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2022-01-07Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-03Handle mixed returnable and non-returnable columns better in IOS.Tom Lane
We can revert the code changes of commit b5febc1d1 now, because commit 9a3ddeb51 installed a real solution for the difficulty that b5febc1d1 just dodged, namely that the planner might pick the wrong one of several index columns nominally containing the same value. It only matters which one we pick if we pick one that's not returnable, and that mistake is now foreclosed. Although both of the aforementioned commits were back-patched, I don't feel a need to take any risk by back-patching this one. The cases that it improves are very corner-ish. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3179992.1641150853@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-11-24Allow Memoize to operate in binary comparison modeDavid Rowley
Memoize would always use the hash equality operator for the cache key types to determine if the current set of parameters were the same as some previously cached set. Certain types such as floating points where -0.0 and +0.0 differ in their binary representation but are classed as equal by the hash equality operator may cause problems as unless the join uses the same operator it's possible that whichever join operator is being used would be able to distinguish the two values. In which case we may accidentally return in the incorrect rows out of the cache. To fix this here we add a binary mode to Memoize to allow it to the current set of parameters to previously cached values by comparing bit-by-bit rather than logically using the hash equality operator. This binary mode is always used for LATERAL joins and it's used for normal joins when any of the join operators are not hashable. Reported-by: Tom Lane Author: David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3004308.1632952496@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 14, where Memoize was added
2021-11-08Fix incorrect hash equality operator bug in MemoizeDavid Rowley
In v14, because we don't have a field in RestrictInfo to cache both the left and right type's hash equality operator, we just restrict the scope of Memoize to only when the left and right types of a RestrictInfo are the same. In master we add another field to RestrictInfo and cache both hash equality operators. Reported-by: Jaime Casanova Author: David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210929185544.GB24346%40ahch-to Backpatch-through: 14
2021-10-07Add missing word to comment in joinrels.c.Etsuro Fujita
Author: Amit Langote Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BHiwqGQNbtamQ_9DU3osR1XiWR4wxWFZurPmN6zgbdSZDeWmw%40mail.gmail.com
2021-09-15Remove arbitrary 64K-or-so limit on rangetable size.Tom Lane
Up to now the size of a query's rangetable has been limited by the constants INNER_VAR et al, which mustn't be equal to any real rangetable index. 65000 doubtless seemed like enough for anybody, and it still is orders of magnitude larger than the number of joins we can realistically handle. However, we need a rangetable entry for each child partition that is (or might be) processed by a query. Queries with a few thousand partitions are getting more realistic, so that the day when that limit becomes a problem is in sight, even if it's not here yet. Hence, let's raise the limit. Rather than just increase the values of INNER_VAR et al, this patch adopts the approach of making them small negative values, so that rangetables could theoretically become as long as INT_MAX. The bulk of the patch is concerned with changing Var.varno and some related variables from "Index" (unsigned int) to plain "int". This is basically cosmetic, with little actual effect other than to help debuggers print their values nicely. As such, I've only bothered with changing places that could actually see INNER_VAR et al, which the parser and most of the planner don't. We do have to be careful in places that are performing less/greater comparisons on varnos, but there are very few such places, other than the IS_SPECIAL_VARNO macro itself. A notable side effect of this patch is that while it used to be possible to add INNER_VAR et al to a Bitmapset, that will now draw an error. I don't see any likelihood that it wouldn't be a bug to include these fake varnos in a bitmapset of real varnos, so I think this is all to the good. Although this touches outfuncs/readfuncs, I don't think a catversion bump is required, since stored rules would never contain Vars with these fake varnos. Andrey Lepikhov and Tom Lane, after a suggestion by Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/43c7f2f5-1e27-27aa-8c65-c91859d15190@postgrespro.ru
2021-08-08Change NestPath node to contain JoinPath nodePeter Eisentraut
This makes the structure of all JoinPath-derived nodes the same, independent of whether they have additional fields. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c1097590-a6a4-486a-64b1-e1f9cc0533ce@enterprisedb.com
2021-08-03Allow ordered partition scans in more casesDavid Rowley
959d00e9d added the ability to make use of an Append node instead of a MergeAppend when we wanted to perform a scan of a partitioned table and the required sort order was the same as the partitioned keys and the partitioned table was defined in such a way that earlier partitions were guaranteed to only contain lower-order values than later partitions. However, previously we didn't allow these ordered partition scans for LIST partitioned table when there were any partitions that allowed multiple Datums. This was a very cheap check to make and we could likely have done a little better by checking if there were interleaved partitions, but at the time we didn't have visibility about which partitions were pruned, so we still may have disallowed cases where all interleaved partitions were pruned. Since 475dbd0b7, we now have knowledge of pruned partitions, we can do a much better job inside partitions_are_ordered(). Here we pass which partitions survived partition pruning into partitions_are_ordered() and, for LIST partitioning, have it check to see if any live partitions exist that are also in the new "interleaved_parts" field defined in PartitionBoundInfo. For RANGE partitioning we can relax the code which caused the partitions to be unordered if a DEFAULT partition existed. Since we now know which partitions were pruned, partitions_are_ordered() now returns true when the DEFAULT partition was pruned. Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Zhihong Yu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrdoN_sXU52i=QDXe2k3WAo=EVry29r2+Tq2WYcn2xhEA@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-03Track a Bitmapset of non-pruned partitions in RelOptInfoDavid Rowley
For partitioned tables with large numbers of partitions where queries are able to prune all but a very small number of partitions, the time spent in the planner looping over RelOptInfo.part_rels checking for non-NULL RelOptInfos could become a large portion of the overall planning time. Here we add a Bitmapset that records the non-pruned partitions. This allows us to more efficiently skip the pruned partitions by looping over the Bitmapset. This will cause a very slight slow down in cases where no or not many partitions could be pruned, however, those cases are already slow to plan anyway and the overhead of looping over the Bitmapset would be unmeasurable when compared with the other tasks such as path creation for a large number of partitions. Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Zhihong Yu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqnPx6JnUuPwaf5ao38zczrAb9mxt9gj4U1EKFfd4AqLA@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-25Get rid of artificial restriction on hash table sizes on Windows.Tom Lane
The point of introducing the hash_mem_multiplier GUC was to let users reproduce the old behavior of hash aggregation, i.e. that it could use more than work_mem at need. However, the implementation failed to get the job done on Win64, where work_mem is clamped to 2GB to protect various places that calculate memory sizes using "long int". As written, the same clamp was applied to hash_mem. This resulted in severe performance regressions for queries requiring a bit more than 2GB for hash aggregation, as they now spill to disk and there's no way to stop that. Getting rid of the work_mem restriction seems like a good idea, but it's a big job and could not conceivably be back-patched. However, there's only a fairly small number of places that are concerned with the hash_mem value, and it turns out to be possible to remove the restriction there without too much code churn or any ABI breaks. So, let's do that for now to fix the regression, and leave the larger task for another day. This patch does introduce a bit more infrastructure that should help with the larger task, namely pg_bitutils.h support for working with size_t values. Per gripe from Laurent Hasson. Back-patch to v13 where the behavior change came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/997817.1627074924@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MN2PR15MB25601E80A9B6D1BA6F592B1985E39@MN2PR15MB2560.namprd15.prod.outlook.com
2021-07-14Change the name of the Result Cache node to MemoizeDavid Rowley
"Result Cache" was never a great name for this node, but nobody managed to come up with another name that anyone liked enough. That was until David Johnston mentioned "Node Memoization", which Tom Lane revised to just "Memoize". People seem to like "Memoize", so let's do the rename. Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210708165145.GG1176@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 14, where Result Cache was introduced
2021-07-06Fix typo in commentDavid Rowley
Author: James Coleman Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8f8ENA0i1PdBtUNWDd2sxHSMgscNYbjhaXMuAdfBrZcg@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-24Add missing NULL check when building Result Cache pathsDavid Rowley
Code added in 9e215378d to disable building of Result Cache paths when not all join conditions are part of the parameterization of a unique join failed to first check if the inner path's param_info was set before checking the param_info's ppi_clauses. Add a check for NULL values here and just bail on trying to build the path if param_info is NULL. lateral_vars are not considered when deciding if the join is unique, so we're not missing out on doing the optimization when there are lateral_vars and no param_info. Reported-by: Coverity, via Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/457998.1621779290@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-05-22Fix planner's use of Result Cache with unique joinsDavid Rowley
When the planner considered using a Result Cache node to cache results from the inner side of a Nested Loop Join, it failed to consider that the inner path's parameterization may not be the entire join condition. If the join was marked as inner_unique then we may accidentally put the cache in singlerow mode. This meant that entries would be marked as complete after caching the first row. That was wrong as if only part of the join condition was parameterized then the uniqueness of the unique join was not guaranteed at the Result Cache's level. The uniqueness is only guaranteed after Nested Loop applies the join filter. If subsequent rows were found, this would lead to: ERROR: cache entry already complete This could have been fixed by only putting the cache in singlerow mode if the entire join condition was parameterized. However, Nested Loop will only read its inner side so far as the first matching row when the join is unique, so that might mean we never get an opportunity to mark cache entries as complete. Since non-complete cache entries are useless for subsequent lookups, we just don't bother considering a Result Cache path in this case. In passing, remove the XXX comment that claimed the above ERROR might be better suited to be an Assert. After there being an actual case which triggered it, it seems better to keep it an ERROR. Reported-by: David Christensen Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOxo6X+dy-V58iEPFgst8ahPKEU+38NZzUuc+a7wDBZd4TrHMQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-21doc: Improve hyphenation consistencyPeter Eisentraut
2021-04-20Rename find_em_expr_usable_for_sorting_rel.Tom Lane
I didn't particularly like this function name, as it fails to express what's going on. Also, returning the sort expression alone isn't too helpful --- typically, a caller would also need some other fields of the EquivalenceMember. But the sole caller really only needs a bool result, so let's make it "bool relation_can_be_sorted_early()". Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/91f3ec99-85a4-fa55-ea74-33f85a5c651f@swarm64.com
2021-04-20Fix planner failure in some cases of sorting by an aggregate.Tom Lane
An oversight introduced by the incremental-sort patches caused "could not find pathkey item to sort" errors in some situations where a sort key involves an aggregate or window function. The basic problem here is that find_em_expr_usable_for_sorting_rel isn't properly modeling what prepare_sort_from_pathkeys will do later. Rather than hoping we can keep those functions in sync, let's refactor so that they actually share the code for identifying a suitable sort expression. With this refactoring, tlist.c's tlist_member_ignore_relabel is unused. I removed it in HEAD but left it in place in v13, in case any extensions are using it. Per report from Luc Vlaming. Back-patch to v13 where the problem arose. James Coleman and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/91f3ec99-85a4-fa55-ea74-33f85a5c651f@swarm64.com
2021-04-14Fix obsolete comments referencing JoinPathExtraData.extra_lateral_rels.Tom Lane
That field went away in commit edca44b15, but it seems that commit 45be99f8c re-introduced some comments mentioning it. Noted by James Coleman, though this isn't exactly his proposed new wording. Also thanks to Justin Pryzby for software archaeology. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8fxZjq3na+XkNx4C78gDqykH-7dbnzygm9Qa9nuDTePg@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-08Speedup ScalarArrayOpExpr evaluationDavid Rowley
ScalarArrayOpExprs with "useOr=true" and a set of Consts on the righthand side have traditionally been evaluated by using a linear search over the array. When these arrays contain large numbers of elements then this linear search could become a significant part of execution time. Here we add a new method of evaluating ScalarArrayOpExpr expressions to allow them to be evaluated by first building a hash table containing each element, then on subsequent evaluations, we just probe that hash table to determine if there is a match. The planner is in charge of determining when this optimization is possible and it enables it by setting hashfuncid in the ScalarArrayOpExpr. The executor will only perform the hash table evaluation when the hashfuncid is set. This means that not all cases are optimized. For example CHECK constraints containing an IN clause won't go through the planner, so won't get the hashfuncid set. We could maybe do something about that at some later date. The reason we're not doing it now is from fear that we may slow down cases where the expression is evaluated only once. Those cases can be common, for example, a single row INSERT to a table with a CHECK constraint containing an IN clause. In the planner, we enable this when there are suitable hash functions for the ScalarArrayOpExpr's operator and only when there is at least MIN_ARRAY_SIZE_FOR_HASHED_SAOP elements in the array. The threshold is currently set to 9. Author: James Coleman, David Rowley Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra, Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8x62+=wn0zvNKCj55tPpg-JBHzhZFFc6ANovdqFw7-dA@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-02Add Result Cache executor node (take 2)David Rowley
Here we add a new executor node type named "Result Cache". The planner can include this node type in the plan to have the executor cache the results from the inner side of parameterized nested loop joins. This allows caching of tuples for sets of parameters so that in the event that the node sees the same parameter values again, it can just return the cached tuples instead of rescanning the inner side of the join all over again. Internally, result cache uses a hash table in order to quickly find tuples that have been previously cached. For certain data sets, this can significantly improve the performance of joins. The best cases for using this new node type are for join problems where a large portion of the tuples from the inner side of the join have no join partner on the outer side of the join. In such cases, hash join would have to hash values that are never looked up, thus bloating the hash table and possibly causing it to multi-batch. Merge joins would have to skip over all of the unmatched rows. If we use a nested loop join with a result cache, then we only cache tuples that have at least one join partner on the outer side of the join. The benefits of using a parameterized nested loop with a result cache increase when there are fewer distinct values being looked up and the number of lookups of each value is large. Also, hash probes to lookup the cache can be much faster than the hash probe in a hash join as it's common that the result cache's hash table is much smaller than the hash join's due to result cache only caching useful tuples rather than all tuples from the inner side of the join. This variation in hash probe performance is more significant when the hash join's hash table no longer fits into the CPU's L3 cache, but the result cache's hash table does. The apparent "random" access of hash buckets with each hash probe can cause a poor L3 cache hit ratio for large hash tables. Smaller hash tables generally perform better. The hash table used for the cache limits itself to not exceeding work_mem * hash_mem_multiplier in size. We maintain a dlist of keys for this cache and when we're adding new tuples and realize we've exceeded the memory budget, we evict cache entries starting with the least recently used ones until we have enough memory to add the new tuples to the cache. For parameterized nested loop joins, we now consider using one of these result cache nodes in between the nested loop node and its inner node. We determine when this might be useful based on cost, which is primarily driven off of what the expected cache hit ratio will be. Estimating the cache hit ratio relies on having good distinct estimates on the nested loop's parameters. For now, the planner will only consider using a result cache for parameterized nested loop joins. This works for both normal joins and also for LATERAL type joins to subqueries. It is possible to use this new node for other uses in the future. For example, to cache results from correlated subqueries. However, that's not done here due to some difficulties obtaining a distinct estimation on the outer plan to calculate the estimated cache hit ratio. Currently we plan the inner plan before planning the outer plan so there is no good way to know if a result cache would be useful or not since we can't estimate the number of times the subplan will be called until the outer plan is generated. The functionality being added here is newly introducing a dependency on the return value of estimate_num_groups() during the join search. Previously, during the join search, we only ever needed to perform selectivity estimations. With this commit, we need to use estimate_num_groups() in order to estimate what the hit ratio on the result cache will be. In simple terms, if we expect 10 distinct values and we expect 1000 outer rows, then we'll estimate the hit ratio to be 99%. Since cache hits are very cheap compared to scanning the underlying nodes on the inner side of the nested loop join, then this will significantly reduce the planner's cost for the join. However, it's fairly easy to see here that things will go bad when estimate_num_groups() incorrectly returns a value that's significantly lower than the actual number of distinct values. If this happens then that may cause us to make use of a nested loop join with a result cache instead of some other join type, such as a merge or hash join. Our distinct estimations have been known to be a source of trouble in the past, so the extra reliance on them here could cause the planner to choose slower plans than it did previous to having this feature. Distinct estimations are also fairly hard to estimate accurately when several tables have been joined already or when a WHERE clause filters out a set of values that are correlated to the expressions we're estimating the number of distinct value for. For now, the costing we perform during query planning for result caches does put quite a bit of faith in the distinct estimations being accurate. When these are accurate then we should generally see faster execution times for plans containing a result cache. However, in the real world, we may find that we need to either change the costings to put less trust in the distinct estimations being accurate or perhaps even disable this feature by default. There's always an element of risk when we teach the query planner to do new tricks that it decides to use that new trick at the wrong time and causes a regression. Users may opt to get the old behavior by turning the feature off using the enable_resultcache GUC. Currently, this is enabled by default. It remains to be seen if we'll maintain that setting for the release. Additionally, the name "Result Cache" is the best name I could think of for this new node at the time I started writing the patch. Nobody seems to strongly dislike the name. A few people did suggest other names but no other name seemed to dominate in the brief discussion that there was about names. Let's allow the beta period to see if the current name pleases enough people. If there's some consensus on a better name, then we can change it before the release. Please see the 2nd discussion link below for the discussion on the "Result Cache" name. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu, Hou Zhijie Tested-By: Konstantin Knizhnik Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrPcQyQdWERGYWx8J%2B2DLUNgXu%2BfOSbQ1UscxrunyXyrQ%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq=yQXr5kqhRviT2RhNKwToaWr9JAN5t+5_PzhuRJ3wvg@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-01Revert b6002a796David Rowley
This removes "Add Result Cache executor node". It seems that something weird is going on with the tracking of cache hits and misses as highlighted by many buildfarm animals. It's not yet clear what the problem is as other parts of the plan indicate that the cache did work correctly, it's just the hits and misses that were being reported as 0. This is especially a bad time to have the buildfarm so broken, so reverting before too many more animals go red. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq_hydhfovm4=izgWs+C5HqEeRScjMbOgbpC-jRAeK3Yw@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-01Add Result Cache executor nodeDavid Rowley
Here we add a new executor node type named "Result Cache". The planner can include this node type in the plan to have the executor cache the results from the inner side of parameterized nested loop joins. This allows caching of tuples for sets of parameters so that in the event that the node sees the same parameter values again, it can just return the cached tuples instead of rescanning the inner side of the join all over again. Internally, result cache uses a hash table in order to quickly find tuples that have been previously cached. For certain data sets, this can significantly improve the performance of joins. The best cases for using this new node type are for join problems where a large portion of the tuples from the inner side of the join have no join partner on the outer side of the join. In such cases, hash join would have to hash values that are never looked up, thus bloating the hash table and possibly causing it to multi-batch. Merge joins would have to skip over all of the unmatched rows. If we use a nested loop join with a result cache, then we only cache tuples that have at least one join partner on the outer side of the join. The benefits of using a parameterized nested loop with a result cache increase when there are fewer distinct values being looked up and the number of lookups of each value is large. Also, hash probes to lookup the cache can be much faster than the hash probe in a hash join as it's common that the result cache's hash table is much smaller than the hash join's due to result cache only caching useful tuples rather than all tuples from the inner side of the join. This variation in hash probe performance is more significant when the hash join's hash table no longer fits into the CPU's L3 cache, but the result cache's hash table does. The apparent "random" access of hash buckets with each hash probe can cause a poor L3 cache hit ratio for large hash tables. Smaller hash tables generally perform better. The hash table used for the cache limits itself to not exceeding work_mem * hash_mem_multiplier in size. We maintain a dlist of keys for this cache and when we're adding new tuples and realize we've exceeded the memory budget, we evict cache entries starting with the least recently used ones until we have enough memory to add the new tuples to the cache. For parameterized nested loop joins, we now consider using one of these result cache nodes in between the nested loop node and its inner node. We determine when this might be useful based on cost, which is primarily driven off of what the expected cache hit ratio will be. Estimating the cache hit ratio relies on having good distinct estimates on the nested loop's parameters. For now, the planner will only consider using a result cache for parameterized nested loop joins. This works for both normal joins and also for LATERAL type joins to subqueries. It is possible to use this new node for other uses in the future. For example, to cache results from correlated subqueries. However, that's not done here due to some difficulties obtaining a distinct estimation on the outer plan to calculate the estimated cache hit ratio. Currently we plan the inner plan before planning the outer plan so there is no good way to know if a result cache would be useful or not since we can't estimate the number of times the subplan will be called until the outer plan is generated. The functionality being added here is newly introducing a dependency on the return value of estimate_num_groups() during the join search. Previously, during the join search, we only ever needed to perform selectivity estimations. With this commit, we need to use estimate_num_groups() in order to estimate what the hit ratio on the result cache will be. In simple terms, if we expect 10 distinct values and we expect 1000 outer rows, then we'll estimate the hit ratio to be 99%. Since cache hits are very cheap compared to scanning the underlying nodes on the inner side of the nested loop join, then this will significantly reduce the planner's cost for the join. However, it's fairly easy to see here that things will go bad when estimate_num_groups() incorrectly returns a value that's significantly lower than the actual number of distinct values. If this happens then that may cause us to make use of a nested loop join with a result cache instead of some other join type, such as a merge or hash join. Our distinct estimations have been known to be a source of trouble in the past, so the extra reliance on them here could cause the planner to choose slower plans than it did previous to having this feature. Distinct estimations are also fairly hard to estimate accurately when several tables have been joined already or when a WHERE clause filters out a set of values that are correlated to the expressions we're estimating the number of distinct value for. For now, the costing we perform during query planning for result caches does put quite a bit of faith in the distinct estimations being accurate. When these are accurate then we should generally see faster execution times for plans containing a result cache. However, in the real world, we may find that we need to either change the costings to put less trust in the distinct estimations being accurate or perhaps even disable this feature by default. There's always an element of risk when we teach the query planner to do new tricks that it decides to use that new trick at the wrong time and causes a regression. Users may opt to get the old behavior by turning the feature off using the enable_resultcache GUC. Currently, this is enabled by default. It remains to be seen if we'll maintain that setting for the release. Additionally, the name "Result Cache" is the best name I could think of for this new node at the time I started writing the patch. Nobody seems to strongly dislike the name. A few people did suggest other names but no other name seemed to dominate in the brief discussion that there was about names. Let's allow the beta period to see if the current name pleases enough people. If there's some consensus on a better name, then we can change it before the release. Please see the 2nd discussion link below for the discussion on the "Result Cache" name. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu Tested-By: Konstantin Knizhnik Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrPcQyQdWERGYWx8J%2B2DLUNgXu%2BfOSbQ1UscxrunyXyrQ%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq=yQXr5kqhRviT2RhNKwToaWr9JAN5t+5_PzhuRJ3wvg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-31Rework planning and execution of UPDATE and DELETE.Tom Lane
This patch makes two closely related sets of changes: 1. For UPDATE, the subplan of the ModifyTable node now only delivers the new values of the changed columns (i.e., the expressions computed in the query's SET clause) plus row identity information such as CTID. ModifyTable must re-fetch the original tuple to merge in the old values of any unchanged columns. The core advantage of this is that the changed columns are uniform across all tables of an inherited or partitioned target relation, whereas the other columns might not be. A secondary advantage, when the UPDATE involves joins, is that less data needs to pass through the plan tree. The disadvantage of course is an extra fetch of each tuple to be updated. However, that seems to be very nearly free in context; even worst-case tests don't show it to add more than a couple percent to the total query cost. At some point it might be interesting to combine the re-fetch with the tuple access that ModifyTable must do anyway to mark the old tuple dead; but that would require a good deal of refactoring and it seems it wouldn't buy all that much, so this patch doesn't attempt it. 2. For inherited UPDATE/DELETE, instead of generating a separate subplan for each target relation, we now generate a single subplan that is just exactly like a SELECT's plan, then stick ModifyTable on top of that. To let ModifyTable know which target relation a given incoming row refers to, a tableoid junk