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2024-10-09Consider explicit incremental sort for mergejoinsRichard Guo
For a mergejoin, if the given outer path or inner path is not already well enough ordered, we need to do an explicit sort. Currently, we only consider explicit full sort and do not account for incremental sort. In this patch, for the outer path of a mergejoin, we choose to use explicit incremental sort if it is enabled and there are presorted keys. For the inner path, though, we cannot use incremental sort because it does not support mark/restore at present. The rationale is based on the assumption that incremental sort is always faster than full sort when there are presorted keys, a premise that has been applied in various parts of the code. In addition, the current cost model tends to favor incremental sort as being cheaper than full sort in the presence of presorted keys, making it reasonable not to consider full sort in such cases. It could be argued that what if a mergejoin with an incremental sort as the outer path is selected as the inner path of another mergejoin. However, this should not be a problem, because mergejoin itself does not support mark/restore either, and we will add a Material node on top of it anyway in this case (see final_cost_mergejoin). There is one ensuing plan change in the regression tests, and we have to modify that test case to ensure that it continues to test what it is intended to. No backpatch as this could result in plan changes. Author: Richard Guo Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49x425QrX7h=Ux05WEnt8GS757H-jOP3_xsX5t1FoUsZw@mail.gmail.com
2024-09-27Recalculate where-needed data accurately after a join removal.Tom Lane
Up to now, remove_rel_from_query() has done a pretty shoddy job of updating our where-needed bitmaps (per-Var attr_needed and per-PlaceHolderVar ph_needed relid sets). It removed direct mentions of the to-be-removed baserel and outer join, which is the minimum amount of effort needed to keep the data structures self-consistent. But it didn't account for the fact that the removed join ON clause probably mentioned Vars of other relations, and those Vars might now not be needed as high up in the join tree as before. It's easy to show cases where this results in failing to remove a lower outer join that could also have been removed. To fix, recalculate the where-needed bitmaps from scratch after each successful join removal. This sounds expensive, but it seems to add only negligible planner runtime. (We cheat a little bit by preserving "relation 0" entries in the bitmaps, allowing us to skip re-scanning the targetlist and HAVING qual.) The submitted test case drew attention because we had successfully optimized away the lower join prior to v16. I suspect that that's somewhat accidental and there are related cases that were never optimized before and now can be. I've not tried to come up with one, though. Perhaps we should back-patch this into v16 and v17 to repair the performance regression. However, since it took a year for anyone to notice the problem, it can't be affecting too many people. Let's let the patch bake awhile in HEAD, and see if we get more complaints. Per bug #18627 from Mikaël Gourlaouen. No back-patch for now. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18627-44f950eb6a8416c2@postgresql.org
2024-09-10Mark expressions nullable by grouping setsRichard Guo
When generating window_pathkeys, distinct_pathkeys, or sort_pathkeys, we failed to realize that the grouping/ordering expressions might be nullable by grouping sets. As a result, we may incorrectly deem that the PathKeys are redundant by EquivalenceClass processing and thus remove them from the pathkeys list. That would lead to wrong results in some cases. To fix this issue, we mark the grouping expressions nullable by grouping sets if that is the case. If the grouping expression is a Var or PlaceHolderVar or constructed from those, we can just add the RT index of the RTE_GROUP RTE to the existing nullingrels field(s); otherwise we have to add a PlaceHolderVar to carry on the nullingrel bit. However, we have to manually remove this nullingrel bit from expressions in various cases where these expressions are logically below the grouping step, such as when we generate groupClause pathkeys for grouping sets, or when we generate PathTarget for initial input to grouping nodes. Furthermore, in set_upper_references, the targetlist and quals of an Agg node should have nullingrels that include the effects of the grouping step, ie they will have nullingrels equal to the input Vars/PHVs' nullingrels plus the nullingrel bit that references the grouping RTE. In order to perform exact nullingrels matches, we also need to manually remove this nullingrel bit. Bump catversion because this changes the querytree produced by the parser. Thanks to Tom Lane for the idea to invent a new kind of RTE. Per reports from Geoff Winkless, Tobias Wendorff, Richard Guo from various threads. Author: Richard Guo Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Sutou Kouhei Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4_dp7e7oTwaiZeBX8+P1rXw4ThkZxh1QG81rhu9Z47VsQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-09-10Introduce an RTE for the grouping stepRichard Guo
If there are subqueries in the grouping expressions, each of these subqueries in the targetlist and HAVING clause is expanded into distinct SubPlan nodes. As a result, only one of these SubPlan nodes would be converted to reference to the grouping key column output by the Agg node; others would have to get evaluated afresh. This is not efficient, and with grouping sets this can cause wrong results issues in cases where they should go to NULL because they are from the wrong grouping set. Furthermore, during re-evaluation, these SubPlan nodes might use nulled column values from grouping sets, which is not correct. This issue is not limited to subqueries. For other types of expressions that are part of grouping items, if they are transformed into another form during preprocessing, they may fail to match lower target items. This can also lead to wrong results with grouping sets. To fix this issue, we introduce a new kind of RTE representing the output of the grouping step, with columns that are the Vars or expressions being grouped on. In the parser, we replace the grouping expressions in the targetlist and HAVING clause with Vars referencing this new RTE, so that the output of the parser directly expresses the semantic requirement that the grouping expressions be gotten from the grouping output rather than computed some other way. In the planner, we first preprocess all the columns of this new RTE and then replace any Vars in the targetlist and HAVING clause that reference this new RTE with the underlying grouping expressions, so that we will have only one instance of a SubPlan node for each subquery contained in the grouping expressions. Bump catversion because this changes the querytree produced by the parser. Thanks to Tom Lane for the idea to invent a new kind of RTE. Per reports from Geoff Winkless, Tobias Wendorff, Richard Guo from various threads. Author: Richard Guo Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Sutou Kouhei Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4_dp7e7oTwaiZeBX8+P1rXw4ThkZxh1QG81rhu9Z47VsQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-09-04Check the validity of commutators for merge/hash clausesRichard Guo
When creating merge or hash join plans in createplan.c, the merge or hash clauses may need to get commuted to ensure that the outer var is on the left and the inner var is on the right if they are not already in the expected form. This requires that their operators have commutators. Failing to find a commutator at this stage would result in 'ERROR: could not find commutator for operator xxx', with no opportunity to select an alternative plan. Typically, this is not an issue because mergejoinable or hashable operators are expected to always have valid commutators. But in some artificial cases this assumption may not hold true. Therefore, here in this patch we check the validity of commutators for clauses in the form "inner op outer" when selecting mergejoin/hash clauses, and consider a clause unusable for the current pair of outer and inner relations if it lacks a commutator. There are not (and should not be) any such operators built into Postgres that are mergejoinable or hashable but have no commutators; so we leverage the alias type 'int8alias1' created in equivclass.sql to build the test case. This is why the test case is included in equivclass.sql rather than in join.sql. Although this is arguably a bug fix, it cannot be reproduced without installing an incomplete opclass, which is unlikely to happen in practice, so no back-patch. Reported-by: Alexander Pyhalov Author: Richard Guo Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c59ec04a2fef94d9ffc35a9b17dfc081@postgrespro.ru
2024-08-21Treat number of disabled nodes in a path as a separate cost metric.Robert Haas
Previously, when a path type was disabled by e.g. enable_seqscan=false, we either avoided generating that path type in the first place, or more commonly, we added a large constant, called disable_cost, to the estimated startup cost of that path. This latter approach can distort planning. For instance, an extremely expensive non-disabled path could seem to be worse than a disabled path, especially if the full cost of that path node need not be paid (e.g. due to a Limit). Or, as in the regression test whose expected output changes with this commit, the addition of disable_cost can make two paths that would normally be distinguishible in cost seem to have fuzzily the same cost. To fix that, we now count the number of disabled path nodes and consider that a high-order component of both the startup cost and the total cost. Hence, the path list is now sorted by disabled_nodes and then by total_cost, instead of just by the latter, and likewise for the partial path list. It is important that this number is a count and not simply a Boolean; else, as soon as we're unable to respect disabled path types in all portions of the path, we stop trying to avoid them where we can. Because the path list is now sorted by the number of disabled nodes, the join prechecks must compute the count of disabled nodes during the initial cost phase instead of postponing it to final cost time. Counts of disabled nodes do not cross subquery levels; at present, there is no reason for them to do so, since the we do not postpone path selection across subquery boundaries (see make_subplan). Reviewed by Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, and David Rowley. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ_+MS+o6NeGK2xyBv-xM+w1AfFVuHE4f_aq6ekHv7YSQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-30Fix partitionwise join with partially-redundant join clausesRichard Guo
To determine if the two relations being joined can use partitionwise join, we need to verify the existence of equi-join conditions involving pairs of matching partition keys for all partition keys. Currently we do that by looking through the join's restriction clauses. However, it has been discovered that this approach is insufficient, because there might be partition keys known equal by a specific EC, but they do not form a join clause because it happens that other members of the EC than the partition keys are constrained to become a join clause. To address this issue, in addition to examining the join's restriction clauses, we also check if any partition keys are known equal by ECs, by leveraging function exprs_known_equal(). To accomplish this, we enhance exprs_known_equal() to check equality per the semantics of the opfamily, if provided. It could be argued that exprs_known_equal() could be called O(N^2) times, where N is the number of partition key expressions, resulting in noticeable performance costs if there are a lot of partition key expressions. But I think this is not a problem. The number of a joinrel's partition key expressions would only be equal to the join degree, since each base relation within the join contributes only one partition key expression. That is to say, it does not scale with the number of partitions. A benchmark with a query involving 5-way joins of partitioned tables, each with 3 partition keys and 1000 partitions, shows that the planning time is not significantly affected by this patch (within the margin of error), particularly when compared to the impact caused by partitionwise join. Thanks to Tom Lane for the idea of leveraging exprs_known_equal() to check if partition keys are known equal by ECs. Author: Richard Guo, Tom Lane Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Ashutosh Bapat, Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN_9JTzo_2F5dKLqXVtDX5V6dwqB0Xk+ihstpKEt3a1LT6X78A@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-30Refactor the checks for parameterized partial pathsRichard Guo
Parameterized partial paths are not supported, and we have several checks in try_partial_xxx_path functions to enforce this. For a partial nestloop join path, we need to ensure that if the inner path is parameterized, the parameterization is fully satisfied by the proposed outer path. For a partial merge/hashjoin join path, we need to ensure that the inner path is not parameterized. In all cases, we need to ensure that the outer path is not parameterized. However, the comment in try_partial_hashjoin_path does not describe this correctly. This patch fixes that. In addtion, this patch simplifies the checks peformed in try_partial_hashjoin_path and try_partial_mergejoin_path with the help of macro PATH_REQ_OUTER, and also adds asserts that the outer path is not parameterized in try_partial_xxx_path functions. Author: Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48mKJ6g_GnYNa7dnw04MHaMK-jnAEBrMVhTp2uUg3Ut4A@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-30Short-circuit sort_inner_and_outer if there are no mergejoin clausesRichard Guo
In sort_inner_and_outer, we create mergejoin join paths by explicitly sorting both relations on each possible ordering of the available mergejoin clauses. However, if there are no available mergejoin clauses, we can skip this process entirely. This patch introduces a check for mergeclause_list at the beginning of sort_inner_and_outer and exits the function if it is found to be empty. This might help skip all the statements that come before the call to select_outer_pathkeys_for_merge, including the build of UniquePaths in the case of JOIN_UNIQUE_OUTER or JOIN_UNIQUE_INNER. I doubt there's any measurable performance improvement, but throughout the run of the regression tests, sort_inner_and_outer is called a total of 44,424 times. Among these calls, there are 11,064 instances where mergeclause_list is found to be empty, which accounts for approximately one-fourth. I think this suggests that implementing this shortcut is worthwhile. Author: Richard Guo Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48RKiZGFEd5A0JtztRY5ZdvVvNiHh0AKeuoz21F+0dVjQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-29Reduce memory used by partitionwise joinsRichard Guo
In try_partitionwise_join, we aim to break down the join between two partitioned relations into joins between matching partitions. To achieve this, we iterate through each pair of partitions from the two joining relations and create child-join relations for them. With potentially thousands of partitions, the local objects allocated in each iteration can accumulate significant memory usage. Therefore, we opt to eagerly free these local objects at the end of each iteration. In line with this approach, this patch frees the bitmap set that represents the relids of child-join relations at the end of each iteration. Additionally, it modifies build_child_join_rel() to reuse the AppendRelInfo structures generated within each iteration. Author: Ashutosh Bapat Reviewed-by: David Christensen, Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5s4EqY43oB=ne6B2=-xLgrs9ZGeTr1NXwkGFt2j-OmaQQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-23Fix rowcount estimate for gather (merge) pathsRichard Guo
In the case of a parallel plan, when computing the number of tuples processed per worker, we divide the total number of tuples by the parallel_divisor obtained from get_parallel_divisor(), which accounts for the leader's contribution in addition to the number of workers. Accordingly, when estimating the number of tuples for gather (merge) nodes, we should multiply the number of tuples per worker by the same parallel_divisor to reverse the division. However, currently we use parallel_workers rather than parallel_divisor for the multiplication. This could result in an underestimation of the number of tuples for gather (merge) nodes, especially when there are fewer than four workers. This patch fixes this issue by using the same parallel_divisor for the multiplication. There is one ensuing plan change in the regression tests, but it looks reasonable and does not compromise its original purpose of testing parallel-aware hash join. In passing, this patch removes an unnecessary assignment for path.rows in create_gather_merge_path, and fixes an uninitialized-variable issue in generate_useful_gather_paths. No backpatch as this could result in plan changes. Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih, Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO6_Xqr9+51NxgO=XospEkUeAg-p=EjAWmtpdcZwjRgGKJ53iA@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-22Remove grotty use of disable_cost for TID scan plans.Robert Haas
Previously, the code charged disable_cost for CurrentOfExpr, and then subtracted disable_cost from the cost of a TID path that used CurrentOfExpr as the TID qual, effectively disabling all paths except that one. Now, we instead suppress generation of the disabled paths entirely, and generate only the one that the executor will actually understand. With this approach, we do not need to rely on disable_cost being large enough to prevent the wrong path from being chosen, and we save some CPU cycle by avoiding generating paths that we can't actually use. In my opinion, the code is also easier to understand like this. Patch by me. Review by Heikki Linnakangas. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/591b3596-2ea0-4b8e-99c6-fad0ef2801f5@iki.fi
2024-07-15Check lateral references within PHVs for memoize cache keysRichard Guo
If we intend to generate a Memoize node on top of a path, we need cache keys of some sort. Currently we search for the cache keys in the parameterized clauses of the path as well as the lateral_vars of its parent. However, it turns out that this is not sufficient because there might be lateral references derived from PlaceHolderVars, which we fail to take into consideration. This oversight can cause us to miss opportunities to utilize the Memoize node. Moreover, in some plans, failing to recognize all the cache keys could result in performance regressions. This is because without identifying all the cache keys, we would need to purge the entire cache every time we get a new outer tuple during execution. This patch fixes this issue by extracting lateral Vars from within PlaceHolderVars and subsequently including them in the cache keys. In passing, this patch also includes a comment clarifying that Memoize nodes are currently not added on top of join relation paths. This explains why this patch only considers PlaceHolderVars that are due to be evaluated at baserels. Author: Richard Guo Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, David Rowley, Andrei Lepikhov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48jLxn0pAPZpJ50EThZ569Xrw+=4Ac3QvkpQvNszbeoNg@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-12Consider materializing the cheapest inner path in parallel nestloopRichard Guo
When generating non-parallel nestloop paths for each available outer path, we always consider materializing the cheapest inner path if feasible. Similarly, in this patch, we also consider materializing the cheapest inner path when building partial nestloop paths. This approach potentially reduces the need to rescan the inner side of a partial nestloop path for each outer tuple. Author: Tender Wang Reviewed-by: Richard Guo, Robert Haas, David Rowley, Alena Rybakina Reviewed-by: Tomasz Rybak, Paul Jungwirth, Yuki Fujii Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHewXNkPmtEXNfVQMou_7NqQmFABca9f4etjBtdbbm0ZKDmWvw@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-05Support "Right Semi Join" plan shapesRichard Guo
Hash joins can support semijoin with the LHS input on the right, using the existing logic for inner join, combined with the assurance that only the first match for each inner tuple is considered, which can be achieved by leveraging the HEAP_TUPLE_HAS_MATCH flag. This can be very useful in some cases since we may now have the option to hash the smaller table instead of the larger. Merge join could likely support "Right Semi Join" too. However, the benefit of swapping inputs tends to be small here, so we do not address that in this patch. Note that this patch also modifies a test query in join.sql to ensure it continues testing as intended. With this patch the original query would result in a right-semi-join rather than semi-join, compromising its original purpose of testing the fix for neqjoinsel's behavior for semi-joins. Author: Richard Guo Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu, Alena Rybakina, Japin Li Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4_X1mN=ic+SxcyymUqFx9bB8pqSLTGJ-F=MHy4PW3eRXw@mail.gmail.com
2024-06-12Harmonize function parameter names for Postgres 17.Peter Geoghegan
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the corresponding names from function definitions in a few places. These inconsistencies were all introduced during Postgres 17 development. pg_bsd_indent still has a couple of similar inconsistencies, which I (pgeoghegan) have left untouched for now. This commit was written with help from clang-tidy, by mechanically applying the same rules as similar clean-up commits (the earliest such commit was commit 035ce1fe).
2024-06-06Restore preprocess_groupclause()Alexander Korotkov
0452b461bc made optimizer explore alternative orderings of group-by pathkeys. It eliminated preprocess_groupclause(), which was intended to match items between GROUP BY and ORDER BY. Instead, get_useful_group_keys_orderings() function generates orderings of GROUP BY elements at the time of grouping paths generation. The get_useful_group_keys_orderings() function takes into account 3 orderings of GROUP BY pathkeys and clauses: original order as written in GROUP BY, matching ORDER BY clauses as much as possible, and matching the input path as much as possible. Given that even before 0452b461b, preprocess_groupclause() could change the original order of GROUP BY clauses we don't need to consider it apart from ordering matching ORDER BY clauses. This commit restores preprocess_groupclause() to provide an ordering of GROUP BY elements matching ORDER BY before generation of paths. The new version of preprocess_groupclause() takes into account an incremental sort. The get_useful_group_keys_orderings() function now takes into 2 orderings of GROUP BY elements: the order generated preprocess_groupclause() and the order matching the input path as much as possible. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdvyWLMGwvxaf%3D7KAp-z-4mxbSH8ti2f6mNOQv5metZFzg%40mail.gmail.com Author: Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov, Pavel Borisov
2024-06-06Rename PathKeyInfo to GroupByOrderingAlexander Korotkov
0452b461bc made optimizer explore alternative orderings of group-by pathkeys. The PathKeyInfo data structure was used to store the particular ordering of group-by pathkeys and corresponding clauses. It turns out that PathKeyInfo is not the best name for that purpose. This commit renames this data structure to GroupByOrdering, and revises its comment. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db0fc3a4-966c-4cec-a136-94024d39212d%40postgrespro.ru Reported-by: Tom Lane Author: Andrei Lepikhov Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Borisov
2024-06-06Add invariants check to get_useful_group_keys_orderings()Alexander Korotkov
This commit introduces invariants checking of generated orderings in get_useful_group_keys_orderings() for assert-enabled builds. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a663f0f6-cbf6-49aa-af2e-234dc6768a07%40postgrespro.ru Reported-by: Tom Lane Author: Andrei Lepikhov Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Borisov
2024-06-06Fix asymmetry in setting EquivalenceClass.ec_sortrefAlexander Korotkov
0452b461bc made get_eclass_for_sort_expr() always set EquivalenceClass.ec_sortref if it's not done yet. This leads to an asymmetric situation when whoever first looks for the EquivalenceClass sets the ec_sortref. It is also counterintuitive that get_eclass_for_sort_expr() performs modification of data structures. This commit makes make_pathkeys_for_sortclauses_extended() responsible for setting EquivalenceClass.ec_sortref. Now we set the EquivalenceClass.ec_sortref's needed to explore alternative GROUP BY ordering specifically during building pathkeys by the list of grouping clauses. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17037754-f187-4138-8285-0e2bfebd0dea%40postgrespro.ru Reported-by: Tom Lane Author: Andrei Lepikhov Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Borisov
2024-05-21Re-allow planner to use Merge Append to efficiently implement UNION.Robert Haas
This reverts commit 7204f35919b7e021e8d1bc9f2d76fd6bfcdd2070, thus restoring 66c0185a3 (Allow planner to use Merge Append to efficiently implement UNION) as well as the follow-on commits d5d2205c8, 3b1a7eb28, 7487044d6. Per further discussion on pgsql-release, we wish to ship beta1 with this feature, and patch the bug that was found just before wrap, rather than shipping beta1 with the feature reverted.
2024-05-20Revert commit 66c0185a3 and follow-on patches.Tom Lane
This reverts 66c0185a3 (Allow planner to use Merge Append to efficiently implement UNION) as well as the follow-on commits d5d2205c8, 3b1a7eb28, 7487044d6. In addition to those, 07746a8ef had to be removed then re-applied in a different place, because 66c0185a3 moved the relevant code. The reason for this last-minute thrashing is that depesz found a case in which the patched code creates a completely wrong plan that silently gives incorrect query results. It's unclear what the cause is or how many cases are affected, but with beta1 wrap staring us in the face, there's no time for closer investigation. After we figure that out, we can decide whether to un-revert this for beta2 or hold it for v18. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Zktzf926vslR35Fv@depesz.com (also some private discussion among pgsql-release)
2024-05-07Prevent RLS filters on ctid from breaking WHERE CURRENT OF <cursor>.Tom Lane
The executor only supports CurrentOfExpr as the sole tidqual of a TidScan plan node. tidpath.c failed to take any particular care about that, but would just take the first ctid equality qual it could find in the target relation's baserestrictinfo list. Originally that was fine because the grammar prevents any other WHERE conditions from being combined with CURRENT OF <cursor>. However, if the relation has RLS visibility policies then those would get included in the list. Should such a policy include a condition on ctid, we'd typically grab the wrong qual and produce a malfunctioning plan. To fix, introduce a simplistic priority ordering scheme for which ctid equality qual to prefer. Real-world cases involving more than one such qual are so rare that it doesn't seem worth going to any great trouble to choose one over another, so I didn't work very hard; but this code could be extended in future if someone thinks differently. It's extremely difficult to think of a reasonable use-case for an RLS restriction involving ctid, and certainly we've heard no field reports of this failure. So this doesn't seem worthy of back-patching, but in the name of cleanliness let's fix it going forward. Patch by me, per report from Robert Haas. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3914881.1715038270@sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-05-06Revert: Remove useless self-joinsAlexander Korotkov
This commit reverts d3d55ce5713 and subsequent fixes 2b26a694554, 93c85db3b5b, b44a1708abe, b7f315c9d7d, 8a8ed916f73, b5fb6736ed3, 0a93f803f45, e0477837ce4, a7928a57b9f, 5ef34a8fc38, 30b4955a466, 8c441c08279, 028b15405b4, fe093994db4, 489072ab7a9, and 466979ef031. We are quite late in the release cycle and new bugs continue to appear. Even though we have fixes for all known bugs, there is a risk of throwing many bugs to end users. The plan for self-join elimination would be to do more review and testing, then re-commit in the early v18 cycle. Reported-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2422119.1714691974%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-05-05Fix query pullup issue with WindowClause runConditionDavid Rowley
94985c210 added code to detect when WindowFuncs were monotonic and allowed additional quals to be "pushed down" into the subquery to be used as WindowClause runConditions in order to short-circuit execution in nodeWindowAgg.c. The Node representation of runConditions wasn't well selected and because we do qual pushdown before planning the subquery, the planning of the subquery could perform subquery pull-up of nested subqueries. For WindowFuncs with args, the arguments could be changed after pushing the qual down to the subquery. This was made more difficult by the fact that the code duplicated the WindowFunc inside an OpExpr to include in the WindowClauses runCondition field. This could result in duplication of subqueries and a pull-up of such a subquery could result in another initplan parameter being issued for the 2nd version of the subplan. This could result in errors such as: ERROR: WindowFunc not found in subplan target lists To fix this, we change the node representation of these run conditions and instead of storing an OpExpr containing the WindowFunc in a list inside WindowClause, we now store a new node type named WindowFuncRunCondition within a new field in the WindowFunc. These get transformed into OpExprs later in planning once subquery pull-up has been performed. This problem did exist in v15 and v16, but that was fixed by 9d36b883b and e5d20bbd. Cat version bump due to new node type and modifying WindowFunc struct. Bug: #18305 Reported-by: Zuming Jiang Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18305-33c49b4c830b37b3%40postgresql.org
2024-04-18Fix typos and duplicate wordsDaniel Gustafsson
This fixes various typos, duplicated words, and tiny bits of whitespace mainly in code comments but also in docs. Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Author: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Author: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3F577953-A29E-4722-98AD-2DA9EFF2CBB8@yesql.se
2024-04-16Ensure generated join clauses for child rels have correct relids.Tom Lane
When building a join clause derived from an EquivalenceClass, if the clause is to be used with an appendrel child relation then make sure its clause_relids include the relids of that child relation. Normally this would be true already because the EquivalenceMember would be a Var of that relation. However, if the appendrel represents a flattened UNION ALL construct then some child EquivalenceMembers could be constants with no relids. The resulting under-marked clause is problematic because it could mislead join_clause_is_movable_into about where the clause should be evaluated. We do not have an example showing incorrect plan generation, but there are existing cases in the regression tests that will fail the Asserts this patch adds to get_baserel_parampathinfo. A similarly wrong conclusion about a clause being considered by get_joinrel_parampathinfo would lead to wrong placement of the clause. (This also squares with the way that clause_relids is calculated for non-equijoin clauses in adjust_appendrel_attrs.) The other reason for wanting these new Asserts is that the previous blithe assumption that the results of generate_join_implied_equalities "necessarily satisfy join_clause_is_movable_into" turns out to be wrong pre-v16. If it's still wrong it'd be good to find out. Per bug #18429 from Benoît Ryder. The bug as filed was fixed by commit 2489d76c4, but these changes correlate with the fix we will need to apply in pre-v16 branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18429-8982d4a348cc86c6@postgresql.org
2024-04-06Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.Peter Geoghegan
Commit 9e8da0f7 taught nbtree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively. This works by pushing down the full context (the array keys) to the nbtree index AM, enabling it to execute multiple primitive index scans that the planner treats as one continuous index scan/index path. This earlier enhancement enabled nbtree ScalarArrayOp index-only scans. It also allowed scans with ScalarArrayOp quals to return ordered results (with some notable restrictions, described further down). Take this general approach a lot further: teach nbtree SAOP index scans to decide how to execute ScalarArrayOp scans (when and where to start the next primitive index scan) based on physical index characteristics. This can be far more efficient. All SAOP scans will now reliably avoid duplicative leaf page accesses (just like any other nbtree index scan). SAOP scans whose array keys are naturally clustered together now require far fewer index descents, since we'll reliably avoid starting a new primitive scan just to get to a later offset from the same leaf page. The scan's arrays now advance using binary searches for the array element that best matches the next tuple's attribute value. Required scan key arrays (i.e. arrays from scan keys that can terminate the scan) ratchet forward in lockstep with the index scan. Non-required arrays (i.e. arrays from scan keys that can only exclude non-matching tuples) "advance" without the process ever rolling over to a higher-order array. Naturally, only required SAOP scan keys trigger skipping over leaf pages (non-required arrays cannot safely end or start primitive index scans). Consequently, even index scans of a composite index with a high-order inequality scan key (which we'll mark required) and a low-order SAOP scan key (which we won't mark required) now avoid repeating leaf page accesses -- that benefit isn't limited to simpler equality-only cases. In general, all nbtree index scans now output tuples as if they were one continuous index scan -- even scans that mix a high-order inequality with lower-order SAOP equalities reliably output tuples in index order. This allows us to remove a couple of special cases that were applied when building index paths with SAOP clauses during planning. Bugfix commit 807a40c5 taught the planner to avoid generating unsafe path keys: path keys on a multicolumn index path, with a SAOP clause on any attribute beyond the first/most significant attribute. These cases are now all safe, so we go back to generating path keys without regard for the presence of SAOP clauses (just like with any other clause type). Affected queries can now exploit scan output order in all the usual ways (e.g., certain "ORDER BY ... LIMIT n" queries can now terminate early). Also undo changes from follow-up bugfix commit a4523c5a, which taught the planner to produce alternative index paths, with path keys, but without low-order SAOP index quals (filter quals were used instead). We'll no longer generate these alternative paths, since they can no longer offer any meaningful advantages over standard index qual paths. Affected queries thereby avoid all of the disadvantages that come from using filter quals within index scan nodes. They can avoid extra heap page accesses from using filter quals to exclude non-matching tuples (index quals will never have that problem). They can also skip over irrelevant sections of the index in more cases (though only when nbtree determines that starting another primitive scan actually makes sense). There is a theoretical risk that removing restrictions on SAOP index paths from the planner will break compatibility with amcanorder-based index AMs maintained as extensions. Such an index AM could have the same limitations around ordered SAOP scans as nbtree had up until now. Adding a pro forma incompatibility item about the issue to the Postgres 17 release notes seems like a good idea. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=ksvN_sjcnD1+Bt-WtifRA5ok48aDYnq3pkKhxgMQpcw@mail.gmail.com
2024-04-02Fix assert failure when planning setop subqueries with CTEsDavid Rowley
66c0185a3 adjusted the UNION planner to request that union child queries produce Paths correctly ordered to implement the UNION by way of MergeAppend followed by Unique. The code there made a bad assumption that if the root->parent_root->parse had setOperations set that the query must be the child subquery of a set operation. That's not true when it comes to planning a non-inlined CTE which is parented by a set operation. This causes issues as the CTE's targetlist has no requirement to match up to the SetOperationStmt's groupClauses Fix this by adding a new parameter to both subquery_planner() and grouping_planner() to explicitly pass the SetOperationStmt only when planning set operation child subqueries. Thank you to Tom Lane for helping to rationalize the decision on the best function signature for subquery_planner(). Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/242fc7c6-a8aa-2daf-ac4c-0a231e2619c1@gmail.com
2024-03-28Update comment in set_dummy_rel_pathlist().Tom Lane
This comment claimed that set_dummy_rel_pathlist() has callers other than (possibly indirectly) set_rel_size(). It doesn't, so revise the argument to not rely on that. Noted by Richard Guo. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-KFEU_fDuJPNCOkUu3rwvZvKBEytkd9VrM4kH4-2h1CQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-26Remove some redundant set_cheapest() calls.Tom Lane
Commit e2fa76d80 centralized the responsibility for doing set_cheapest() for a baserel, but these functions added later seemingly didn't get the memo. There's no apparent reason why we need the cheapest path for these relation types to be available any sooner than it is for other base relation types, so delete the duplicate calls. Doesn't save much since there's only one path in these cases, but it might improve clarity. Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-KFEU_fDuJPNCOkUu3rwvZvKBEytkd9VrM4kH4-2h1CQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-26Propagate pathkeys from CTEs up to the outer query.Tom Lane
If we know the sort order of a CTE's output, and it is relevant to the outer query, label the CTE's outer-query access path using those pathkeys. This may enable optimizations such as avoiding a sort in the outer query. The code for hoisting pathkeys into the outer query already exists for regular RTE_SUBQUERY subqueries, but it wasn't getting used for CTEs, possibly out of concern for maintaining an optimization fence between the CTE and the outer query. However, on the same arguments used for commit f7816aec2, there seems no harm in letting the outer query know what the inner query decided to do. In support of this, we now remember the best Path as well as Plan for each subquery for the rest of the planner run. There may be future applications for having that at hand, and it surely costs little to build one more List. Richard Guo (minor mods by me) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49xYd3f8CrE8-WW3--dV1zH_sDSDn-vs2DzHj81Wcnsew@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-25Code review for 6190d828cd2Amit Langote
* Fix the comment of init_dummy_sjinfo() to remove references to non-existing parameters 'rel1' and 'rel2'. * Adjust consider_new_or_clause() to call init_dummy_sjinfo() to make up a SpecialJoinInfo for inner joins like other code sites that were adjusted in 6190d828cd2 to do so. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reported-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5tHqEf3ASVqvFFcghYGPfpy7o3xnvhHwBGbJFMRH8KjNw@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-25Do not translate dummy SpecialJoinInfos for child joinsAmit Langote
This teaches build_child_join_sjinfo() to create the dummy SpecialJoinInfos (those created for inner joins) directly for a given child join, skipping the unnecessary overhead of translating the parent joinrel's SpecialJoinInfo. To that end, this commit moves the code to initialize the dummy SpecialJoinInfos to a new function named init_dummy_sjinfo() and changes the few existing sites that have this code and build_child_join_sjinfo() to call this new function. Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5tHqEf3ASVqvFFcghYGPfpy7o3xnvhHwBGbJFMRH8KjNw@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-25Reduce memory used by partitionwise joinsAmit Langote
Specifically, this commit reduces the memory consumed by the SpecialJoinInfos that are allocated for child joins in try_partitionwise_join() by freeing them at the end of creating paths for each child join. A SpecialJoinInfo allocated for a given child join is a copy of the parent join's SpecialJoinInfo, which contains the translated copies of the various Relids bitmapsets and semi_rhs_exprs, which is a List of Nodes. The newly added freeing step frees the struct itself and the various bitmapsets, but not semi_rhs_exprs, because there's no handy function to free the memory of Node trees. Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5tHqEf3ASVqvFFcghYGPfpy7o3xnvhHwBGbJFMRH8KjNw@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-25Allow planner to use Merge Append to efficiently implement UNIONDavid Rowley
Until now, UNION queries have often been suboptimal as the planner has only ever considered using an Append node and making the results unique by either using a Hash Aggregate, or by Sorting the entire Append result and running it through the Unique operator. Both of these methods always require reading all rows from the union subqueries. Here we adjust the union planner so that it can request that each subquery produce results in target list order so that these can be Merge Appended together and made unique with a Unique node. This can improve performance significantly as the union child can make use of the likes of btree indexes and/or Merge Joins to provide the top-level UNION with presorted input. This is especially good if the top-level UNION contains a LIMIT node that limits the output rows to a small subset of the unioned rows as cheap startup plans can be used. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Richard Guo, Andy Fan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpb_63XQodmxKUF8vb9M7CxyUyT4sWvEgqeQU-GB7QFoQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-21Add SQL/JSON query functionsAmit Langote
This introduces the following SQL/JSON functions for querying JSON data using jsonpath expressions: JSON_EXISTS(), which can be used to apply a jsonpath expression to a JSON value to check if it yields any values. JSON_QUERY(), which can be used to to apply a jsonpath expression to a JSON value to get a JSON object, an array, or a string. There are various options to control whether multi-value result uses array wrappers and whether the singleton scalar strings are quoted or not. JSON_VALUE(), which can be used to apply a jsonpath expression to a JSON value to return a single scalar value, producing an error if it multiple values are matched. Both JSON_VALUE() and JSON_QUERY() functions have options for handling EMPTY and ERROR conditions, which can be used to specify the behavior when no values are matched and when an error occurs during jsonpath evaluation, respectively. Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Author: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewers have included (in no particular order): Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera, Jian He, Anton A. Melnikov, Nikita Malakhov, Peter Eisentraut, Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHROpf9e644D8BRqYvaAPmgBZVup-xKMDPk-nd4EpgzHw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-19Postpone reparameterization of paths until create_plan().Tom Lane
When considering nestloop paths for individual partitions within a partitionwise join, if the inner path is parameterized, it is parameterized by the topmost parent of the outer rel, not the corresponding outer rel itself. Therefore, we need to translate the parameterization so that the inner path is parameterized by the corresponding outer rel. Up to now, we did this while generating join paths. However, that's problematic because we must also translate some expressions that are shared across all paths for a relation, such as restriction clauses (kept in the RelOptInfo and/or IndexOptInfo) and TableSampleClauses (kept in the RangeTblEntry). The existing code fails to translate these at all, leading to wrong answers, odd failures such as "variable not found in subplan target list", or executor crashes. But we can't modify them during path generation, because that would break things if we end up choosing some non-partitioned-join path. So this patch postpones reparameterization of the inner path until createplan.c, where it is safe to modify the referenced RangeTblEntry, RelOptInfo or IndexOptInfo, because we have made a final choice of which Path to use. We do still have to check during path generation that the reparameterization will be possible. So we introduce a new function path_is_reparameterizable_by_child() to detect that. The duplication between path_is_reparameterizable_by_child() and reparameterize_path_by_child() is a bit annoying, but there seems no other good answer. A small benefit is that we can avoid building useless reparameterized trees in cases where a non-partitioned join is ultimately chosen. Also, reparameterize_path_by_child() can now be allowed to scribble on the input paths, saving a few cycles. This fix repairs the same problems previously addressed in the back branches by commits 62f120203 et al. Richard Guo, reviewed at various times by Ashutosh Bapat, Andrei Lepikhov, Alena Rybakina, Robert Haas, and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs496+N=UAjOc=rcD3P7B6oJe4rZw08e_TZRUsWbPxZW3Tw@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-04Remove unused #include's from backend .c filesPeter Eisentraut
as determined by include-what-you-use (IWYU) While IWYU also suggests to *add* a bunch of #include's (which is its main purpose), this patch does not do that. In some cases, a more specific #include replaces another less specific one. Some manual adjustments of the automatic result: - IWYU currently doesn't know about includes that provide global variable declarations (like -Wmissing-variable-declarations), so those includes are being kept manually. - All includes for port(ability) headers are being kept for now, to play it safe. - No changes of catalog/pg_foo.h to catalog/pg_foo_d.h, to keep the patch from exploding in size. Note that this patch touches just *.c files, so nothing declared in header files changes in hidden ways. As a small example, in src/backend/access/transam/rmgr.c, some IWYU pragma annotations are added to handle a special case there. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/af837490-6b2f-46df-ba05-37ea6a6653fc%40eisentraut.org
2024-02-15Simplify PathKey checking codeDavid Rowley
pathkeys_useful_for_ordering() contained some needless checks to return 0 when either root->query_pathkeys or pathkeys lists were empty. This is already handled by pathkeys_count_contained_in(), so let's have it do the work instead of having redundant checks. Similarly, in pathkeys_useful_for_grouping(), checking pathkeys is an empty list just before looping over it isn't required. Technically, neither is the list empty check for group_pathkeys, but I felt a bit more work would have to be done to get the equivalent behavior if we'd left it up to the foreach loop to call list_member_ptr(). This was noticed by Andy while he was reviewing a patch to improve the UNION planner. Since that patch adds another function similar to pathkeys_useful_for_ordering() and since I wasn't planning to copy these redundant checks over to the new function, let's adjust the existing code so that both functions will be consistent. Author: Andy Fan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87o7cti48f.fsf@163.com
2024-02-09Fix usage of aggregate pathkeys in group_keys_reorder_by_pathkeys()Alexander Korotkov
group_keys_reorder_by_pathkeys() function searched for matching pathkeys within root->group_pathkeys. That could lead to picking an aggregate pathkey and using its pathkey->pk_eclass->ec_sortref as an argument of get_sortgroupref_clause_noerr(). Given that ec_sortref of an aggregate pathkey references aggregate targetlist not query targetlist, this leads to incorrect query optimization. Fix this by looking for matching pathkeys only within the first num_groupby_pathkeys pathkeys. Reported-by: David G. Johnston Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwY3Ek%3DcLThgd8FdaSc5JRDVt0FaV00gMcWra%2BTAR4gGUw%40mail.gmail.com Author: Andrei Lepikhov, Alexander Korotkov
2024-02-07Adjust reltarget assignment for UPPERREL_PARTIAL_DISTINCT relDavid Rowley
A comment in grouping_planner() claimed that the PlannerInfo upper_targets array was not used in core code. However, the code that generated the paths for the UPPERREL_PARTIAL_DISTINCT rel made that comment untrue. Here we adjust the create_distinct_paths() function signature to pass down the PathTarget the same as is done for create_grouping_paths(), thus making the aforementioned comment true again. In passing adjust the order of the upper_targets[] assignments. These seem to be following the reverse enum order apart from UPPERREL_PARTIAL_DISTINCT. Also, update the header comment for generate_gather_paths() to mention the function is also used to create gather paths for partial distinct paths. Author: Richard Guo, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48u9VoVOouJsys1qOaC9WVGVmBa+wT1dx8KvxF5GPzezA@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-26De-dupicate Memoize cache keysDavid Rowley
It was possible when determining the cache keys for a Memoize path that if the same expr appeared twice in the parameterized path's ppi_clauses and/or in the Nested Loop's inner relation's lateral_vars.  If this happened the Memoize node's cache keys would contain duplicates.  This isn't a problem for correctness, all it means is that the cache lookups will be suboptimal due to having redundant work to do on every hash table lookup and insert. Here we adjust paraminfo_get_equal_hashops() to look for duplicates and ignore them when we find them. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/422277.1706207562%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-01-22Re-disallow Memoize for parameterized nested loops with join filtersDavid Rowley
This was previously fixed in 9e215378d but got broken again as a result of 2489d76c4. It seems that commit causes ppi_clauses to contain duplicate clauses and it's no longer safe to check the list_length of that list to determine if there are join conditions other than what's mentioned in ppi_clauses. Here we adjust the check to count the distinct rinfo_serial mentioned in ppi_clauses. We expect that extra->restrictlist won't have duplicate rinfo_serials. Reported-by: Amadeo Gallardo Author: Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADFREbW-BLJd7-a5J%2B5wjVumeFG1ByXiSOFzMtkmY_SDWckTxw%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 16, where 2489d76c4 was introduced.
2024-01-21Explore alternative orderings of group-by pathkeys during optimization.Alexander Korotkov
When evaluating a query with a multi-column GROUP BY clause, we can minimize sort operations or avoid them if we synchronize the order of GROUP BY clauses with the ORDER BY sort clause or sort order, which comes from the underlying query tree. Grouping does not imply any ordering, so we can compare the keys in arbitrary order, and a Hash Agg leverages this. But for Group Agg, we simply compared keys in the order specified in the query. This commit explores alternative ordering of the keys, trying to find a cheaper one. The ordering of group keys may interact with other parts of the query, some of which may not be known while planning the grouping. For example, there may be an explicit ORDER BY clause or some other ordering-dependent operation higher up in the query, and using the same ordering may allow using either incremental sort or even eliminating the sort entirely. The patch always keeps the ordering specified in the query, assuming the user might have additional insights. This introduces a new GUC enable_group_by_reordering so that the optimization may be disabled if needed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7c79e6a5-8597-74e8-0671-1c39d124c9d6%40sigaev.ru Author: Andrei Lepikhov, Teodor Sigaev Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Claudio Freire, Gavin Flower, Dmitry Dolgov Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Pavel Borisov, David Rowley, Zhihong Yu Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alexander Korotkov, Richard Guo, Alena Rybakina
2024-01-10Fix Asserts in calc_non_nestloop_required_outer().Tom Lane
These were not testing the same thing as the comparable Assert in calc_nestloop_required_outer(), because we neglected to map the given Paths' relids to top-level relids. When considering a partition child join the latter is the correct thing to do. This oversight is old, but since it's only an overly-weak Assert check there doesn't seem to be much value in back-patching. Richard Guo (with cosmetic changes and comment updates by me) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49sqbe9GBZ8sy8dSfKRNURgicR85HX8vgzcgQsPF0XY1w@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-04Teach estimate_array_length() to use statistics where available.Tom Lane
If we have DECHIST statistics about the argument expression, use the average number of distinct elements as the array length estimate. (It'd be better to use the average total number of elements, but that is not currently calculated by compute_array_stats(), and it's unclear that it'd be worth extra effort to get.) To do this, we have to change the signature of estimate_array_length to pass the "root" pointer. While at it, also change its result type to "double". That's probably not really necessary, but it avoids any risk of overflow of the value extracted from DECHIST. All existing callers are going to use the result in a "double" calculation anyway. Paul Jungwirth, reviewed by Jian He and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+renyUnM2d+SmrxKpDuAdpiq6FOM=FByvi6aS6yi__qyf6j9A@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-03Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian
Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 12
2023-12-19Prevent integer overflow when forming tuple width estimates.Tom Lane
It's at least theoretically possible to overflow int32 when adding up column width estimates to make a row width estimate. (The bug example isn't terribly convincing as a real use-case, but perhaps wide joins would provide a more plausible route to trouble.) This'd lead to assertion failures or silly planner behavior. To forestall it, make the relevant functions compute their running sums in int64 arithmetic and then clamp to int32 range at the end. We can reasonably assume that MaxAllocSize is a hard limit on actual tuple width, so clamping to that is simply a correction for dubious input values, and there's no need to go as far as widening width variables to int64 everywhere. Per bug #18247 from RekGRpth. There've been no reports of this issue arising in practical cases, so I feel no need to back-patch. Richard Guo and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18247-11ac477f02954422@postgresql.org
2023-12-18compute_bitmap_pages' loop_count parameter should be double not int.Tom Lane
The value was double in the original implementation of this logic. Commit da08a6598 pulled it out into a subroutine, but carelessly declared the parameter as int when it should have been double. On most platforms, the only ill effect would be to clamp the value to be not more than INT_MAX, which would seldom be exceeded and probably wouldn't change the estimates too much anyway. Nonetheless, it's wrong and can cause complaints from ubsan. While here, improve the comments and parameter names. This is an ABI change in a globally exposed subroutine, so back-patching would create some risk of breaking extensions. The value of the fix doesn't seem high enough to warrant taking that risk, so fix in HEAD only. Per report from Alexander Lakhin. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f5e15fe1-202d-1936-f47c-f0c69a936b72@gmail.com