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2006-04-09Revert my best_inner_indexscan patch of yesterday, which turns out to haveTom Lane
had a bad side-effect: it stopped finding plans that involved BitmapAnd combinations of indexscans using both join and non-join conditions. Instead, make choose_bitmap_and more aggressive about detecting redundancies between BitmapOr subplans.
2006-04-08Fix best_inner_indexscan to actually enforce that an "inner indexscan" useTom Lane
at least one join condition as an indexqual. Before bitmap indexscans, this oversight didn't really cost much except for redundantly considering the same join paths twice; but as of 8.1 it could result in silly bitmap scans that would do the same BitmapOr twice and then BitmapAnd these together :-(
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2006-02-05Improve my initial, rather hacky implementation of joins to appendTom Lane
relations: fix the executor so that we can have an Append plan on the inside of a nestloop and still pass down outer index keys to index scans within the Append, then generate such plans as if they were regular inner indexscans. This avoids the need to evaluate the outer relation multiple times.
2006-01-29Fix Assert that's no longer correct now that RowCompareExpr is indexable.Tom Lane
2006-01-29Fix code that checks to see if an index can be considered to match the query'sTom Lane
requested sort order. It was assuming that build_index_pathkeys always generates a pathkey per index column, which was not true if implied equality deduction had determined that two index columns were effectively equated to each other. Simplest fix seems to be to install an option that causes build_index_pathkeys to support this behavior as well as the original one. Per report from Brian Hirt.
2006-01-26Clean up the INET-vs-CIDR situation. Get rid of the internal is_cidr flagTom Lane
and rely exclusively on the SQL type system to tell the difference between the types. Prevent creation of invalid CIDR values via casting from INET or set_masklen() --- both of these operations now silently zero any bits to the right of the netmask. Remove duplicate CIDR comparison operators, letting the type rely on the INET operators instead.
2006-01-25Allow row comparisons to be used as indexscan qualifications.Tom Lane
This completes the project to upgrade our handling of row comparisons.
2005-12-06In a nestloop inner indexscan, it's OK to use pushed-down baserestrictinfoTom Lane
clauses even if it's an outer join. This is a corner case since such clauses could only arise from weird OUTER JOIN ON conditions, but worth fixing. Per example from Ron at cheapcomplexdevices.com.
2005-11-30Tweak choose_bitmap_and() heuristics in the light of example provided in bugTom Lane
#2075: consider an index redundant if any of its index conditions were already used, rather than if all of them were. Also, make the selectivity comparison a bit fuzzy, so that very small differences in estimated selectivities don't skew the results.
2005-11-25Teach planner and executor to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr as an indexableTom Lane
qualification when the underlying operator is indexable and useOr is true. That is, indexkey op ANY (ARRAY[...]) is effectively translated into an OR combination of one indexscan for each array element. This only works for bitmap index scans, of course, since regular indexscans no longer support OR'ing of scans. There are still some loose ends to clean up before changing 'x IN (list)' to translate as a ScalarArrayOpExpr; for instance predtest.c ought to be taught about it. But this gets the basic functionality in place.
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.
2005-11-14Restore the former RestrictInfo field valid_everywhere (but invert the flagTom Lane
sense and rename to "outerjoin_delayed" to more clearly reflect what it means). I had decided that it was redundant in 8.1, but the folly of this is exposed by a bug report from Sebastian Böck. The place where it's needed is to prevent orindxpath.c from cherry-picking arms of an outer-join OR clause to form a relation restriction that isn't actually legal to push down to the relation scan level. There may be some legal cases that this forbids optimizing, but we'd need much closer analysis to determine it.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-09-24Clean up possibly-uninitialized-variable warnings reported by gcc 4.x.Tom Lane
2005-09-22Fix bug introduced into indexable_outerrelids() by an ill-consideredTom Lane
"optimization". When we find a potentially useful joinclause, we have to add all its other required_relids to the result, not only the other clause_relids. They are different in the case of a joinclause whose applicability has to be postponed due to outer join. We have to include the extra rels because otherwise, after best_inner_indexscan masks the join rels with index_outer_relids, it will always fail to find the joinclause as applicable. Per report from Husam Tomeh.
2005-08-28Tweak nodeBitmapAnd to stop evaluating sub-plan scans if it finds it'sTom Lane
got an empty bitmap after any step; the remaining subplans can no longer affect the result. Per a suggestion from Ilia Kantor.
2005-07-28Fix a bunch of bad interactions between partial indexes and the newTom Lane
planning logic for bitmap indexscans. Partial indexes create corner cases in which a scan might be done with no explicit index qual conditions, and the code wasn't handling those cases nicely. Also be a little tenser about eliminating redundant clauses in the generated plan. Per report from Dmitry Karasik.
2005-07-02Teach planner about some cases where a restriction clause can beTom Lane
propagated inside an outer join. In particular, given LEFT JOIN ON (A = B) WHERE A = constant, we cannot conclude that B = constant at the top level (B might be null instead), but we can nonetheless put a restriction B = constant into the quals for B's relation, since no inner-side rows not meeting that condition can contribute to the final result. Similarly, given FULL JOIN USING (J) WHERE J = constant, we can't directly conclude that either input J variable = constant, but it's OK to push such quals into each input rel. Per recent gripe from Kim Bisgaard. Along the way, remove 'valid_everywhere' flag from RestrictInfo, as on closer analysis it was not being used for anything, and was defined backwards anyway.
2005-06-14Teach planner to optionally ignore index columns that have an equalityTom Lane
constraint while determining whether the index sort order matches the query's ORDER BY. This for example allows an index on (x,y) to match ... WHERE x = 42 ORDER BY y; It only works for btree indexes, but since those are the only ones we currently have that are ordered at all, that's good enough for now. Per popular demand.
2005-06-13Change the planner to allow indexscan qualification clauses to useTom Lane
nonconsecutive columns of a multicolumn index, as per discussion around mid-May (pghackers thread "Best way to scan on-disk bitmaps"). This turns out to require only minimal changes in btree, and so far as I can see none at all in GiST. btcostestimate did need some work, but its original assumption that index selectivity == heap selectivity was quite bogus even before this.
2005-06-10Separate predicate-testing code out of indxpath.c, making it a moduleTom Lane
in its own right. As proposed by Simon Riggs, but with some editorializing of my own.
2005-06-09Simplify the planner's join clause management by storing join clausesTom Lane
of a relation in a flat 'joininfo' list. The former arrangement grouped the join clauses according to the set of unjoined relids used in each; however, profiling on test cases involving lots of joins proves that that data structure is a net loss. It takes more time to group the join clauses together than is saved by avoiding duplicate tests later. It doesn't help any that there are usually not more than one or two clauses per group ...
2005-06-05Remove planner's private fields from Query struct, and put them intoTom Lane
a new PlannerInfo struct, which is passed around instead of the bare Query in all the planning code. This commit is essentially just a code-beautification exercise, but it does open the door to making larger changes to the planner data structures without having to muck with the widely-known Query struct.
2005-05-06For some reason access/tupmacs.h has been #including utils/memutils.h,Tom Lane
which is neither needed by nor related to that header. Remove the bogus inclusion and instead include the header in those C files that actually need it. Also fix unnecessary inclusions and bad inclusion order in tsearch2 files.
2005-04-25While determining the filter clauses for an index scan (either plainTom Lane
or bitmap), use pred_test to be a little smarter about cases where a filter clause is logically unnecessary. This may be overkill for the plain indexscan case, but it's definitely useful for OR'd bitmap scans.
2005-04-25Remove support for OR'd indexscans internal to a single IndexScan planTom Lane
node, as this behavior is now better done as a bitmap OR indexscan. This allows considerable simplification in nodeIndexscan.c itself as well as several planner modules concerned with indexscan plan generation. Also we can improve the sharing of code between regular and bitmap indexscans, since they are now working with nigh-identical Plan nodes.
2005-04-23Teach choose_bitmap_and() to actually be choosy --- that is, try toTom Lane
make some estimate of which available indexes to AND together, rather than blindly taking 'em all. This could probably stand further improvement, but it seems to do OK in simple tests.
2005-04-22First cut at planner support for bitmap index scans. Lots to do yet,Tom Lane
but the code is basically working. Along the way, rewrite the entire approach to processing OR index conditions, and make it work in join cases for the first time ever. orindxpath.c is now basically obsolete, but I left it in for the time being to allow easy comparison testing against the old implementation.
2005-04-21Install some slightly realistic cost estimation for bitmap index scans.Tom Lane
2005-04-20Don't try to run clauseless index scans on index types that don't supportTom Lane
it. Per report from Marinos Yannikos.
2005-04-11Create the planner mechanism for optimizing simple MIN and MAX queriesTom Lane
into indexscans on matching indexes. For the moment, it only handles int4 and text datatypes; next step is to add a column to pg_aggregate so that all MIN/MAX aggregates can be handled. Per my recent proposal.
2005-03-28Rethink the order of expression preprocessing: eval_const_expressionsTom Lane
really ought to run before canonicalize_qual, because it can now produce forms that canonicalize_qual knows how to improve (eg, NOT clauses). Also, because eval_const_expressions already knows about flattening nested ANDs and ORs into N-argument form, the initial flatten_andors pass in canonicalize_qual is now completely redundant and can be removed. This doesn't save a whole lot of code, but the time and palloc traffic eliminated is a useful gain on large expression trees.
2005-03-27Add a back-link from IndexOptInfo structs to their parent RelOptInfoTom Lane
structs. There are many places in the planner where we were passing both a rel and an index to subroutines, and now need only pass the index struct. Notationally simpler, and perhaps a tad faster.
2005-03-26Expand the 'special index operator' machinery to handle special casesTom Lane
for boolean indexes. Previously we would only use such an index with WHERE clauses like 'indexkey = true' or 'indexkey = false'. The new code transforms the cases 'indexkey', 'NOT indexkey', 'indexkey IS TRUE', and 'indexkey IS FALSE' into one of these. While this is only marginally useful in itself, I intend soon to change constant-expression simplification so that 'foo = true' and 'foo = false' are reduced to just 'foo' and 'NOT foo' ... which would lose the ability to use boolean indexes for such queries at all, if the indexscan machinery couldn't make the reverse transformation.
2005-03-02Another go at making pred_test() handle all reasonable combinationsTom Lane
of AND and OR clauses. The key point here is that an OR on the predicate side has to be treated gingerly: we may be able to prove that the OR is implied even when no one of its components is implied. For example (x OR y) implies (x OR y OR z) even though no one of x, y, or z can be individually proven. This code handles both the example shown recently by Sergey Koshcheyev and the one shown last October by Dawid Kuroczko.
2005-03-01Revert the logic for expanding AND/OR conditions in pred_test() to whatTom Lane
it was in 7.4, and add some comments explaining why it has to be this way. I broke it for OR'd index predicates in a fit of code cleanup last summer. Per example from Sergey Koshcheyev.
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 ...
2004-11-05pred_test() logic was being too narrow-minded about where it might findTom Lane
RestrictInfo nodes in the query expression. Per example from James Robinson.
2004-10-11Fix OR-index-scan planner to recognize that a partial index is usableTom Lane
for scanning one term of an OR clause if the index's predicate is implied by that same OR clause term (possibly in conjunction with top-level WHERE clauses). Per recent example from Dawid Kuroczko, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-10/msg00095.php Also, fix a very long-standing bug in index predicate testing, namely the bizarre ordering of decomposition of predicate and restriction clauses. AFAICS the correct way is to break down the predicate all the way, and then for each component term see if you can prove it from the entire restriction set. The original coding had a purely-implementation-artifact distinction between ANDing at the top level and ANDing below that, and proceeded to get the decomposition order wrong everywhere below the top level, with the result that even slightly complicated AND/OR predicates could not be proven. For instance, given create index foop on foo(f2) where f1=42 or f1=1 or (f1 = 11 and f2 = 55); the old code would fail to match this index to the query select * from foo where f1 = 11 and f2 = 55; when it obviously ought to match.
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-04Label CVS tip as 8.0devel instead of 7.5devel. Adjust various commentsTom Lane
and documentation to reference 8.0 instead of 7.5.
2004-06-01Just about there on de-FastList-ification.Tom Lane
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.
2004-03-27Now that we are allowing index opclasses to contain operators that areTom Lane
only stable and not immutable, pred_test_simple_clause has to guard against making invalid deductions. Add a test for immutability of the selected test_op.
2004-03-07When testing usability of a partial index, recognize that an indexTom Lane
predicate of the form 'foo IS NOT NULL' is implied by a WHERE clause that uses 'foo' in any strict operator or function. Per suggestion and preliminary implementation by John Siracusa; some further hacking by moi.
2004-01-07Make some improvements in the intelligence of the partial-indexTom Lane
predicate tester. It can now deal with commuted clauses (for instance, 4 < x implies x > 3), subclauses more complicated than a simple Var (for example, upper(x) = 't' implies upper(x) > 'a'), and <> operators (for example, x < 3 implies x <> 4). Still only understands operators associated with btree opclasses, though. Inspired by example from Martin Hampl.
2004-01-05Adjust indexscan planning logic to keep RestrictInfo nodes associatedTom Lane
with index qual clauses in the Path representation. This saves a little work during createplan and (probably more importantly) allows reuse of cached selectivity estimates during indexscan planning. Also fix latent bug: wrong plan would have been generated for a 'special operator' used in a nestloop-inner-indexscan join qual, because the special operator would not have gotten into the list of quals to recheck. This bug is only latent because at present the special-operator code could never trigger on a join qual, but sooner or later someone will want to do it.