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Instead, use the new mechanism that allows planner extensions to store
private state inside a PlannerInfo, treating GEQO as an in-core planner
extension. This is a useful test of the new facility, and also buys
back a few bytes of storage.
To make this work, we must remove innerrel_is_unique_ext's hack of
testing whether join_search_private is set as a proxy for whether
the join search might be retried. Add a flag that extensions can
use to explicitly signal their intentions instead.
Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYWKHU2hKr62Toyzh-kTDEnMDeLw7gkOOnjL-TnOUq0kQ@mail.gmail.com
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Previously, subqueries were given names only after they were planned,
which makes it difficult to use information from a previous execution of
the query to guide future planning. If, for example, you knew something
about how you want "InitPlan 2" to be planned, you won't know whether
the subquery you're currently planning will end up being "InitPlan 2"
until after you've finished planning it, by which point it's too late to
use the information that you had.
To fix this, assign each subplan a unique name before we begin planning
it. To improve consistency, use textual names for all subplans, rather
than, as we did previously, a mix of numbers (such as "InitPlan 1") and
names (such as "CTE foo"), and make sure that the same name is never
assigned more than once.
We adopt the somewhat arbitrary convention of using the type of sublink
to set the plan name; for example, a query that previously had two
expression sublinks shown as InitPlan 2 and InitPlan 1 will now end up
named expr_1 and expr_2. Because names are assigned before rather than
after planning, some of the regression test outputs show the numerical
part of the name switching positions: what was previously SubPlan 2 was
actually the first one encountered, but we finished planning it later.
We assign names even to subqueries that aren't shown as such within the
EXPLAIN output. These include subqueries that are a FROM clause item or
a branch of a set operation, rather than something that will be turned
into an InitPlan or SubPlan. The purpose of this is to make sure that,
below the topmost query level, there's always a name for each subquery
that is stable from one planning cycle to the next (assuming no changes
to the query or the database schema).
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Alexandra Wang <alexandra.wang.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/3641043.1758751399@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In commit b262ad440, we introduced an optimization that reduces an IS
[NOT] NULL qual on a NOT NULL column to constant true or constant
false, provided we can prove that the input expression of the NullTest
is not nullable by any outer joins or grouping sets. This deduction
happens quite late in the planner, during the distribution of quals to
rels in query_planner. However, this approach has some drawbacks: we
can't perform any further folding with the constant, and it turns out
to be prone to bugs.
Ideally, this deduction should happen during constant folding.
However, the per-relation information about which columns are defined
as NOT NULL is not available at that point. This information is
currently collected from catalogs when building RelOptInfos for base
or "other" relations.
This patch moves the collection of NOT NULL attribute information for
relations before pull_up_sublinks, storing it in a hash table keyed by
relation OID. It then uses this information to perform the NullTest
deduction for Vars during constant folding. This also makes it
possible to leverage this information to pull up NOT IN subqueries.
Note that this patch does not get rid of restriction_is_always_true
and restriction_is_always_false. Removing them would prevent us from
reducing some IS [NOT] NULL quals that we were previously able to
reduce, because (a) the self-join elimination may introduce new IS NOT
NULL quals after constant folding, and (b) if some outer joins are
converted to inner joins, previously irreducible NullTest quals may
become reducible.
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-bFJ1At4btk5wqbezdu8PLtQ3zv-aiaY3ry9Ymm=jgFQ@mail.gmail.com
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There are several pieces of catalog information that need to be
retrieved for a relation during the early stage of planning. These
include relhassubclass, which is used to clear the inh flag if the
relation has no children, as well as a column's attgenerated and
default value, which are needed to expand virtual generated columns.
More such information may be required in the future.
Currently, these pieces of catalog data are collected in multiple
places, resulting in repeated table_open/table_close calls for each
relation in the rangetable. This patch centralizes the collection of
all required early-stage catalog information into a single loop over
the rangetable, allowing each relation to be opened and closed only
once.
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-bFJ1At4btk5wqbezdu8PLtQ3zv-aiaY3ry9Ymm=jgFQ@mail.gmail.com
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Currently, we expand virtual generated columns after we have pulled up
any SubLinks within the query's quals. This ensures that the virtual
generated column references within SubLinks that should be transformed
into joins are correctly expanded. This approach works well and has
posed no issues.
In an upcoming patch, we plan to centralize the collection of catalog
information needed early in the planner. This will help avoid
repeated table_open/table_close calls for relations in the rangetable.
Since this information is required during sublink pull-up, we are
moving the expansion of virtual generated columns to occur beforehand.
To achieve this, if any EXISTS SubLinks can be pulled up, their
rangetables are processed just before pulling them up.
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-bFJ1At4btk5wqbezdu8PLtQ3zv-aiaY3ry9Ymm=jgFQ@mail.gmail.com
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This commit implements the automatic conversion of 'x IN (VALUES ...)' into
ScalarArrayOpExpr. That simplifies the query tree, eliminating the appearance
of an unnecessary join.
Since VALUES describes a relational table, and the value of such a list is
a table row, the optimizer will likely face an underestimation problem due to
the inability to estimate cardinality through MCV statistics. The cardinality
evaluation mechanism can work with the array inclusion check operation.
If the array is small enough (< 100 elements), it will perform a statistical
evaluation element by element.
We perform the transformation in the convert_ANY_sublink_to_join() if VALUES
RTE is proper and the transformation is convertible. The conversion is only
possible for operations on scalar values, not rows. Also, we currently
support the transformation only when it ends up with a constant array.
Otherwise, the evaluation of non-hashed SAOP might be slower than the
corresponding Hash Join with VALUES.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0184212d-1248-4f1f-a42d-f5cb1c1976d2%40tantorlabs.com
Author: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ivan Kush <ivan.kush@tantorlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
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When pulling up a subquery, if the subquery's target list items are
used in grouping set columns, we need to wrap them in PlaceHolderVars.
This ensures that expressions retain their separate identity so that
they will match grouping set columns when appropriate.
In 90947674f, we decided to wrap subquery outputs that are non-var
expressions in PlaceHolderVars. This prevents const-simplification
from merging them into the surrounding expressions after subquery
pullup, which could otherwise lead to failing to match those
subexpressions to grouping set columns, with the effect that they'd
not go to null when expected.
However, that left some loose ends. If the subquery's target list
contains two or more identical Var expressions, we can still fail to
match the Var expression to the expected grouping set expression.
This is not related to const-simplification, but rather to how we
match expressions to lower target items in setrefs.c.
For sort/group expressions, we use ressortgroupref matching, which
works well. For other expressions, we primarily rely on comparing the
expressions to determine if they are the same. Therefore, we need a
way to prevent setrefs.c from matching the expression to some other
identical ones.
To fix, wrap all subquery outputs in PlaceHolderVars if the parent
query uses grouping sets, ensuring that they preserve their separate
identity throughout the whole planning process.
Reported-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-meSahaanKskpBn0KKxdHAXC1_EJCVWHxEodqirrGJnw@mail.gmail.com
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In pull_up_simple_subquery and pull_up_constant_function, there is
code that sets wrap_non_vars to true when dealing with an appendrel
member. The goal is to wrap subquery outputs that are not simple Vars
in PlaceHolderVars, ensuring that what we pull up doesn't get merged
into a surrounding expression during later processing, which could
cause it to fail to match the expression actually available from the
appendrel.
However, this is unnecessary. When pulling up an appendrel child
subquery, the only part of the upper query that could reference the
appendrel child yet is the translated_vars list of the associated
AppendRelInfo that we just made for this child. Furthermore, we do
not want to force use of PHVs in the AppendRelInfo, as there is no
outer join between. In fact, perform_pullup_replace_vars always sets
wrap_non_vars to false before performing pullup_replace_vars on the
AppendRelInfo.
This patch simply removes the code that sets wrap_non_vars to true for
UNION ALL subqueries.
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-VXDEi1v+hZYLxpOv0riJxHsCkCH1f46tLnhonEAyGCQ@mail.gmail.com
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makeWholeRowVar() has different rules for constructing a
whole-row Var depending on the kind of RTE it's representing.
This turns out to be problematic because the rewriter and planner
can convert view RTEs and set-returning-function RTEs into
subquery RTEs; so a whole-row Var made during planning might
look different from one made by the parser. In isolation this
doesn't cause any problem, but if a query contains Vars made
both ways for the same varno, there are cross-checks in the
executor that will complain. This manifests for UPDATE, DELETE,
and MERGE queries that use whole-row table references.
To fix, we need makeWholeRowVar() to produce the same result
from an inlined RTE as it would have for the original. For
an inlined view, we can use RangeTblEntry.relid to detect
that this had been a view RTE. For inlined SRFs, make a
data structure definition change akin to commit 47bb9db75,
and say that we won't clear RangeTblEntry.functions until
the end of planning. That allows makeWholeRowVar() to
repeat what it would have done with the unmodified RTE.
Reported-by: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@deepbluecap.com>
Reported-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Diagnosed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3518c50a-ab18-482f-b916-a37263622501@deepbluecap.com
Backpatch-through: 13
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The callback functions ReplaceVarsFromTargetList_callback and
pullup_replace_vars_callback are both used to replace Vars in an
expression tree that reference a particular RTE with items from a
targetlist, and they both need to expand whole-tuple references and
deal with OLD/NEW RETURNING list Vars. As a result, currently there
is significant code duplication between these two functions.
This patch introduces a new function, ReplaceVarFromTargetList, to
perform the replacement and calls it from both callback functions,
thereby eliminating code duplication.
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWhr=FM4X5kCPvVs-g2XEk+ceLsNtBK_zZMkqFn9vUjsw@mail.gmail.com
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Commit 83ea6c540 added support for virtual generated columns that are
computed on read. All Var nodes in the query that reference virtual
generated columns must be replaced with the corresponding generation
expressions. Currently, this replacement occurs in the rewriter.
However, this approach has several issues. If a Var referencing a
virtual generated column has any varnullingrels, those varnullingrels
need to be propagated into the generation expression. Failing to do
so can lead to "wrong varnullingrels" errors and improper outer-join
removal.
Additionally, if such a Var comes from the nullable side of an outer
join, we may need to wrap the generation expression in a
PlaceHolderVar to ensure that it is evaluated at the right place and
hence is forced to null when the outer join should do so. In certain
cases, such as when the query uses grouping sets, we also need a
PlaceHolderVar for anything that is not a simple Var to isolate
subexpressions. Failure to do so can result in incorrect results.
To fix these issues, this patch expands the virtual generated columns
in the planner rather than in the rewriter, and leverages the
pullup_replace_vars architecture to avoid code duplication. The
generation expressions will be correctly marked with nullingrel bits
and wrapped in PlaceHolderVars when needed by the pullup_replace_vars
callback function. This requires handling the OLD/NEW RETURNING list
Vars in pullup_replace_vars_callback, as it may now deal with Vars
referencing the result relation instead of a subquery.
The "wrong varnullingrels" error was reported by Alexander Lakhin.
The incorrect result issue and the improper outer-join removal issue
were reported by Richard Guo.
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/75eb1a6f-d59f-42e6-8a78-124ee808cda7@gmail.com
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This allows the RETURNING list of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE queries
to explicitly return old and new values by using the special aliases
"old" and "new", which are automatically added to the query (if not
already defined) while parsing its RETURNING list, allowing things
like:
RETURNING old.colname, new.colname, ...
RETURNING old.*, new.*
Additionally, a new syntax is supported, allowing the names "old" and
"new" to be changed to user-supplied alias names, e.g.:
RETURNING WITH (OLD AS o, NEW AS n) o.colname, n.colname, ...
This is useful when the names "old" and "new" are already defined,
such as inside trigger functions, allowing backwards compatibility to
be maintained -- the interpretation of any existing queries that
happen to already refer to relations called "old" or "new", or use
those as aliases for other relations, is not changed.
For an INSERT, old values will generally be NULL, and for a DELETE,
new values will generally be NULL, but that may change for an INSERT
with an ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE clause, or if a query rewrite rule
changes the command type. Therefore, we put no restrictions on the use
of old and new in any DML queries.
Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Jian He and Jeff Davis.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWx0J0-v=Qjc6gXzR=KtsdvAE7Ow=D=mu50AgOe+pvisQ@mail.gmail.com
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Backpatch-through: 13
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When pulling up a subquery that is under an outer join, if the
subquery's target list contains a strict expression that uses a
subquery variable, it's okay to pull up the expression without
wrapping it in a PlaceHolderVar: if the subquery variable is forced to
NULL by the outer join, the expression result will come out as NULL
too.
If the strict expression does not contain any subquery variables, the
current code always wraps it in a PlaceHolderVar. While this is not
incorrect, the analysis could be tighter: if the strict expression
contains any variables of rels that are under the same lowest nulling
outer join as the subquery, we can also avoid wrapping it. This is
safe because if the subquery variable is forced to NULL by the outer
join, the variables of rels that are under the same lowest nulling
outer join will also be forced to NULL, resulting in the expression
evaluating to NULL as well. Therefore, it's not necessary to force
the expression to be evaluated below the outer join. It could be
beneficial to get rid of such PHVs because they could imply lateral
dependencies, which force us to resort to nestloop joins.
This patch checks if the lateral references in the strict expression
contain any variables of rels under the same lowest nulling outer join
as the subquery, and avoids wrapping the expression in that case.
This is fundamentally a generalization of the optimizations for bare
Vars and PHVs introduced in commit f64ec81a8.
No backpatch as this could result in plan changes.
Author: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4_ENtfRdLaM_bXAxiKRYO7DmwDBDG4_2=VTDi0mJP-jAw@mail.gmail.com
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When pulling up a lateral subquery that is under an outer join, the
current code always wraps a Var or PHV in the subquery's targetlist
into a new PlaceHolderVar if it is a lateral reference to something
outside the subquery. This is necessary when the Var/PHV references
the non-nullable side of the outer join from the nullable side: we
need to ensure that it is evaluated at the right place and hence is
forced to null when the outer join should do so. However, if the
referenced rel is under the same lowest nulling outer join, we can
actually omit the wrapping. That's safe because if the subquery
variable is forced to NULL by the outer join, the lateral reference
variable will come out as NULL too. It could be beneficial to get rid
of such PHVs because they imply lateral dependencies, which force us
to resort to nestloop joins.
This patch leverages the newly introduced nullingrel_info to check if
the nullingrels of the subquery RTE are a subset of those of the
laterally referenced rel, in order to determine if the referenced rel
is under the same lowest nulling outer join.
No backpatch as this could result in plan changes.
Author: Richard Guo
Reviewed-by: James Coleman, Dmitry Dolgov, Andrei Lepikhov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48uk6C7Z9m_FNT8_21CMCk68hrgAsz=z6zpP1PNZMkeoQ@mail.gmail.com
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As I'd feared, commit 5c9d8636d was still a few bricks shy of a load.
We can't just leave pulled-up lateral-reference Vars with no new
nullingrels: we have to carefully compute what subset of the
to-be-replaced Var's nullingrels apply to them, else we still get
"wrong varnullingrels" errors. This is a bit tedious, but it looks
like we can use the nullingrel data this patch computes for other
purposes, enabling better optimization. We don't want to inject
unnecessary plan changes into stable branches though, so leave that
idea for a later HEAD-only patch.
Patch by me, but thanks to Richard Guo for devising a test case that
broke 5c9d8636d, and for preliminary investigation about how to fix
it. As before, back-patch to v16.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1tGn4j-0003zi-MP@gemulon.postgresql.org
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If we are pulling up a subquery that's under an outer join, and
the subquery's target list contains a strict expression that uses
both a subquery variable and a lateral-reference variable, it's okay
to pull up the expression without wrapping it in a PlaceHolderVar.
That's safe because if the subquery variable is forced to NULL
by the outer join, the expression result will come out as NULL too,
so we don't have to force that outcome by evaluating the expression
below the outer join. It'd be correct to wrap in a PHV, but that can
lead to very significantly worse plans, since we'd then have to use
a nestloop plan to pass down the lateral reference to where the
expression will be evaluated.
However, when we do that, we should not mark the lateral reference
variable as being nulled by the outer join, because it isn't after
we pull up the expression in this way. So the marking logic added
by cb8e50a4a was incorrect in this detail, leading to "wrong
varnullingrels" errors from the consistency-checking logic in
setrefs.c. It seems to be sufficient to just not mark lateral
references at all in this case. (I have a nagging feeling that more
complexity may be needed in cases where there are several levels of
outer join, but some attempts to break it with that didn't succeed.)
Per report from Bertrand Mamasam. Back-patch to v16, as the previous
patch was.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ67_UA_EVrqiFXJu9XK50baEpH=ofEPJswa2kFxg6xuSw-ww@mail.gmail.com
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Many of them just seem to have been copied around for no real reason.
Their presence causes (small) risks of hiding actual type mismatches
or silently discarding qualifiers
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/461ea37c-8b58-43b4-9736-52884e862820@eisentraut.org
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A few comments contained duplicate "the" in sentences, fix by removing
one occurrence.
Author: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2aEEiPwGJmPdzBxROVvs8n75yCjKz4K1f1B2TdWpzxTA@mail.gmail.com
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If a MERGE command contains WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE actions, the
source relation appears on the outer side of the join. Thus, any Vars
referring to the source in the merge join condition, actions, and
RETURNING list should be marked as nullable by the join, since they
are used in the ModifyTable node above the join. Note that this only
applies to the copy of join condition used in the executor to
distinguish MATCHED from NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE cases. Vars in the
original join condition, inside the join node itself, should not be
marked.
Failure to correctly mark these Vars led to a "wrong varnullingrels"
error in the final stage of query planning, in some circumstances. We
happened to get away without this in all previous tests, since they
all involved a ModifyTable node directly on top of the join node, so
that the top plan targetlist coincided with the output of the join,
and the varnullingrels check was more lax. However, if another plan
node, such as a one-time filter Result node, gets inserted between the
ModifyTable node and the join node, then a stricter check is applied,
which fails.
Per bug #18634 from Alexander Lakhin. Thanks to Tom Lane and Richard
Guo for review and analysis.
Back-patch to v17, where WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE support was added
to MERGE.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18634-db5299c937877f2b%40postgresql.org
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If a MERGE command contains WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE actions, the
merge join condition is used by the executor to distinguish MATCHED
from NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE cases. However, this qual is executed using
the output from the join subplan node, which nulls the output from the
source relation in the not matched case, and so the result may be
incorrect if the join condition is "non-strict" -- for example,
something like "src.col IS NOT DISTINCT FROM tgt.col".
Fix this by enhancing the join recheck condition with an additional
"src IS NOT NULL" check, so that it does the right thing when
evaluated using the output from the join subplan.
Noted by Tom Lane while investigating bug #18634 from Alexander
Lakhin.
Back-patch to v17, where WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE support was added
to MERGE.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18634-db5299c937877f2b%40postgresql.org
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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
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Commit 2489d76c4 removed some logic from pullup_replace_vars()
that avoided wrapping a PlaceHolderVar around a pulled-up
subquery output expression if the expression could be proven
to go to NULL anyway (because it contained Vars or PHVs of the
pulled-up relation and did not contain non-strict constructs).
But removing that logic turns out to cause performance regressions
in some cases, because the extra PHV blocks subexpression folding,
and will do so even if outer-join reduction later turns it into a
no-op with no phnullingrels bits. This can for example prevent
an expression from being matched to an index.
The reason for always adding a PHV was to ensure we had someplace
to put the varnullingrels marker bits of the Var being replaced.
However, it turns out we can optimize in exactly the same cases that
the previous code did, because we can instead attach the needed
varnullingrels bits to the contained Var(s)/PHV(s).
This is not a complete solution --- it would be even better if we
could remove PHVs after reducing them to no-ops. It doesn't look
practical to back-patch such an improvement, but this change seems
safe and at least gets rid of the performance-regression cases.
Per complaint from Nikhil Raj. Back-patch to v16 where the
problem appeared.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAG1ps1xvnTZceKK24OUfMKLPvDP2vjT-d+F2AOCWbw_v3KeEgg@mail.gmail.com
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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
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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
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Code quality improvement for 0294df2f1f84.
Aleksander Alekseev, reviewed by Richard Guo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TMsiaV5urU_Pq6zJ2tXPDwk69-NKVh4AMN5XrRiM7N%2BGA%40mail.gmail.com
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Commit 2ed8f9a01 intended to institute a policy that if a
RangeTblFunction has a coldeflist, then the function return type is
certainly RECORD, and we should use the coldeflist as the source of
truth about what the columns of the record type are. When the
original function has been folded to a constant, inspection of the
constant might give a different answer. This situation will lead to
a tuple-type-mismatch error at execution, but up until that point we
need to consistently believe the coldeflist, or we'll have problems
from different bits of code reaching different conclusions.
expandRTE didn't get that memo though, and would try to produce a
tupdesc based on the constant in this situation, leading to an
assertion failure. (Desultory testing suggests that non-assert
builds often manage to give the expected error, although I also
saw a "cache lookup failed for type 0" error, and it seems at
least possible that a crash could happen.)
Some other callers of get_expr_result_type and get_expr_result_tupdesc
were also being incautious about this. While none of them seem to
have actual bugs, they're working harder than necessary in this case,
besides which it seems safest to have an explicit policy of not using
those functions on an RTE with a coldeflist. Adjust the code
accordingly, and add commentary to funcapi.c about this policy.
Also fix an obsolete comment that claimed "get_expr_result_type()
doesn't know how to extract type info from a RECORD constant".
That hasn't been true since commit d57534740.
Per bug #18422 from Alexander Lakhin.
As with the previous commit, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18422-89ca86c8eac5246d@postgresql.org
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This allows MERGE commands to include WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE
actions, which operate on rows that exist in the target relation, but
not in the data source. These actions can execute UPDATE, DELETE, or
DO NOTHING sub-commands.
This is in contrast to already-supported WHEN NOT MATCHED actions,
which operate on rows that exist in the data source, but not in the
target relation. To make this distinction clearer, such actions may
now be written as WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET.
Writing WHEN NOT MATCHED without specifying BY SOURCE or BY TARGET is
equivalent to writing WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET.
Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Alvaro Herrera, Ted Yu and Vik Fearing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWqnKGc57Y_JanUBHQXNKcXd7r=0R4NEZUVwP+syRkWbA@mail.gmail.com
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This allows the target relation of MERGE to be an auto-updatable or
trigger-updatable view, and includes support for WITH CHECK OPTION,
security barrier views, and security invoker views.
A trigger-updatable view must have INSTEAD OF triggers for every type
of action (INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE) mentioned in the MERGE command.
An auto-updatable view must not have any INSTEAD OF triggers. Mixing
auto-update and trigger-update actions (i.e., having a partial set of
INSTEAD OF triggers) is not supported.
Rule-updatable views are also not supported, since there is no
rewriter support for non-SELECT rules with MERGE operations.
Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Jian He and Alvaro Herrera.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCVcB1g0nmxuEc-A+gGB0HnfcGQNGYH7gS=7rq0u0zOBXA@mail.gmail.com
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The code for wrapping subquery output expressions in PlaceHolderVars
believed that if the expression already was a PlaceHolderVar, it was
never necessary to wrap that in another one. That's wrong if the
expression is underneath an outer join and involves a lateral
reference to outside that scope: failing to add an additional PHV
risks evaluating the expression at the wrong place and hence not
forcing it to null when the outer join should do so. This is an
oversight in commit 9e7e29c75, which added logic to forcibly wrap
lateral-reference Vars in PlaceHolderVars, but didn't see that the
adjacent case for PlaceHolderVars needed the same treatment.
The test case we have for this doesn't fail before 4be058fe9, but now
that I see the problem I wonder if it is possible to demonstrate
related errors before that. That's moot though, since all such
branches are out of support.
Per bug #18284 from Holger Reise. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18284-47505a20c23647f8@postgresql.org
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Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
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I removed the delay_upper_joins mechanism in commit b448f1c8d,
reasoning that it was only needed when we have a single-table
(SELECT ... WHERE) as the immediate RHS child of a left join,
and we could get rid of that by hoisting the WHERE condition into
the parent join's quals. However that new code missed a case:
we could have "foo LEFT JOIN ((SELECT ... WHERE) LEFT JOIN bar)",
and if the two left joins can be commuted then we now have the
problematic query shape. We can fix this too easily enough,
by allowing the syntactically-lower left join to pass through
its parent qual location pointer recursively. That lets
prepjointree.c discard the SELECT by temporarily hoisting the
WHERE condition into the ancestor join's qual.
Per bug #17978 from Zuming Jiang.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17978-12f3d93a55297266@postgresql.org
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Merge and hash joins can support antijoin with the non-nullable input
on the right, using very simple combinations of their existing logic
for right join and anti join. This gives the planner more freedom
about how to order the join. It's particularly useful for hash join,
since we may now have the option to hash the smaller table instead
of the larger.
Richard Guo, reviewed by Ronan Dunklau and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48xh9hMzXzSy3VaPzGAz+fkxXXTUbCLohX1_L8THFRm2Q@mail.gmail.com
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EquivalenceClasses are now understood as applying within a "join
domain", which is a set of inner-joined relations (possibly underneath
an outer join). We no longer need to treat an EC from below an outer
join as a second-class citizen.
I have hopes of eventually being able to treat outer-join clauses via
EquivalenceClasses, by means of only applying deductions within the
EC's join domain. There are still problems in the way of that, though,
so for now the reconsider_outer_join_clause logic is still here.
I haven't been able to get rid of RestrictInfo.is_pushed_down either,
but I wonder if that could be recast using JoinDomains.
I had to hack one test case in postgres_fdw.sql to make it still test
what it was meant to, because postgres_fdw is inconsistent about
how it deals with quals containing non-shippable expressions; see
https://postgr.es/m/1691374.1671659838@sss.pgh.pa.us. That should
be improved, but I don't think it's within the scope of this patch
series.
Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Remove RestrictInfo.nullable_relids, along with a good deal of
infrastructure that calculated it. One use-case for it was in
join_clause_is_movable_to, but we can now replace that usage with
a check to see if the clause's relids include any outer join
that can null the target relation. The other use-case was in
join_clause_is_movable_into, but that test can just be dropped
entirely now that the clause's relids include outer joins.
Furthermore, join_clause_is_movable_into should now be
accurate enough that it will accept anything returned by
generate_join_implied_equalities, so we can restore the Assert
that was diked out in commit 95f4e59c3.
Remove the outerjoin_delayed mechanism. We needed this before to
prevent quals from getting evaluated below outer joins that should
null some of their vars. Now that we consider varnullingrels while
placing quals, that's taken care of automatically, so throw the
whole thing away.
Teach remove_useless_result_rtes to also remove useless FromExprs.
Having done that, the delay_upper_joins flag serves no purpose any
more and we can remove it, largely reverting 11086f2f2.
Use constant TRUE for "dummy" clauses when throwing back outer joins.
This improves on a hack I introduced in commit 6a6522529. If we
have a left-join clause l.x = r.y, and a WHERE clause l.x = constant,
we generate r.y = constant and then don't really have a need for the
join clause. But we must throw the join clause back anyway after
marking it redundant, so that the join search heuristics won't think
this is a clauseless join and avoid it. That was a kluge introduced
under time pressure, and after looking at it I thought of a better
way: let's just introduce constant-TRUE "join clauses" instead,
and get rid of them at the end. This improves the generated plans for
such cases by not having to test a redundant join clause. We can also
get rid of the ugly hack used to mark such clauses as redundant for
selectivity estimation.
Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Traditionally we used the same Var struct to represent the value
of a table column everywhere in parse and plan trees. This choice
predates our support for SQL outer joins, and it's really a pretty
bad idea with outer joins, because the Var's value can depend on
where it is in the tree: it might go to NULL above an outer join.
So expression nodes that are equal() per equalfuncs.c might not
represent the same value, which is a huge correctness hazard for
the planner.
To improve this, decorate Var nodes with a bitmapset showing
which outer joins (identified by RTE indexes) may have nulled
them at the point in the parse tree where the Var appears.
This allows us to trust that equal() Vars represent the same value.
A certain amount of klugery is still needed to cope with cases
where we re-order two outer joins, but it's possible to make it
work without sacrificing that core principle. PlaceHolderVars
receive similar decoration for the same reason.
In the planner, we include these outer join bitmapsets into the relids
that an expression is considered to depend on, and in consequence also
add outer-join relids to the relids of join RelOptInfos. This allows
us to correctly perceive whether an expression can be calculated above
or below a particular outer join.
This change affects FDWs that want to plan foreign joins. They *must*
follow suit when labeling foreign joins in order to match with the
core planner, but for many purposes (if postgres_fdw is any guide)
they'd prefer to consider only base relations within the join.
To support both requirements, redefine ForeignScan.fs_relids as
base+OJ relids, and add a new field fs_base_relids that's set up by
the core planner.
Large though it is, this commit just does the minimum necessary to
install the new mechanisms and get check-world passing again.
Follow-up patches will perform some cleanup. (The README additions
and comments mention some stuff that will appear in the follow-up.)
Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Avoid explicitly grouping by columns that we know are redundant
for sorting, for example we need group by only one of x and y in
SELECT ... WHERE x = y GROUP BY x, y
This comes up more often than you might think, as shown by the
changes in the regression tests. It's nearly free to detect too,
since we are just piggybacking on the existing logic that detects
redundant pathkeys. (In some of the existing plans that change,
it's visible that a sort step preceding the grouping step already
didn't bother to sort by the redundant column, making the old plan
a bit silly-looking.)
To do this, build processed_groupClause and processed_distinctClause
lists that omit any provably-redundant sort items, and consult those
not the originals where relevant. This means that within the
planner, one should usually consult root->processed_groupClause or
root->processed_distinctClause if one wants to know which columns
are to be grouped on; but to check whether grouping or distinct-ing
is happening at all, check non-NIL-ness of parse->groupClause or
parse->distinctClause. This is comparable to longstanding rules
about handling the HAVING clause, so I don't think it'll be a huge
maintenance problem.
nodeAgg.c also needs minor mods, because it's now possible to generate
AGG_PLAIN and AGG_SORTED Agg nodes with zero grouping columns.
Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo and David Rowley for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/185315.1672179489@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Backpatch-through: 11
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perform_pullup_replace_vars() knows how to scan the whole parent
query tree when we are replacing Vars during a subquery flattening
operation. However, for the specific case of flattening a
UNION ALL leaf query, that's mostly wasted work: the only place
where relevant Vars could exist is in the AppendRelInfo that we
just made for this leaf. Teaching perform_pullup_replace_vars()
to just deal with that and exit is worthwhile because, if we have
N such subqueries to pull up, we were spending O(N^2) work uselessly
mutating the AppendRelInfos for all the other subqueries.
While we're at it, avoid calling substitute_phv_relids if there are no
PlaceHolderVars, and remove an obsolete check of parse->hasSubLinks.
Andrey Lepikhov and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/703c09a2-08f3-d2ec-b33d-dbecd62428b8@postgrespro.ru
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Andrey Lepikhov demonstrated a case where we spend an unreasonable
amount of time in pull_up_subqueries(). Not only is that recursing
with no explicit check for stack overrun, but the code seems not
interruptable by control-C. Let's stick a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS
there, along with sprinkling some stack depth checks.
An actual fix for the excessive time consumption seems a bit
risky to back-patch; but this isn't, so let's do so.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/703c09a2-08f3-d2ec-b33d-dbecd62428b8@postgrespro.ru
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9d9c02ccd added code to allow WindowAgg to take some shortcuts when a
monotonic WindowFunc reached some value that it could never come back
from due to the function's monotonic nature. That commit added a
runCondition field to WindowClause to store the condition which, when it
becomes false we can start taking shortcuts in nodeWindowAgg.c.
Here we fix an issue where subquery pullups didn't properly update the
runCondition to update the Vars to properly reference the new query level.
Here we also add a missing call to preprocess_expression() for the
WindowClause's runCondtion. The WindowFuncs in the targetlist will have
had this process done, so we must also do it for the WindowFuncs in the
runCondition so that they can be correctly found in the targetlist
during setrefs.c
Bug: #17709
Reported-by: Alexey Makhmutov
Author: Richard Guo, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17709-4f557160e3e8ee9a@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 15, where 9d9c02ccd was introduced
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Currently, information about the permissions to be checked on relations
mentioned in a query is stored in their range table entries. So the
executor must scan the entire range table looking for relations that
need to have permissions checked. This can make the permission checking
part of the executor initialization needlessly expensive when many
inheritance children are present in the range range. While the
permissions need not be checked on the individual child relations, the
executor still must visit every range table entry to filter them out.
This commit moves the permission checking information out of the range
table entries into a new plan node called RTEPermissionInfo. Every
top-level (inheritance "root") RTE_RELATION entry in the range table
gets one and a list of those is maintained alongside the range table.
This new list is initialized by the parser when initializing the range
table. The rewriter can add more entries to it as rules/views are
expanded. Finally, the planner combines the lists of the individual
subqueries into one flat list that is passed to the executor for
checking.
To make it quick to find the RTEPermissionInfo entry belonging to a
given relation, RangeTblEntry gets a new Index field 'perminfoindex'
that stores the corresponding RTEPermissionInfo's index in the query's
list of the latter.
ExecutorCheckPerms_hook has gained another List * argument; the
signature is now:
typedef bool (*ExecutorCheckPerms_hook_type) (List *rangeTable,
List *rtePermInfos,
bool ereport_on_violation);
The first argument is no longer used by any in-core uses of the hook,
but we leave it in place because there may be other implementations that
do. Implementations should likely scan the rtePermInfos list to
determine which operations to allow or deny.
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGjJDmUhDSfv-U2qhKJjt9ST7Xh9JXC_irsAQ1TAUsJYg@mail.gmail.com
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The JOIN_SEMI case Assert'ed that there are no PlaceHolderVars that
need to be evaluated at the semijoin's RHS, which is wrong because
there could be some in the semijoin's qual condition. However, there
could not be any references further up than that, and within the qual
there is not any way that such a PHV could have gone to null yet, so
we don't really need the PHV and there is no need to avoid making the
RHS-removal optimization. The upshot is that there's no actual bug
in production code, and we ought to just remove this misguided Assert.
While we're here, also drop the JOIN_RIGHT case, which is dead code
because reduce_outer_joins() already got rid of JOIN_RIGHT.
Per bug #17700 from Xin Wen. Uselessness of the JOIN_RIGHT case
pointed out by Richard Guo. Back-patch to v12 where this code
was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17700-2b5c10d917c30687@postgresql.org
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Implement a data structure that is a List of Bitmapsets, which is
essentially a 2-D boolean array except that the rows need not all
be the same width. Operations such as union and intersection are
meaningful for these, just as they are for Bitmapsets. Eventually
we might build many of the same operations that we have written for
Bitmapsets, but for the first use-case we just need a few.
That first use-case is for antijoin detection: reduce_outer_joins
needs to find the set of Vars that are certain to be non-null in a
successfully joined (not null-extended) left join row, and also
find the set of Vars subject to higher-level IS NULL constraints,
and intersect them. We had been doing this by making Lists of
the Var nodes and then using list_intersect, which works but is
pretty inefficient compared to a bitmapset-like intersection.
Potentially it's O(N^2) if there are a lot of Vars involved,
which fortunately there generally aren't; still it's not great.
Moreover, that method requires the Vars of interest to be exactly
equal() in the join condition and the upper IS NULL condition,
which is problematic for my WIP patch that labels Vars according
to which outer joins have possibly nulled them.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/892228.1668437838@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-mvPPCJ1W6iK6dD5HiNwoJdi6mZp=-7mE8N9Sh+cd0tQ@mail.gmail.com
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We weren't actually using the passed-down list for anything, other
than computing the new value to be passed down further. I (tgl)
probably had the idea that we'd need this data eventually; but
no use-case has emerged in a good long while, so let's just stop
expending useless cycles here.
Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48KLy9aBb=sZ5MoNmnqAcGHaW_JTGWLCgoE_uMW7S6C-A@mail.gmail.com
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Up to now, callers of find_placeholder_info() were required to pass
a flag indicating if it's OK to make a new PlaceHolderInfo. That'd
be fine if the callers had free choice, but they do not. Once we
begin deconstruct_jointree() it's no longer OK to make more PHIs;
while callers before that always want to create a PHI if it's not
there already. So there's no freedom of action, only the opportunity
to cause bugs by creating PHIs too late. Let's get rid of that in
favor of adding a state flag PlannerInfo.placeholdersFrozen, which
we can set at the point where it's no longer OK to make more PHIs.
This patch also simplifies a couple of call sites that were using
complicated logic to avoid calling find_placeholder_info() as much
as possible. Now that that lookup is O(1) thanks to the previous
commit, the extra bitmap manipulations are probably a net negative.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1405792.1660677844@sss.pgh.pa.us
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MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a
source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can
conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows -- a task that would otherwise
require multiple PL statements. For example,
MERGE INTO target AS t
USING source AS s
ON t.tid = s.sid
WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN
UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta
WHEN MATCHED THEN
DELETE
WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN
INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
DO NOTHING;
MERGE works with regular tables, partitioned tables and inheritance
hierarchies, including column and row security enforcement, as well as
support for row and statement triggers and transition tables therein.
MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful
for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference
to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there
is some overhead. MERGE can be used from PL/pgSQL.
MERGE does not support targetting updatable views or foreign tables, and
RETURNING clauses are not allowed either. These limitations are likely
fixable with sufficient effort. Rewrite rules are also not supported,
but it's not clear that we'd want to support them.
Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231134736.GA25392@alvherre.pgsql
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If a RowExpr is marked as returning a named composite type, we aren't
going to consult its colnames list; we'll use the attribute names
shown for the type in pg_attribute. Hence, skip storing that list,
to save a few nanoseconds when copying the expression tree around.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2950001.1638729947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Backpatch-through: 10
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Up to now the size of a query's rangetable has been limited by the
constants INNER_VAR et al, which mustn't be equal to any real
rangetable index. 65000 doubtless seemed like enough for anybody,
and it still is orders of magnitude larger than the number of joins
we can realistically handle. However, we need a rangetable entry
for each child partition that is (or might be) processed by a query.
Queries with a few thousand partitions are getting more realistic,
so that the day when that limit becomes a problem is in sight,
even if it's not here yet. Hence, let's raise the limit.
Rather than just increase the values of INNER_VAR et al, this patch
adopts the approach of making them small negative values, so that
rangetables could theoretically become as long as INT_MAX.
The bulk of the patch is concerned with changing Var.varno and some
related variables from "Index" (unsigned int) to plain "int". This
is basically cosmetic, with little actual effect other than to help
debuggers print their values nicely. As such, I've only bothered
with changing places that could actually see INNER_VAR et al, which
the parser and most of the planner don't. We do have to be careful
in places that are performing less/greater comparisons on varnos,
but there are very few such places, other than the IS_SPECIAL_VARNO
macro itself.
A notable side effect of this patch is that while it used to be
possible to add INNER_VAR et al to a Bitmapset, that will now
draw an error. I don't see any likelihood that it wouldn't be a
bug to include these fake varnos in a bitmapset of real varnos,
so I think this is all to the good.
Although this touches outfuncs/readfuncs, I don't think a catversion
bump is required, since stored rules would never contain Vars
with these fake varnos.
Andrey Lepikhov and Tom Lane, after a suggestion by Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/43c7f2f5-1e27-27aa-8c65-c91859d15190@postgrespro.ru
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