column is added to the row identity information. This gets rid of the horrid hack that was inheritance_planner(), eliminating O(N^2) planning cost and memory consumption in cases where there were many unprunable target relations. Point 2 of course requires point 1, so that there is a uniform definition of the non-junk columns to be returned by the subplan. We can't insist on uniform definition of the row identity junk columns however, if we want to keep the ability to have both plain and foreign tables in a partitioning hierarchy. Since it wouldn't scale very far to have every child table have its own row identity column, this patch includes provisions to merge similar row identity columns into one column of the subplan result. In particular, we can merge the whole-row Vars typically used as row identity by FDWs into one column by pretending they are type RECORD. (It's still okay for the actual composite Datums to be labeled with the table's rowtype OID, though.) There is more that can be done to file down residual inefficiencies in this patch, but it seems to be committable now. FDW authors should note several API changes: * The argument list for AddForeignUpdateTargets() has changed, and so has the method it must use for adding junk columns to the query. Call add_row_identity_var() instead of manipulating the parse tree directly. You might want to reconsider exactly what you're adding, too. * PlanDirectModify() must now work a little harder to find the ForeignScan plan node; if the foreign table is part of a partitioning hierarchy then the ForeignScan might not be the direct child of ModifyTable. See postgres_fdw for sample code. * To check whether a relation is a target relation, it's no longer sufficient to compare its relid to root->parse->resultRelation. Instead, check it against all_result_relids or leaf_result_relids, as appropriate. Amit Langote and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHpHdqdDn48yCEhynnniahH78rwcrv1rEX65-fsZGBOLQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-31Add support for asynchronous execution.Etsuro Fujita
This implements asynchronous execution, which runs multiple parts of a non-parallel-aware Append concurrently rather than serially to improve performance when possible. Currently, the only node type that can be run concurrently is a ForeignScan that is an immediate child of such an Append. In the case where such ForeignScans access data on different remote servers, this would run those ForeignScans concurrently, and overlap the remote operations to be performed simultaneously, so it'll improve the performance especially when the operations involve time-consuming ones such as remote join and remote aggregation. We may extend this to other node types such as joins or aggregates over ForeignScans in the future. This also adds the support for postgres_fdw, which is enabled by the table-level/server-level option "async_capable". The default is false. Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, and myself. This commit is mostly based on the patch proposed by Robert Haas, but also uses stuff from the patch proposed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and from the patch proposed by Thomas Munro. Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Konstantin Knizhnik, Andrey Lepikhov, Movead Li, Thomas Munro, Justin Pryzby, and others. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoaXQEt4tZ03FtQhnzeDEMzBck%2BLrni0UWHVVgOTnA6C1w%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLBRyu0rHrDCMC4%3DRn3252gogyp1SjOgG8SEKKZv%3DFwfQ%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228.170650.667613673625155850.horikyota.ntt%40gmail.com
2021-03-30Allow estimate_num_groups() to pass back further details about the estimationDavid Rowley
Here we add a new output parameter to estimate_num_groups() to allow it to inform the caller of additional, possibly useful information about the estimation. The new output parameter is a struct that currently contains just a single field with a set of flags. This was done rather than having the flags as an output parameter to allow future fields to be added without having to change the signature of the function at a later date when we want to pass back further information that might not be suitable to store in the flags field. It seems reasonable that one day in the future that the planner would want to know more about the estimation. For example, how many individual sets of statistics was the estimation generated from? The planner may want to take that into account if we ever want to consider risks as well as costs when generating plans. For now, there's only 1 flag we set in the flags field. This is to indicate if the estimation fell back on using the hard-coded constants in any part of the estimation. Callers may like to change their behavior if this is set, and this gives them the ability to do so. Callers may pass the flag pointer as NULL if they have no interest in obtaining any additional information about the estimate. We're not adding any actual usages of these flags here. Some follow-up commits will make use of this feature. Additionally, we're also not making any changes to add support for clauselist_selectivity() and clauselist_selectivity_ext(). However, if this is required in the future then the same struct being added here should be fine to use as a new output argument for those functions too. Author: David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqQqpk=1W-G_ds7A9CsXX3BggWj_7okinzkLVhDubQzjA@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-29Cache if PathTarget and RestrictInfos contain volatile functionsDavid Rowley
Here we aim to reduce duplicate work done by contain_volatile_functions() by caching whether PathTargets and RestrictInfos contain any volatile functions the first time contain_volatile_functions() is called for them. Any future calls for these nodes just use the cached value rather than going to the trouble of recursively checking the sub-node all over again. Thanks to Tom Lane for the idea. Any locations in the code which make changes to a PathTarget or RestrictInfo which could change the outcome of the volatility check must change the cached value back to VOLATILITY_UNKNOWN again. contain_volatile_functions() is the only code in charge of setting the cache value to either VOLATILITY_VOLATILE or VOLATILITY_NOVOLATILE. Some existing code does benefit from this additional caching, however, this change is mainly aimed at an upcoming patch that must check for volatility during the join search. Repeated volatility checks in that case can become very expensive when the join search contains more than a few relations. Author: David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3795226.1614059027@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-03-24Revert "Enable parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ..."."Amit Kapila
To allow inserts in parallel-mode this feature has to ensure that all the constraints, triggers, etc. are parallel-safe for the partition hierarchy which is costly and we need to find a better way to do that. Additionally, we could have used existing cached information in some cases like indexes, domains, etc. to determine the parallel-safety. List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order: ed62d3737c Doc: Update description for parallel insert reloption. c8f78b6161 Add a new GUC and a reloption to enable inserts in parallel-mode. c5be48f092 Improve FK trigger parallel-safety check added by 05c8482f7f. e2cda3c20a Fix use of relcache TriggerDesc field introduced by commit 05c8482f7f. e4e87a32cc Fix valgrind issue in commit 05c8482f7f. 05c8482f7f Enable parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...". Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1lMiB9-0001c3-SY@gemulon.postgresql.org
