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2010-02-26pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
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.
2009-09-02Fix subquery pullup to wrap a PlaceHolderVar around the entire RowExprTom Lane
that's generated for a whole-row Var referencing the subquery, when the subquery is in the nullable side of an outer join. The previous coding instead put PlaceHolderVars around the elements of the RowExpr. The effect was that when the outer join made the subquery outputs go to null, the whole-row Var produced ROW(NULL,NULL,...) rather than just NULL. There are arguments afoot about whether those things ought to be semantically indistinguishable, but for the moment they are not entirely so, and the planner needs to take care that its machinations preserve the difference. Per bug #5025. Making this feasible required refactoring ResolveNew() to allow more caller control over what is substituted for a Var. I chose to make ResolveNew() a wrapper around a new general-purpose function replace_rte_variables(). I also fixed the ancient bogosity that ResolveNew might fail to set a query's hasSubLinks field after inserting a SubLink in it. Although all current callers make sure that happens anyway, we've had bugs of that sort before, and it seemed like a good time to install a proper solution. Back-patch to 8.4. The problem can be demonstrated clear back to 8.0, but the fix would be too invasive in earlier branches; not to mention that people may be depending on the subtly-incorrect behavior. The 8.4 series is new enough that fixing this probably won't cause complaints, but it might in older branches. Also, 8.4 shows the incorrect behavior in more cases than older branches do, because it is able to flatten subqueries in more cases.
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
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.
2009-02-27Temporarily (I hope) disable flattening of IN/EXISTS sublinks that are withinTom Lane
the ON clause of an outer join. Doing so is semantically correct but results in de-optimizing queries that were structured to take advantage of the sublink style of execution, as seen in recent complaint from Kevin Grittner. Since the user can get the other behavior by reorganizing his query, having the flattening happen automatically is just a convenience, and that doesn't justify breaking existing applications. Eventually it would be nice to re-enable this, but that seems to require a significantly different approach to outer joins in the executor.
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.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-12-28Support window functions a la SQL:2008.Tom Lane
Hitoshi Harada, with some kibitzing from Heikki and Tom.
2008-11-11Ensure that the phrels sets of PlaceHolderVars appearing in an AppendRelInfo'sTom Lane
translated_vars list get updated when pulling up an appendrel member. It's not clear that this really matters at present, since relatively little gets done with the outputs of an appendrel child relation; but it probably will come back to bite us sometime if we leave them with the wrong values.
2008-11-11Get rid of adjust_appendrel_attr_needed(), which has been broken ever sinceTom Lane
we extended the appendrel mechanism to support UNION ALL optimization. The reason nobody noticed was that we are not actually using attr_needed data for appendrel children; hence it seems more reasonable to rip it out than fix it. Back-patch to 8.2 because an Assert failure is possible in corner cases. Per examination of an example from Jim Nasby. In HEAD, also get rid of AppendRelInfo.col_mappings, which is quite inadequate to represent UNION ALL situations; depend entirely on translated_vars instead.
2008-10-22Dept of better ideas: refrain from creating the planner's placeholder_listTom Lane
until vars are distributed to rels during query_planner() startup. We don't really need it before that, and not building it early has some advantages. First, we don't need to put it through the various preprocessing steps, which saves some cycles and eliminates the need for a number of routines to support PlaceHolderInfo nodes at all. Second, this means one less unused plan for any sub-SELECT appearing in a placeholder's expression, since we don't build placeholder_list until after sublink expansion is complete.
2008-10-21Add a concept of "placeholder" variables to the planner. These are variablesTom Lane
that represent some expression that we desire to compute below the top level of the plan, and then let that value "bubble up" as though it were a plain Var (ie, a column value). The immediate application is to allow sub-selects to be flattened even when they are below an outer join and have non-nullable output expressions. Formerly we couldn't flatten because such an expression wouldn't properly go to NULL when evaluated above the outer join. Now, we wrap it in a PlaceHolderVar and arrange for the actual evaluation to occur below the outer join. When the resulting Var bubbles up through the join, it will be set to NULL if necessary, yielding the correct results. This fixes a planner limitation that's existed since 7.1. In future we might want to use this mechanism to re-introduce some form of Hellerstein's "expensive functions" optimization, ie place the evaluation of an expensive function at the most suitable point in the plan tree.
2008-10-09Improve the recently-added code for inlining set-returning functions so thatTom Lane
it can handle functions returning setof record. The case was left undone originally, but it turns out to be simple to fix.
2008-10-04Implement SQL-standard WITH clauses, including WITH RECURSIVE.Tom Lane
There are some unimplemented aspects: recursive queries must use UNION ALL (should allow UNION too), and we don't have SEARCH or CYCLE clauses. These might or might not get done for 8.4, but even without them it's a pretty useful feature. There are also a couple of small loose ends and definitional quibbles, which I'll send a memo about to pgsql-hackers shortly. But let's land the patch now so we can get on with other development. Yoshiyuki Asaba, with lots of help from Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane
2008-08-25Move exprType(), exprTypmod(), expression_tree_walker(), and related routinesTom Lane
into nodes/nodeFuncs, so as to reduce wanton cross-subsystem #includes inside the backend. There's probably more that should be done along this line, but this is a start anyway.
2008-08-17Improve sublink pullup code to handle ANY/EXISTS sublinks that are at topTom Lane
level of a JOIN/ON clause, not only at top level of WHERE. (However, we can't do this in an outer join's ON clause, unless the ANY/EXISTS refers only to the nullable side of the outer join, so that it can effectively be pushed down into the nullable side.) Per request from Kevin Grittner. In passing, fix a bug in the initial implementation of EXISTS pullup: it would Assert if the EXIST's WHERE clause used a join alias variable. Since we haven't yet flattened join aliases when this transformation happens, it's necessary to include join relids in the computed set of RHS relids.
2008-08-14Fix pull_up_simple_union_all to copy all rtable entries from child subquery toHeikki Linnakangas
parent, not only those with RangeTblRefs. We need them in ExecCheckRTPerms. Report by Brendan O'Shea. Back-patch to 8.2, where pull_up_simple_union_all was introduced.
2008-08-14Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replaceTom Lane
the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.) Teach the planner to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti joins respectively. Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL filters are recognized as being anti joins. Unify the InClauseInfo and OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo". With that change, it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt, which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation. That needs to be taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a separate patch. So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and especially anti joins are quite bogus.
2008-03-18Arrange to "inline" SQL functions that appear in a query's FROM clause,Tom Lane
are declared to return set, and consist of just a single SELECT. We can replace the FROM-item with a sub-SELECT and then optimize much as if we were dealing with a view. Patch from Richard Rowell, cleaned up by me.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-04-27Modify processing of DECLARE CURSOR and EXPLAIN so that they can resolve theTom Lane
types of unspecified parameters when submitted via extended query protocol. This worked in 8.2 but I had broken it during plancache changes. DECLARE CURSOR is now treated almost exactly like a plain SELECT through parse analysis, rewrite, and planning; only just before sending to the executor do we divert it away to ProcessUtility. This requires a special-case check in a number of places, but practically all of them were already special-casing SELECT INTO, so it's not too ugly. (Maybe it would be a good idea to merge the two by treating IntoClause as a form of utility statement? Not going to worry about that now, though.) That approach doesn't work for EXPLAIN, however, so for that I punted and used a klugy solution of running parse analysis an extra time if under extended query protocol.
2007-02-19Get rid of some old and crufty global variables in the planner. WhenTom Lane
this code was last gone over, there wasn't really any alternative to globals because we didn't have the PlannerInfo struct being passed all through the planner code. Now that we do, we can restructure things to avoid non-reentrancy. I'm fooling with this because otherwise I'd have had to add another global variable for the planned compact range table list.
2007-01-20Refactor planner's pathkeys data structure to create a separate, explicitTom Lane
representation of equivalence classes of variables. This is an extensive rewrite, but it brings a number of benefits: * planner no longer fails in the presence of "incomplete" operator families that don't offer operators for every possible combination of datatypes. * avoid generating and then discarding redundant equality clauses. * remove bogus assumption that derived equalities always use operators named "=". * mergejoins can work with a variety of sort orders (e.g., descending) now, instead of tying each mergejoinable operator to exactly one sort order. * better recognition of redundant sort columns. * can make use of equalities appearing underneath an outer join.
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian
2006-08-19Suppress subquery pullup/pushdown when a subquery contains volatileTom Lane
functions in its targetlist, to avoid introducing multiple evaluations of volatile functions that textually appear only once. This is a slightly tighter version of Jaime Casanova's recent patch.
2006-08-12Tweak SPI_cursor_open to allow INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING; this wasTom Lane
merely a matter of fixing the error check, since the underlying Portal infrastructure already handles it. This in turn allows these statements to be used in some existing plpgsql and plperl contexts, such as a plpgsql FOR loop. Also, do some marginal code cleanup in places that were being sloppy about distinguishing SELECT from SELECT INTO.
2006-08-12Add INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING, with basic docs and regression tests.Tom Lane
plpgsql support to come later. Along the way, convert execMain's SELECT INTO support into a DestReceiver, in order to eliminate some ugly special cases. Jonah Harris and Tom Lane
2006-08-10Fix UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT so that when two inputs being merged haveTom Lane
same data type and same typmod, we show that typmod as the output typmod, rather than generic -1. This responds to several complaints over the past few years about UNIONs unexpectedly dropping length or precision info.
2006-07-14Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian
2006-04-30Improve the representation of FOR UPDATE/FOR SHARE so that we canTom Lane
support both FOR UPDATE and FOR SHARE in one command, as well as both NOWAIT and normal WAIT behavior. The more general code is actually simpler and cleaner.
2006-03-07Remove the stub support we had for UNION JOIN; per discussion, this isTom Lane
not likely ever to be implemented seeing it's been removed from SQL2003. This allows getting rid of the 'filter' version of yylex() that we had in parser.c, which should save at least a few microseconds in parsing.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2006-02-03Teach planner to convert simple UNION ALL subqueries into append relations,Tom Lane
thereby sharing code with the inheritance case. This puts the UNION-ALL-view approach to partitioned tables on par with inheritance, so far as constraint exclusion is concerned: it works either way. (Still need to update the docs to say so.) The definition of "simple UNION ALL" is a little simpler than I would like --- basically the union arms can only be SELECT * FROM foo --- but it's good enough for partitioned-table cases.
2006-01-31Restructure planner's handling of inheritance. Rather than processingTom Lane
inheritance trees on-the-fly, which pretty well constrained us to considering only one way of planning inheritance, expand inheritance sets during the planner prep phase, and build a side data structure that can be consulted later to find which RTEs are members of which inheritance sets. As proof of concept, use the data structure to plan joins against inheritance sets more efficiently: we can now use indexes on the set members in inner-indexscan joins. (The generated plans could be improved further, but it'll take some executor changes.) This data structure will also support handling UNION ALL subqueries in the same way as inheritance sets, but that aspect of it isn't finished yet.
2005-12-20Teach planner how to rearrange join order for some classes of OUTER JOIN.Tom Lane
Per my recent proposal. I ended up basing the implementation on the existing mechanism for enforcing valid join orders of IN joins --- the rules for valid outer-join orders are somewhat similar.
2005-11-22Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-08-01Add NOWAIT option to SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE.Tom Lane
Original patch by Hans-Juergen Schoenig, revisions by Karel Zak and Tom Lane.
2005-06-05Remove planner's private fields from Query struct, and put them intoTom Lane
a new PlannerInfo struct, which is passed around instead of the bare Query in all the planning code. This commit is essentially just a code-beautification exercise, but it does open the door to making larger changes to the planner data structures without having to muck with the widely-known Query struct.
2005-06-04Change expandRTE() and ResolveNew() back to taking just the singleTom Lane
RTE of interest, rather than the whole rangetable list. This makes the API more understandable and avoids duplicate RTE lookups. This patch reverts no-longer-needed portions of my patch of 2004-08-19.
2005-04-28Implement sharable row-level locks, and use them for foreign key referencesTom Lane
to eliminate unnecessary deadlocks. This commit adds SELECT ... FOR SHARE paralleling SELECT ... FOR UPDATE. The implementation uses a new SLRU data structure (managed much like pg_subtrans) to represent multiple- transaction-ID sets. When more than one transaction is holding a shared lock on a particular row, we create a MultiXactId representing that set of transactions and store its ID in the row's XMAX. This scheme allows an effectively unlimited number of row locks, just as we did before, while not costing any extra overhead except when a shared lock actually has to be shared. Still TODO: use the regular lock manager to control the grant order when multiple backends are waiting for a row lock. Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
2005-04-06Merge Resdom nodes into TargetEntry nodes to simplify code and save aTom Lane
few palloc's. I also chose to eliminate the restype and restypmod fields entirely, since they are redundant with information stored in the node's contained expression; re-examining the expression at need seems simpler and more reliable than trying to keep restype/restypmod up to date. initdb forced due to change in contents of stored rules.
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
2004-12-11Instead of supposing (wrongly, in the general case) that the rowtypeTom Lane
of an inheritance child table is binary-compatible with the rowtype of its parent, invent an expression node type that does the conversion correctly. Fixes the new bug exhibited by Kris Shannon as well as a lot of old bugs that would only show up when using multiple inheritance or after altering the parent table.
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian