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2010-02-26pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian
2010-02-19Reduce the rescan cost estimate for Materialize nodes to cpu_operator_cost perTom Lane
tuple, instead of the former cpu_tuple_cost. It is sane to charge less than cpu_tuple_cost because Materialize never does any qual-checking or projection, so it's got less overhead than most plan node types. In particular, we want to have the same charge here as is charged for readout in cost_sort. That avoids the problem recently exhibited by Teodor wherein the planner prefers a useless sort over a materialize step in a context where a lot of rescanning will happen. The rescan costs should be just about the same for both node types, so make their estimates the same. Not back-patching because all of the current logic for rescan cost estimates is new in 9.0. The old handling of rescans is sufficiently not-sane that changing this in that structure is a bit pointless, and might indeed cause regressions.
2010-02-14Wrap calls to SearchSysCache and related functions using macros.Robert Haas
The purpose of this change is to eliminate the need for every caller of SearchSysCache, SearchSysCacheCopy, SearchSysCacheExists, GetSysCacheOid, and SearchSysCacheList to know the maximum number of allowable keys for a syscache entry (currently 4). This will make it far easier to increase the maximum number of keys in a future release should we choose to do so, and it makes the code shorter, too. Design and review by Tom Lane.
2010-02-12Extend the set of frame options supported for window functions.Tom Lane
This patch allows the frame to start from CURRENT ROW (in either RANGE or ROWS mode), and it also adds support for ROWS n PRECEDING and ROWS n FOLLOWING start and end points. (RANGE value PRECEDING/FOLLOWING isn't there yet --- the grammar works, but that's all.) Hitoshi Harada, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2010-02-10Improve planner's choices about when to use hashing vs sorting for DISTINCT.Tom Lane
The previous coding missed a bet by sometimes picking the "sorted" path from query_planner even though hashing would be preferable. To fix, we have to be willing to make the choice sooner. This contorts things a little bit, but I thought of a factorization that makes it not too awful.
2010-01-18Fix an oversight in convert_EXISTS_sublink_to_join: we can't convert anTom Lane
EXISTS that contains a WITH clause. This would usually lead to a "could not find CTE" error later in planning, because the WITH wouldn't get processed at all. Noted while playing with an example from Ken Marshall.
2010-01-15Do parse analysis of an EXPLAIN's contained statement during the normalTom Lane
parse analysis phase, rather than at execution time. This makes parameter handling work the same as it does in ordinary plannable queries, and in particular fixes the incompatibility that Pavel pointed out with plpgsql's new handling of variable references. plancache.c gets a little bit grottier, but the alternatives seem worse.
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2010-01-01Add an "argisrow" field to NullTest nodes, following a plan made way back inTom Lane
8.2beta but never carried out. This avoids repetitive tests of whether the argument is of scalar or composite type. Also, be a bit more paranoid about composite arguments in some places where we previously weren't checking.
2010-01-01Support "x IS NOT NULL" clauses as indexscan conditions. This turns outTom Lane
to be just a minor extension of the previous patch that made "x IS NULL" indexable, because we can treat the IS NOT NULL condition as if it were "x < NULL" or "x > NULL" (depending on the index's NULLS FIRST/LAST option), just like IS NULL is treated like "x = NULL". Aside from any possible usefulness in its own right, this is an important improvement for index-optimized MAX/MIN aggregates: it is now reliably possible to get a column's min or max value cheaply, even when there are a lot of nulls cluttering the interesting end of the index.
2009-12-29Add the ability to store inheritance-tree statistics in pg_statistic,Tom Lane
and teach ANALYZE to compute such stats for tables that have subclasses. Per my proposal of yesterday. autovacuum still needs to be taught about running ANALYZE on parent tables when their subclasses change, but the feature is useful even without that.
2009-12-15Support ORDER BY within aggregate function calls, at long last providing aTom Lane
non-kluge method for controlling the order in which values are fed to an aggregate function. At the same time eliminate the old implementation restriction that DISTINCT was only supported for single-argument aggregates. Possibly release-notable behavioral change: formerly, agg(DISTINCT x) dropped null values of x unconditionally. Now, it does so only if the agg transition function is strict; otherwise nulls are treated as DISTINCT normally would, ie, you get one copy. Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada
2009-11-28Eliminate a lot of list-management overhead within join_search_one_levelTom Lane
by adding a requirement that build_join_rel add new join RelOptInfos to the appropriate list immediately at creation. Per report from Robert Haas, the list_concat_unique_ptr() calls that this change eliminates were taking the lion's share of the runtime in larger join problems. This doesn't do anything to fix the fundamental combinatorial explosion in large join problems, but it should push out the threshold of pain a bit further. Note: because this changes the order in which joinrel lists are built, it might result in changes in selected plans in cases where different alternatives have exactly the same costs. There is one example in the regression tests.
2009-11-16While doing the final setrefs.c pass over a plan tree, try to match upTom Lane
non-Var sort/group expressions using ressortgroupref labels instead of depending entirely on equal()-ity of the upper node's tlist expressions to the lower node's. This avoids emitting the wrong outputs in cases where there are textually identical volatile sort/group expressions, as for example select distinct random(),random() from generate_series(1,10); Per report from Andrew Gierth. Backpatch to 8.4. Arguably this is wrong all the way back, but the only known case where there's an observable problem is when using hash aggregation to implement DISTINCT, which is new as of 8.4. So for the moment I'll refrain from backpatching further.
2009-11-15Improve planning of Materialize nodes inserted atop the inner input of aTom Lane
mergejoin to shield it from doing mark/restore and refetches. Put an explicit flag in MergePath so we can centralize the logic that knows about this, and add costing logic that considers using Materialize even when it's not forced by the previously-existing considerations. This is in response to a discussion back in August that suggested that materializing an inner indexscan can be helpful when the refetch percentage is high enough.
2009-10-28When FOR UPDATE/SHARE is used with LIMIT, put the LockRows plan nodeTom Lane
underneath the Limit node, not atop it. This fixes the old problem that such a query might unexpectedly return fewer rows than the LIMIT says, due to LockRows discarding updated rows. There is a related problem that LockRows might destroy the sort ordering produced by earlier steps; but fixing that by pushing LockRows below Sort would create serious performance problems that are unjustified in many real-world applications, as well as potential deadlock problems from locking many more rows than expected. Instead, keep the present semantics of applying FOR UPDATE after ORDER BY within a single query level; but allow the user to specify the other way by writing FOR UPDATE in a sub-select. To make that work, track whether FOR UPDATE appeared explicitly in sub-selects or got pushed down from the parent, and don't flatten a sub-select that contained an explicit FOR UPDATE.
2009-10-26Re-implement EvalPlanQual processing to improve its performance and eliminateTom Lane
a lot of strange behaviors that occurred in join cases. We now identify the "current" row for every joined relation in UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE queries. If an EvalPlanQual recheck is necessary, we jam the appropriate row into each scan node in the rechecking plan, forcing it to emit only that one row. The former behavior could rescan the whole of each joined relation for each recheck, which was terrible for performance, and what's much worse could result in duplicated output tuples. Also, the original implementation of EvalPlanQual could not re-use the recheck execution tree --- it had to go through a full executor init and shutdown for every row to be tested. To avoid this overhead, I've associated a special runtime Param with each LockRows or ModifyTable plan node, and arranged to make every scan node below such a node depend on that Param. Thus, by signaling a change in that Param, the EPQ machinery can just rescan the already-built test plan. This patch also adds a prohibition on set-returning functions in the targetlist of SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE. This is needed to avoid the duplicate-output-tuple problem. It seems fairly reasonable since the other restrictions on SELECT FOR UPDATE are meant to ensure that there is a unique correspondence between source tuples and result tuples, which an output SRF destroys as much as anything else does.
2009-10-14Support SQL-compliant triggers on columns, ie fire only if certain columnsTom Lane
are named in the UPDATE's SET list. Note: the schema of pg_trigger has not actually changed; we've just started to use a column that was there all along. catversion bumped anyway so that this commit is included in the history of potentially interesting changes to system catalog contents. Itagaki Takahiro
2009-10-12Move the handling of SELECT FOR UPDATE locking and rechecking out ofTom Lane
execMain.c and into a new plan node type LockRows. Like the recent change to put table updating into a ModifyTable plan node, this increases planning flexibility by allowing the operations to occur below the top level of the plan tree. It's necessary in any case to restore the previous behavior of having FOR UPDATE locking occur before ModifyTable does. This partially refactors EvalPlanQual to allow multiple rows-under-test to be inserted into the EPQ machinery before starting an EPQ test query. That isn't sufficient to fix EPQ's general bogosity in the face of plans that return multiple rows per test row, though. Since this patch is mostly about getting some plan node infrastructure in place and not about fixing ten-year-old bugs, I will leave EPQ improvements for another day. Another behavioral change that we could now think about is doing FOR UPDATE before LIMIT, but that too seems like it should be treated as a followon patch.
2009-10-10Split the processing of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations out of execMain.c.Tom Lane
They are now handled by a new plan node type called ModifyTable, which is placed at the top of the plan tree. In itself this change doesn't do much, except perhaps make the handling of RETURNING lists and inherited UPDATEs a tad less klugy. But it is necessary preparation for the intended extension of allowing RETURNING queries inside WITH. Marko Tiikkaja
2009-10-08Support use of function argument names to identify which actual argumentsTom Lane
match which function parameters. The syntax uses AS, for example funcname(value AS arg1, anothervalue AS arg2) Pavel Stehule
2009-09-17Implement "join removal" for cases where the inner side of a left joinTom Lane
is unique and is not referenced above the join. In this case the inner side doesn't affect the query result and can be thrown away entirely. Although perhaps nobody would ever write such a thing by hand, it's a reasonably common case in machine-generated SQL. The current implementation only recognizes the case where the inner side is a simple relation with a unique index matching the query conditions. This is enough for the use-cases that have been shown so far, but we might want to try to handle other cases later. Robert Haas, somewhat rewritten by Tom
2009-09-12Rewrite the planner's handling of materialized plan types so that there isTom Lane
an explicit model of rescan costs being different from first-time costs. The costing of Material nodes in particular now has some visible relationship to the actual runtime behavior, where before it was essentially fantasy. This also fixes up a couple of places where different materialized plan types were treated differently for no very good reason (probably just oversights). A couple of the regression tests are affected, because the planner now chooses to put the other relation on the inside of a nestloop-with-materialize. So far as I can see both changes are sane, and the planner is now more consistently following the expectation that it should prefer to materialize the smaller of two relations. Per a recent discussion with Robert Haas.
2009-07-21Fix another semijoin-ordering bug. We already knew that we couldn'tTom Lane
reorder a semijoin into or out of the righthand side of another semijoin, but actually it doesn't work to reorder it into or out of the righthand side of a left or antijoin, either. Per bug #4906 from Mathieu Fenniak. This was sloppy thinking on my part. This identity does work: ( A left join B on (Pab) ) semijoin C on (Pac) == ( A semijoin C on (Pac) ) left join B on (Pab) but I failed to see that that doesn't mean this does: ( A left join B on (Pab) ) semijoin C on (Pbc) != A left join ( B semijoin C on (Pbc) ) on (Pab)
2009-07-17Repair bug #4926 "too few pathkeys for mergeclauses". This example showsTom Lane
that the sanity checking I added to create_mergejoin_plan() in 8.3 was a few bricks shy of a load: the mergeclauses could reference pathkeys in a noncanonical order such as x,y,x, not only cases like x,x,y which is all that the code had allowed for. The odd cases only turn up when using redundant clauses in an outer join condition, which is why no one had noticed before.
2009-07-16Make backend header files C++ safePeter Eisentraut
This alters various incidental uses of C++ key words to use other similar identifiers, so that a C++ compiler won't choke outright. You still (probably) need extern "C" { }; around the inclusion of backend headers. based on a patch by Kurt Harriman <harriman@acm.org> Also add a script cpluspluscheck to check for C++ compatibility in the future. As of right now, this passes without error for me.
2009-07-06Fix handling of changed-Param signaling for CteScan plan nodes. We were usingTom Lane
the "cteParam" as a proxy for the possibility that the underlying CTE plan depends on outer-level variables or Params, but that doesn't work very well because it sometimes causes calling subqueries to be treated as SubPlans when they could be InitPlans. This is inefficient and also causes the outright failure exhibited in bug #4902. Instead, leave the cteParam out of it and copy the underlying CTE plan's extParams directly. Per bug #4902 from Marko Tiikkaja.
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-05-09Fix cost_nestloop and cost_hashjoin to model the behavior of semi and antiTom Lane
joins a bit better, ie, understand the differing cost functions for matched and unmatched outer tuples. There is more that could be done in cost_hashjoin but this already helps a great deal. Per discussions with Robert Haas.
2009-05-07Ooops ... make_outerjoininfo wasn't actually enforcing the join orderTom Lane
restrictions specified for semijoins in optimizer/README, to wit that you can't reassociate outer joins into or out of the RHS of a semijoin. Per report from Heikki.
2009-05-06Tweak distribute_qual_to_rels so that when we decide a pseudoconstant qualTom Lane
can be pushed to the top of the join tree, we update both the relids and qualscope variables to keep them in sync. This prevents a possible later failure of an Assert clause, and affects nothing else since qualscope isn't used later except for that Assert. At the moment the Assert shouldn't be reachable when we've pushed the qual up; but this is cheap insurance, and it's more sensible anyway in terms of the overall logic of the routine. Per analysis of a bug report from Stefan Huehner. I'm not back-patching this since it's just future-proofing; but if anyone gets tempted to change check_outerjoin_delay again in the back branches, this might be needed.
2009-04-28Improve pull_up_subqueries logic so that it doesn't insert unnecessaryTom Lane
PlaceHolderVar nodes in join quals appearing in or below the lowest outer join that could null the subquery being pulled up. This improves the planner's ability to recognize constant join quals, and probably helps with detection of common sort keys (equivalence classes) as well.
2009-04-25Fix the handling of sub-SELECTs appearing in the arguments of an outer-levelTom Lane
aggregate function. By definition, such a sub-SELECT cannot reference any variables of query levels between itself and the aggregate's semantic level (else the aggregate would've been assigned to that lower level instead). So the correct, most efficient implementation is to treat the sub-SELECT as being a sub-select of that outer query level, not the level the aggregate syntactically appears in. Not doing so also confuses the heck out of our parameter-passing logic, as illustrated in bug report from Daniel Grace. Fortunately, we were already copying the whole Aggref expression up to the outer query level, so all that's needed is to delay SS_process_sublinks processing of the sub-SELECT until control returns to the outer level. This has been broken since we introduced spec-compliant treatment of outer aggregates in 7.4; so patch all the way back.
2009-04-19Fix estimate_num_groups() to not fail on PlaceHolderVars, per report fromTom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner. The most reasonable behavior (at least for the near term) seems to be to ignore the PlaceHolderVar and examine its argument instead. In support of this, change the API of pull_var_clause() to allow callers to request recursion into PlaceHolderVars. Currently estimate_num_groups() is the only customer for that behavior, but where there's one there may be others.
2009-04-16Fix planner to restore its previous level of intelligence about pushingTom Lane
constants through full joins, as in select * from tenk1 a full join tenk1 b using (unique1) where unique1 = 42; which should generate a fairly cheap plan where we apply the constraint unique1 = 42 in each relation scan. This had been broken by my patch of 2008-06-27, which is now reverted in favor of a more invasive but hopefully less incorrect approach. That patch was meant to prevent incorrect extraction of OR'd indexclauses from OR conditions above an outer join. To do that correctly we need more information than the outerjoin_delay flag can provide, so add a nullable_relids field to RestrictInfo that records exactly which relations are nulled by outer joins that are underneath a particular qual clause. A side benefit is that we can make the test in create_or_index_quals more specific: it is now smart enough to extract an OR'd indexclause into the outer side of an outer join, even though it must not do so in the inner side. The old coding couldn't distinguish these cases so it could not do either.
2009-04-05Change EXPLAIN output so that subplans and initplans (particularly CTEs)Tom Lane
are individually labeled, rather than just grouped under an "InitPlan" or "SubPlan" heading. This in turn makes it possible for decompilation of a subplan reference to usefully identify which subplan it's referencing. I also made InitPlans identify which parameter symbol(s) they compute, so that references to those parameters elsewhere in the plan tree can be connected to the initplan that will be executed. Per a gripe from Robert Haas about EXPLAIN output of a WITH query being inadequate, plus some longstanding pet peeves of my own.
2009-03-30Fix window function plan generation to cope with volatile sort expressions.Tom Lane
(Not clear how useful these really are, but failing is no good...) Per report from David Fetter and Robert Treat.
2009-03-26If we expect a hash join to be performed in multiple batches, suppressTom Lane
"physical tlist" optimization on the outer relation (ie, force a projection step to occur in its scan). This avoids storing useless column values when the outer relation's tuples are written to temporary batch files. Modified version of a patch by Michael Henderson and Ramon Lawrence.
2009-03-24Fix stupid parenthesization mistake. Per bug #4728 from Bruce Toll.Tom Lane
2009-03-21Optimize multi-batch hash joins when the outer relation has a nonuniformTom Lane
distribution, by creating a special fast path for the (first few) most common values of the outer relation. Tuples having hashvalues matching the MCVs are effectively forced to be in the first batch, so that we never write them out to the batch temp files. Bryce Cutt and Ramon Lawrence, with some editorialization by me.
2009-03-10Make SubPlan nodes carry the result's typmod as well as datatype OID. This isTom Lane
for consistency with the (relatively) recent addition of typmod to SubLink. An example of why it's a good idea is to be seen in the recent "failed to locate grouping columns" bug, which wouldn't have happened if a SubPlan exposed the same typmod info as the SubLink it was derived from. This could be back-patched, since it doesn't affect any on-disk data format, but for the moment it doesn't seem necessary to do so.
2009-02-27Tighten up join ordering rules to account for recent more-careful analysisTom Lane
of the associativity of antijoins. Also improve optimizer/README discussion of outer join ordering rules.
2009-02-25Get rid of the rather fuzzily defined FlattenedSubLink node type in favor ofTom Lane
making pull_up_sublinks() construct a full-blown JoinExpr tree representation of IN/EXISTS SubLinks that it is able to convert to semi or anti joins. This makes pull_up_sublinks() a shade more complex, but the gain in semantic clarity is worth it. I still have more to do in this area to address the previously-discussed problems, but this commit in itself fixes at least one bug in HEAD, as shown by added regression test case.
2009-02-20Simplify overcomplicated (and overly restrictive) test to see whether anTom Lane
IS NULL condition is rendered redundant by detection of an antijoin. If we know that a join is an antijoin, then *any* Var coming out of its righthand side must be NULL, not only the joining column(s). Also, it's still gonna be null after being passed up through higher joins, whether they're outer joins or not. I was misled by a faulty analogy to reduce_outer_joins() in the original coding. But consider select * from a left join b on a.x = b.y where b.y is null and b.z is null; The first IS NULL condition justifies deciding that the join is an antijoin (if the = is strict) and then the second one is just plain redundant.
2009-01-22Support column-level privileges, as required by SQL standard.Tom Lane
Stephen Frost, with help from KaiGai Kohei and others
2009-01-09Arrange for function default arguments to be processed properly in expressionsTom Lane
that are set up for execution with ExecPrepareExpr rather than going through the full planner process. By introducing an explicit notion of "expression planning", this patch also lays a bit of groundwork for maybe someday allowing sub-selects in standalone expressions.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-12-31Add some basic support for window frame clauses to the window-functionsTom Lane
patch. This includes the ability to force the frame to cover the whole partition, and the ability to make the frame end exactly on the current row rather than its last ORDER BY peer. Supporting any more of the full SQL frame-clause syntax will require nontrivial hacking on the window aggregate code, so it'll have to wait for 8.5 or beyond.
2008-12-28Support window functions a la SQL:2008.Tom Lane
Hitoshi Harada, with some kibitzing from Heikki and Tom.
2008-12-18Code review for function default parameters patch. Fix numerous problems asTom Lane
per recent discussions. In passing this also fixes a couple of bugs in the previous variadic-parameters patch.