2021-03-18Add a new GUC and a reloption to enable inserts in parallel-mode.Amit Kapila
Commit 05c8482f7f added the implementation of parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ..." which may incur non-negligible overhead in the additional parallel-safety checks that it performs, even when, in the end, those checks determine that parallelism can't be used. This is normally only ever a problem in the case of when the target table has a large number of partitions. A new GUC option "enable_parallel_insert" is added, to allow insert in parallel-mode. The default is on. In addition to the GUC option, the user may want a mechanism to allow inserts in parallel-mode with finer granularity at table level. The new table option "parallel_insert_enabled" allows this. The default is true. Author: "Hou, Zhijie" Reviewed-by: Greg Nancarrow, Amit Langote, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1K-cW7svLC2D7DHoGHxdAdg3P37BLgebqBOC2ZLc9a6QQ%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cXnB5cnMKqWEp2E2z7Mvcd04iLVmV=qpFJrR3AcrTS3g@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-27Add TID Range Scans to support efficient scanning ranges of TIDsDavid Rowley
This adds a new executor node named TID Range Scan. The query planner will generate paths for TID Range scans when quals are discovered on base relations which search for ranges on the table's ctid column. These ranges may be open at either end. For example, WHERE ctid >= '(10,0)'; will return all tuples on page 10 and over. To support this, two new optional callback functions have been added to table AM. scan_set_tidrange is used to set the scan range to just the given range of TIDs. scan_getnextslot_tidrange fetches the next tuple in the given range. For AMs were scanning ranges of TIDs would not make sense, these functions can be set to NULL in the TableAmRoutine. The query planner won't generate TID Range Scan Paths in that case. Author: Edmund Horner, David Rowley Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Zhihong Yu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMyN-kB-nFTkF=VA_JPwFNo08S0d-Yk0F741S2B7LDmYAi8eyA@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-23Fix confusion in comments about generate_gather_pathsAlvaro Herrera
d2d8a229bc58 introduced a new function generate_useful_gather_paths to be used as a replacement for generate_gather_paths, but forgot to update a couple of places that referenced the older function. This is possibly not 100% complete (ref. create_ordered_paths), but it's better than not changing anything. Author: "Hou, Zhijie" <houzj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4ce1d5116fe746a699a6d29858c6a39a@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2021-02-01Remove [Merge]AppendPath.partitioned_rels.Tom Lane
It turns out that the calculation of [Merge]AppendPath.partitioned_rels in allpaths.c is faulty and sometimes omits relevant non-leaf partitions, allowing an assertion added by commit a929e17e5a8 to trigger. Rather than fix that, it seems better to get rid of those fields altogether. We don't really need the info until create_plan time, and calculating it once for the selected plan should be cheaper than calculating it for each append path we consider. The preceding two commits did away with all use of the partitioned_rels values; this commit just mechanically removes the fields and the code that calculated them. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sg8tqhsl.fsf@aurora.ydns.eu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJKUy5gCXDSmFs2c=R+VGgn7FiYcLCsEFEuDNNLGfoha=pBE_g@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-21Fix pull_varnos' miscomputation of relids set for a PlaceHolderVar.Tom Lane
Previously, pull_varnos() took the relids of a PlaceHolderVar as being equal to the relids in its contents, but that fails to account for the possibility that we have to postpone evaluation of the PHV due to outer joins. This could result in a malformed plan. The known cases end up triggering the "failed to assign all NestLoopParams to plan nodes" sanity check in createplan.c, but other symptoms may be possible. The right value to use is the join level we actually intend to evaluate the PHV at. We can get that from the ph_eval_at field of the associated PlaceHolderInfo. However, there are some places that call pull_varnos() before the PlaceHolderInfos have been created; in that case, fall back to the conservative assumption that the PHV will be evaluated at its syntactic level. (In principle this might result in missing some legal optimization, but I'm not aware of any cases where it's an issue in practice.) Things are also a bit ticklish for calls occurring during deconstruct_jointree(), but AFAICS the ph_eval_at fields should have reached their final values by the time we need them. The main problem in making this work is that pull_varnos() has no way to get at the PlaceHolderInfos. We can fix that easily, if a bit tediously, in HEAD by passing it the planner "root" pointer. In the back branches that'd cause an unacceptable API/ABI break for extensions, so leave the existing entry points alone and add new ones with the additional parameter. (If an old entry point is called and encounters a PHV, it'll fall back to using the syntactic level, again possibly missing some valid optimization.) Back-patch to v12. The computation is surely also wrong before that, but it appears that we cannot reach a bad plan thanks to join order restrictions imposed on the subquery that the PlaceHolderVar came from. The error only became reachable when commit 4be058fe9 allowed trivial subqueries to be collapsed out completely, eliminating their join order restrictions. Per report from Stephan Springl. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/171041.1610849523@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-12-22Improve find_em_expr_usable_for_sorting_rel commentTomas Vondra
Clarify the relationship between find_em_expr_usable_for_sorting_rel and prepare_sort_from_pathkeys, i.e. what restrictions need to be shared between those two places. Author: James Coleman Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8cK3g5CfLC4w7bs%3DhC0mSksZC%3DH5M8LSchj5e5OxpTAg%40mail.gmail.com
2020-12-21Don't search for volatile expr in find_em_expr_usable_for_sorting_relTomas Vondra
While prepare_sort_from_pathkeys has to be concerned about matching up a volatile expression to the proper tlist entry, we don't need to do that in find_em_expr_usable_for_sorting_rel becausee such a sort will have to be postponed anyway. Author: James Coleman Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8cK3g5CfLC4w7bs%3DhC0mSksZC%3DH5M8LSchj5e5OxpTAg%40mail.gmail.com
2020-12-21Disallow SRFs when considering sorts below Gather MergeTomas Vondra
While we do allow SRFs in ORDER BY, scan/join processing should not consider such cases - such sorts should only happen via final Sort atop a ProjectSet. So make sure we don't try adding such sorts below Gather Merge, just like we do for expressions that are volatile and/or not parallel safe. Backpatch to PostgreSQL 13, where this code was introduced as part of the Incremental Sort patch. Author: James Coleman Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8cK3g5CfLC4w7bs=hC0mSksZC=H5M8LSchj5e5OxpTAg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/295524.1606246314%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-21Check parallel safety in generate_useful_gather_pathsTomas Vondra
Commit ebb7ae839d ensured we ignore pathkeys with volatile expressions when considering adding a sort below a Gather Merge. Turns out we need to care about parallel safety of the pathkeys too, otherwise we might try sorting e.g. on results of a correlated subquery (as demonstrated by a report from Luis Roberto). Initial investigation by Tom Lane, patch by James Coleman. Backpatch to 13, where the code was instroduced (as part of Incremental Sort). Reported-by: Luis Roberto Author: James Coleman Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/622580997.37108180.1604080457319.JavaMail.zimbra%40siscobra.com.br Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8cK3g5CfLC4w7bs=hC0mSksZC=H5M8LSchj5e5OxpTAg@mail.gmail.com
2020-12-21Consider unsorted paths in generate_useful_gather_pathsTomas Vondra
generate_useful_gather_paths used to skip unsorted paths (without any pathkeys), but that is unnecessary - the later code actually can handle such paths just fine by adding a Sort node. This is clearly a thinko, preventing construction of useful plans. Backpatch to 13, where Incremental Sort was introduced. Author: James Coleman Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8cK3g5CfLC4w7bs=hC0mSksZC=H5M8LSchj5e5OxpTAg@mail.gmail.com
2020-12-08Improve estimation of ANDs under ORs using extended statistics.Dean Rasheed
Formerly, extended statistics only handled clauses that were RestrictInfos. However, the restrictinfo machinery doesn't create sub-AND RestrictInfos for AND clauses underneath OR clauses. Therefore teach extended statistics to handle bare AND clauses, looking for compatible RestrictInfo clauses underneath them. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Tomas Vondra. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCW=J65GUFm50RcPv-iASnS2mTXQbr=CfBvWRVhFLJ_fWA@mail.gmail.com
2020-12-03Improve estimation of OR clauses using extended statistics.Dean Rasheed
Formerly we only applied extended statistics to an OR clause as part of the clauselist_selectivity() code path for an OR clause appearing in an implicitly-ANDed list of clauses. This meant that it could only use extended statistics if all sub-clauses of the OR clause were covered by a single extended statistics object. Instead, teach clause_selectivity() how to apply extended statistics to an OR clause by handling its ORed list of sub-clauses in a similar manner to an implicitly-ANDed list of sub-clauses, but with different combination rules. This allows one or more extended statistics objects to be used to estimate all or part of the list of sub-clauses. Any remaining sub-clauses are then treated as if they are independent. Additionally, to avoid double-application of extended statistics, this introduces "extended" versions of clause_selectivity() and clauselist_selectivity(), which include an option to ignore extended statistics. This replaces the old clauselist_selectivity_simple() function which failed to completely ignore extended statistics when called from the extended statistics code. A known limitation of the current infrastructure is that an AND clause under an OR clause is not treated as compatible with extended statistics (because we don't build RestrictInfos for such sub-AND clauses). Thus, for example, "(a=1 AND b=1) OR (a=2 AND b=2)" will currently be treated as two independent AND clauses (each of which may be estimated using extended statistics), but extended statistics will not currently be used to account for any possible overlap between those clauses. Improving that is left as a task for the future. Original patch by Tomas Vondra, with additional improvements by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200113230008.g67iyk4cs3xbnjju@development
2020-11-24Move per-agg and per-trans duplicate finding to the planner.Heikki Linnakangas
This has the advantage that the cost estimates for aggregates can count the number of calls to transition and final functions correctly. Bump catalog version, because views can contain Aggrefs. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b2e3536b-1dbc-8303-c97e-89cb0b4a9a48%40iki.fi
2020-11-03Fix get_useful_pathkeys_for_relation for volatile expressionsTomas Vondra
When considering Incremental Sort below a Gather Merge, we need to be a bit more careful when matching pathkeys to EC members. It's not enough to find a member whose Vars are all in the current relation's target; volatile expressions in particular need to be contained in the target, otherwise it's too early to use the pathkey. Reported-by: Jaime Casanova Author: James Coleman Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra Backpatch-through: 13, where the incremental sort code was added Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJGNTeNaxpXgBVcRhJX%2B2vSbq%2BF2kJqGBcvompmpvXb7pq%2BoFA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-11-02Fix some grammar and typos in comments and docsMichael Paquier
The documentation fixes are backpatched down to where they apply. Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201031020801.GD3080@telsasoft.com Backpatch-through: 9.6
2020-11-02Allow run-time pruning on nested Append/MergeAppend nodesDavid Rowley
Previously we only tagged on the required information to allow the executor to perform run-time partition pruning for Append/MergeAppend nodes belonging to base relations. It was thought that nested Append/MergeAppend nodes were just about always pulled up into the top-level Append/MergeAppend and that making the run-time pruning info for any sub Append/MergeAppend nodes was a waste of time. However, that was likely badly thought through. Some examples of cases we're unable to pullup nested Append/MergeAppends are: 1) Parallel Append nodes with a mix of parallel and non-parallel paths into a Parallel Append. 2) When planning an ordered Append scan a sub-partition which is unordered may require a nested MergeAppend path to ensure sub-partitions don't mix up the order of tuples being fed into the top-level Append. Unfortunately, it was not just as simple as removing the lines in createplan.c which were purposefully not building the run-time pruning info for anything but RELOPT_BASEREL relations. The code in add_paths_to_append_rel() was far too sloppy about which partitioned_rels it included for the Append/MergeAppend paths. The original code there would always assume accumulate_append_subpath() would pull each sub-Append and sub-MergeAppend path into the top-level path. While it does not appear that there were any actual bugs caused by having the additional partitioned table RT indexes recorded, what it did mean is that later in planning, when we built the run-time pruning info that we wasted effort and built PartitionedRelPruneInfos for partitioned tables that we had no subpaths for the executor to run-time prune. Here we tighten that up so that partitioned_rels only ever contains the RT index for partitioned tables which actually have subpaths in the given Append/MergeAppend. We can now Assert that every PartitionedRelPruneInfo has a non-empty present_parts. That should allow us to catch any weird corner cases that have been missed. In passing, it seems there is no longer a good reason to have the AppendPath and MergeAppendPath's partitioned_rel fields a List of IntList. We can simply have a List of Relids instead. This is more compact in memory and faster to add new members to. We still know which is the root level partition as these always have a lower relid than their children. Previously this field was used for more things, but run-time partition pruning now remains the only user of it and it has no need for a List of IntLists. Here we also get rid of the RelOptInfo partitioned_child_rels field. This is what was previously used to (sometimes incorrectly) set the Append/MergeAppend path's partitioned_rels field. That was the only usage of that field, so we can happily just remove it. I also couldn't resist changing some nearby code to make use of the newly added for_each_from macro so we can skip the first element in the list without checking if the current item was the first one on each iteration. A bug report from Andreas Kretschmer prompted all this work, however, after some consideration, I'm not personally classing this as a bug fix. So no backpatch. In Andreas' test case, it just wasn't that clear that there was a nested Append since the top-level Append just had a single sub-path which was pulled up a level, per 8edd0e794. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAApHDvqSchs%2BubdybcfFaSPB%2B%2BEA7kqMaoqajtP0GtZvzOOR3g%40mail.gmail.com
2020-10-28Fix foreign-key selectivity estimation in the presence of constants.Tom Lane
get_foreign_key_join_selectivity() looks for join clauses that equate the two sides of the FK constraint. However, if we have a query like "WHERE fktab.a = pktab.a and fktab.a = 1", it won't find any such join clause, because equivclass.c replaces the given clauses with "fktab.a = 1 and pktab.a = 1", which can be enforced at the scan level, leaving nothing to be done for column "a" at the join level. We can fix that expectation without much trouble, but then a new problem arises: applying the foreign-key-based selectivity rule produces a rowcount underestimate, because we're effectively double-counting the selectivity of the "fktab.a = 1" clause. So we have to cancel that selectivity out of the estimate. To fix, refactor process_implied_equality() so that it can pass back the new RestrictInfo to its callers in equivclass.c, allowing the generated "fktab.a = 1" clause to be saved in the EquivalenceClass's ec_derives list. Then it's not much trouble to dig out the relevant RestrictInfo when we need to adjust an FK selectivity estimate. (While at it, we can also remove the expensive use of initialize_mergeclause_eclasses() to set up the new RestrictInfo's left_ec and right_ec pointers. The equivclass.c code can set those basically for free.) This seems like clearly a bug fix, but I'm hesitant to back-patch it, first because there's some API/ABI risk for extensions and second because we're usually loath to destabilize plan choices in stable branches. Per report from Sigrid Ehrenreich. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1019549.1603770457@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AM6PR02MB5287A0ADD936C1FA80973E72AB190@AM6PR02MB5287.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
2020-10-22Optimize a few list_delete_ptr callsDavid Rowley
There is a handful of places where we called list_delete_ptr() to remove some element from a List. In many of these places we know, or with very little additional effort know the index of the ListCell that we need to remove. Here we change all of those places to instead either use one of; list_delete_nth_cell(), foreach_delete_current() or list_delete_last(). Each of these saves from having to iterate over the list to search for the element to remove by its pointer value. There are some small performance gains to be had by doing this, but in the general case, none of these lists are likely to be very large, so the lookup was probably never that expensive anyway. However, some of the calls are in fairly hot code paths, e.g process_equivalence(). So any small gains there are useful. Author: Zhijie Hou and David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b3517353ec7c4f87aa560678fbb1034b@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2020-10-19Prevent overly large and NaN row estimates in relationsDavid Rowley
Given a query with enough joins, it was possible that the query planner, after multiplying the row estimates with the join selectivity that the estimated number of rows would exceed the limits of the double data type and become infinite. To give an indication on how extreme a case is required to hit this, the particular example case reported required 379 joins to a table without any statistics, which resulted in the 1.0/DEFAULT_NUM_DISTINCT being used for the join selectivity. This eventually caused the row estimates to go infinite and resulted in an assert failure in initial_cost_mergejoin() where the infinite row estimated was multiplied by an outerstartsel of 0.0 resulting in NaN. The failing assert verified that NaN <= Inf, which is false. To get around this we use clamp_row_est() to cap row estimates at a maximum of 1e100. This value is thought to be low enough that costs derived from it would remain within the bounds of what the double type can represent. Aside from fixing the failing Assert, this also has the added benefit of making it so add_path() will still receive proper numerical values as costs which will allow it to make more sane choices when determining the cheaper path in extreme cases such as the one described above. Additionally, we also get rid of the isnan() checks in the join costing functions. The actual case which originally triggered those checks to be added in the first place never made it to the mailing lists. It seems likely that the new code being added to clamp_row_est() will result in those becoming checks redundant, so just remove them. The fairly harmless assert failure problem does also exist in the backbranches, however, a more minimalistic fix will be applied there. Reported-by: Onder Kalaci Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM6PR21MB1211FF360183BCA901B27F04D80B0@DM6PR21MB1211.namprd21.prod.outlook.com
2020-10-06Build EC members for child join rels in the right memory context.Tom Lane
This patch prevents crashes or wrong plans when partition-wise joins are considered during GEQO planning, as a consequence of the EquivalenceClass data structures becoming corrupt after a GEQO context reset. A remaining problem is that successive GEQO cycles will make multiple copies of the required EC members, since add_child_join_rel_equivalences has no idea that such members might exist already. For now we'll just live with that. The lack of field complaints of crashes suggests that this is a mighty little-used situation. Back-patch to v12 where this code was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1683100.1601860653@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-05Fix two latent(?) bugs in equivclass.c.Tom Lane
get_eclass_for_sort_expr() computes expr_relids and nullable_relids early on, even though they won't be needed unless we make a new EquivalenceClass, which we often don't. Aside from the probably-minor inefficiency, there's a memory management problem: these bitmapsets will be built in the caller's context, leading to dangling pointers if that is shorter-lived than root->planner_cxt. This would be a live bug if get_eclass_for_sort_expr() could be called with create_it = true during GEQO join planning. So far as I can find, the core code never does that, but it's hard to be sure that no extensions do, especially since the comments make it clear that that's supposed to be a supported case. Fix by not computing these values until we've switched into planner_cxt to build the new EquivalenceClass. generate_join_implied_equalities() uses inner_rel->relids to look up relevant eclasses, but it ought to be using nominal_inner_relids. This is presently harmless because a child RelOptInfo will always have exactly the same eclass_indexes as its topmost parent; but that might not be true forever, and anyway it makes the code confusing. The first of these is old (introduced by me in f3b3b8d5b), so back-patch to all supported branches. The second only dates to v13, but we might as well back-patch it to keep the code looking similar across branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1508010.1601832581@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-07Adjust cost model for HashAgg that spills to disk.Jeff Davis
Tomas Vondra observed that the IO behavior for HashAgg tends to be worse than for Sort. Penalize HashAgg IO costs accordingly. Also, account for the CPU effort of spilling the tuples and reading them back. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200906212112.nzoy5ytrzjjodpfh@development Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra Backpatch-through: 13