when there were no valid options to hint about.
2012-04-19Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues.Tom Lane
This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
2012-04-06Dept of second thoughts: improve the API for AnalyzeForeignTable.Tom Lane
If we make the initially-called function return the table physical-size estimate, acquire_inherited_sample_rows will be able to use that to allocate numbers of samples among child tables, when the day comes that we want to support foreign tables in inheritance trees.
2012-04-06Allow statistics to be collected for foreign tables.Tom Lane
ANALYZE now accepts foreign tables and allows the table's FDW to control how the sample rows are collected. (But only manual ANALYZEs will touch foreign tables, for the moment, since among other things it's not very clear how to handle remote permissions checks in an auto-analyze.) contrib/file_fdw is extended to support this. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada, some further tweaking by me.
2012-03-09Revise FDW planning API, again.Tom Lane
Further reflection shows that a single callback isn't very workable if we desire to let FDWs generate multiple Paths, because that forces the FDW to do all work necessary to generate a valid Plan node for each Path. Instead split the former PlanForeignScan API into three steps: GetForeignRelSize, GetForeignPaths, GetForeignPlan. We had already bit the bullet of breaking the 9.1 FDW API for 9.2, so this shouldn't cause very much additional pain, and it's substantially more flexible for complex FDWs. Add an fdw_private field to RelOptInfo so that the new functions can save state there rather than possibly having to recalculate information two or three times. In addition, we'd not thought through what would be needed to allow an FDW to set up subexpressions of its choice for runtime execution. We could treat ForeignScan.fdw_private as an executable expression but that seems likely to break existing FDWs unnecessarily (in particular, it would restrict the set of node types allowable in fdw_private to those supported by expression_tree_walker). Instead, invent a separate field fdw_exprs which will receive the postprocessing appropriate for expression trees. (One field is enough since it can be a list of expressions; also, we assume the corresponding expression state tree(s) will be held within fdw_state, so we don't need to add anything to ForeignScanState.) Per review of Hanada Shigeru's pgsql_fdw patch. We may need to tweak this further as we continue to work on that patch, but to me it feels a lot closer to being right now.
2012-03-07Add GetForeignColumnOptions() to foreign.c, and add some documentation.Tom Lane
GetForeignColumnOptions provides some abstraction for accessing column-specific FDW options, on a par with the access functions that were already provided here for other FDW-related information. Adjust file_fdw.c to use GetForeignColumnOptions instead of equivalent hand-rolled code. In addition, add some SGML documentation for the functions exported by foreign.c that are meant for use by FDW authors. (This is the fdw_helper portion of the proposed pgsql_fdw patch.) Hanada Shigeru, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
2012-03-05Redesign PlanForeignScan API to allow multiple paths for a foreign table.Tom Lane
The original API specification only allowed an FDW to create a single access path, which doesn't seem like a terribly good idea in hindsight. Instead, move the responsibility for building the Path node and calling add_path() into the FDW's PlanForeignScan function. Now, it can do that more than once if appropriate. There is no longer any need for the transient FdwPlan struct, so get rid of that. Etsuro Fujita, Shigeru Hanada, Tom Lane
2012-01-01Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian
2011-09-16Add FORCE_NOT_NULL support to the file_fdw foreign data wrapper.Tom Lane
This is implemented as a per-column boolean option, rather than trying to match COPY's convention of a single option listing the column names. Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
2011-07-05Make the file_fdw validator check that a filename option has been provided.Tom Lane
This was already a runtime failure condition, but it's better to check at validation time if possible. Lightly modified version of a patch by Shigeru Hanada.
2011-07-04Move Trigger and TriggerDesc structs out of rel.h into a new reltrigger.hAlvaro Herrera
This lets us stop including rel.h into execnodes.h, which is a widely used header.
2011-04-10pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1.Bruce Momjian
2011-02-21Add ENCODING option to COPY TO/FROM and file_fdw.Itagaki Takahiro
File encodings can be specified separately from client encoding. If not specified, client encoding is used for backward compatibility. Cases when the encoding doesn't match client encoding are slower than matched cases because we don't have conversion procs for other encodings. Performance improvement would be be a future work. Original patch by Hitoshi Harada, and modified by me.
2011-02-20Add contrib/file_fdw foreign-data wrapper for reading files via COPY.Tom Lane
This is both very useful in its own right, and an important test case for the core FDW support. This commit includes a small refactoring of copy.c to expose its option checking code as a separately callable function. The original patch submission duplicated hundreds of lines of that code, which seemed pretty unmaintainable. Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane