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2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2009-09-27Remove no-longer-needed ExecCountSlots infrastructure.Tom Lane
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-04-02Revert DTrace patch from Robert LorBruce Momjian
2009-04-02Add support for additional DTrace probes.Bruce Momjian
Robert Lor
2009-03-21Optimize multi-batch hash joins when the outer relation has a nonuniformTom Lane
distribution, by creating a special fast path for the (first few) most common values of the outer relation. Tuples having hashvalues matching the MCVs are effectively forced to be in the first batch, so that we never write them out to the batch temp files. Bryce Cutt and Ramon Lawrence, with some editorialization by me.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-10-23Remove useless ps_OuterTupleSlot field from PlanState. I suppose this wasTom Lane
used long ago, but in the current code the ecxt_outertuple field of ExprContext is doing all the work. Spotted by Ran Tang.
2008-08-15Performance fix for new anti-join code in nodeMergejoin.c: after finding aTom Lane
match in antijoin mode, we should advance to next outer tuple not next inner. We know we don't want to return this outer tuple, and there is no point in advancing over matching inner tuples now, because we'd just have to do it again if the next outer tuple has the same merge key. This makes a noticeable difference if there are lots of duplicate keys in both inputs. Similarly, after finding a match in semijoin mode, arrange to advance to the next outer tuple after returning the current match; or immediately, if it fails the extra quals. The rationale is the same. (This is a performance bug in existing releases; perhaps worth back-patching? The planner tries to avoid using mergejoin with lots of duplicates, so it may not be a big issue in practice.) Nestloop and hash got this right to start with, but I made some cosmetic adjustments there to make the corresponding bits of logic look more similar.
2008-08-14Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replaceTom Lane
the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.) Teach the planner to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti joins respectively. Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL filters are recognized as being anti joins. Unify the InClauseInfo and OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo". With that change, it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt, which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation. That needs to be taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a separate patch. So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and especially anti joins are quite bogus.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-11-15pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian
2007-06-07Rework temp_tablespaces patch so that temp tablespaces are assigned separatelyTom Lane
for each temp file, rather than once per sort or hashjoin; this allows spreading the data of a large sort or join across multiple tablespaces. (I remain dubious that this will make any difference in practice, but certain people insisted.) Arrange to cache the results of parsing the GUC variable instead of recomputing from scratch on every demand, and push usage of the cache down to the bottommost fd.c level.
2007-06-03Create a GUC parameter temp_tablespaces that allows selection of theTom Lane
tablespace(s) in which to store temp tables and temporary files. This is a list to allow spreading the load across multiple tablespaces (a random list element is chosen each time a temp object is to be created). Temp files are not stored in per-database pgsql_tmp/ directories anymore, but per-tablespace directories. Jaime Casanova and Albert Cervera, with review by Bernd Helmle and Tom Lane.
2007-02-02Repair failure to check that a table is still compatible with a previouslyTom Lane
made query plan. Use of ALTER COLUMN TYPE creates a hazard for cached query plans: they could contain Vars that claim a column has a different type than it now has. Fix this by checking during plan startup that Vars at relation scan level match the current relation tuple descriptor. Since at that point we already have at least AccessShareLock, we can be sure the column type will not change underneath us later in the query. However, since a backend's locks do not conflict against itself, there is still a hole for an attacker to exploit: he could try to execute ALTER COLUMN TYPE while a query is in progress in the current backend. Seal that hole by rejecting ALTER TABLE whenever the target relation is already open in the current backend. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0556
2007-01-30Add support for cross-type hashing in hash index searches and hash joins.Tom Lane
Hashing for aggregation purposes still needs work, so it's not time to mark any cross-type operators as hashable for general use, but these cases work if the operators are so marked by hand in the system catalogs.
2007-01-28Improve hash join to discard input tuples immediately if they can'tTom Lane
match because they contain a null join key (and the join operator is known strict). Improves performance significantly when the inner relation contains a lot of nulls, as per bug #2930.
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian
2006-07-14Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian
2006-06-27Convert hash join code to use MinimalTuple format in tuple hash tableTom Lane
and batch files. Should reduce memory and I/O demands for such joins.
2006-06-16Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in useTom Lane
by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time ago for catcache entries. The back branches have an ugly solution involving lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient. Reference counting is only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context. Neil Conway and Tom Lane
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2006-02-28Extend the ExecInitNode API so that plan nodes receive a set of flagTom Lane
bits indicating which optional capabilities can actually be exercised at runtime. This will allow Sort and Material nodes, and perhaps later other nodes, to avoid unnecessary overhead in common cases. This commit just adds the infrastructure and arranges to pass the correct flag values down to plan nodes; none of the actual optimizations are here yet. I'm committing this separately in case anyone wants to measure the added overhead. (It should be negligible.) Simon Riggs and Tom Lane
2005-11-28Tweak hash join code to use an additional heuristic for deciding whetherTom Lane
it's worth probing the outer relation for emptiness before building the hash table. To wit, if we're rescanning a join previously performed, remember whether we found it nonempty the previous time, and don't bother with the probe if it was nonempty. This buys back the performance lost in examples like Mario Weilguni's.
2005-11-28Recent changes to allow hash join to exit early given empty input fromTom Lane
one child or the other had a problem: they did not leave the node in a state that ExecReScanHashJoin would understand. In particular it would tend to fail to reset the child plans when needed. Per report from Mario Weilguni.
2005-11-22Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-11-20Remove the t_datamcxt field of HeapTupleData. This was introduced forTom Lane
the convenience of tuptoaster.c and is no longer needed, so may as well get rid of some small amount of overhead.
2005-10-18A few trivial code cleanups motivated by reading warnings generatedTom Lane
by a recent HP C compiler. Mostly, get rid of useless local variables that are assigned to but never used.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-09-25The original patch to avoid building a hash join's hashtable when theTom Lane
outer relation is empty did not work, per test case from Patrick Welche. It tried to use nodeHashjoin.c's high-level mechanisms for fetching an outer-relation tuple, but that code expected the hash table to be filled already. As patched, the code failed in corner cases such as having no outer-relation tuples for the first hash batch. Revert and rewrite.
2005-06-15Change the implementation of hash join to attempt to avoid unnecessaryNeil Conway
work if either of the join relations are empty. The logic is: (1) if the inner relation's startup cost is less than the outer relation's startup cost and this is not an outer join, read a single tuple from the inner relation via ExecHash() - if NULL, we're done (2) read a single tuple from the outer relation - if NULL, we're done (3) build the hash table on the inner relation - if hash table is empty and this is not an outer join, we're done (4) otherwise, do hash join as usual The implementation uses the new MultiExecProcNode API, per a suggestion from Tom: invoking ExecHash() now produces the first tuple from the Hash node's child node, whereas MultiExecHash() builds the hash table. I had to put in a bit of a kludge to get the row count returned for EXPLAIN ANALYZE to be correct: since ExecHash() is invoked to return a tuple, and then MultiExecHash() is invoked, we would return one too many tuples to EXPLAIN ANALYZE. I hacked around this by just manually detecting this situation and subtracting 1 from the EXPLAIN ANALYZE row count.
2005-04-16Create a new 'MultiExecProcNode' call API for plan nodes that don'tTom Lane
return just a single tuple at a time. Currently the only such node type is Hash, but I expect we will soon have indexscans that can return tuple bitmaps. A side benefit is that EXPLAIN ANALYZE now shows the correct tuple count for a Hash node.
2005-03-31Minor code cleanup: ExecHash() was returning a null TupleTableSlot, and anNeil Conway
old comment in the code claimed that this was necessary. Since it is not actually necessary any more, it is clearer to remove the comment and just return NULL instead -- the return value of ExecHash() is not used.
2005-03-16Revise TupleTableSlot code to avoid unnecessary construction and disassemblyTom Lane
of tuples when passing data up through multiple plan nodes. A slot can now hold either a normal "physical" HeapTuple, or a "virtual" tuple consisting of Datum/isnull arrays. Upper plan levels can usually just copy the Datum arrays, avoiding heap_formtuple() and possible subsequent nocachegetattr() calls to extract the data again. This work extends Atsushi Ogawa's earlier patch, which provided the key idea of adding Datum arrays to TupleTableSlots. (I believe however that something like this was foreseen way back in Berkeley days --- see the old comment on ExecProject.) A test case involving many levels of join of fairly wide tables (about 80 columns altogether) showed about 3x overall speedup, though simple queries will probably not be helped very much. I have also duplicated some code in heaptuple.c in order to provide versions of heap_formtuple and friends that use "bool" arrays to indicate null attributes, instead of the old convention of "char" arrays containing either 'n' or ' '. This provides a better match to the convention used by ExecEvalExpr. While I have not made a concerted effort to get rid of uses of the old routines, I think they should be deprecated and eventually removed.
2005-03-06Revise hash join code so that we can increase the number of batchesTom Lane
on-the-fly, and thereby avoid blowing out memory when the planner has underestimated the hash table size. Hash join will now obey the work_mem limit with some faithfulness. Per my recent proposal (hash aggregate part isn't done yet though).
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
2004-09-22Arrange for hash join to skip scanning the outer relation if it detectsTom Lane
that the inner one is completely empty. Per recent discussion. Also some cosmetic cleanups in nearby code.
2004-09-17Hashed LEFT JOIN would miss outer tuples with no inner match if the joinTom Lane
was large enough to be batched and the tuples fell into a batch where there were no inner tuples at all. Thanks to Xiaoyu Wang for finding a test case that exposed this long-standing bug.
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-05-30Use the new List API function names throughout the backend, and disable theNeil Conway
list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.
2004-05-26Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway
In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
2004-01-07More janitorial work: remove the explicit casting of NULL literals to aNeil Conway
pointer type when it is not necessary to do so. For future reference, casting NULL to a pointer type is only necessary when (a) invoking a function AND either (b) the function has no prototype OR (c) the function is a varargs function.
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-11-25Get rid of hashkeys field of Hash plan node, since it's redundant withTom Lane
the hashclauses field of the parent HashJoin. This avoids problems with duplicated links to SubPlans in hash clauses, as per report from Andrew Holm-Hansen.
2003-09-25Message editing: remove gratuitous variations in message wording, standardizePeter Eisentraut
terms, add some clarifications, fix some untranslatable attempts at dynamic message building.
2003-08-08Another pgindent run with updated typedefs.Bruce Momjian
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2003-08-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian