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2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-04Label CVS tip as 8.0devel instead of 7.5devel. Adjust various commentsTom Lane
and documentation to reference 8.0 instead of 7.5.
2004-06-01Desultory de-FastList-ification. RelOptInfo.reltargetlist is back toTom Lane
being a plain List.
2004-05-30Use the new List API function names throughout the backend, and disable theNeil Conway
list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.
2004-05-26Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway
In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
2004-04-25Remove the last traces of Joe Hellerstein's "xfunc" optimization. PatchNeil Conway
from Alvaro Herrera. Also, removed lispsort.c, since it is no longer used.
2004-03-29Use fuzzy comparison of path costs in add_path(), so that paths with theTom Lane
same path keys and nearly equivalent costs will be considered redundant. The exact nature of the fuzziness may get adjusted later based on current discussions, but no one has shot a hole in the basic idea yet ...
2004-03-02Teach is_distinct_query to recognize that GROUP BY forces a subquery'sTom Lane
output to be distinct, if all the GROUP BY columns appear in the output. Per suggestion from Dennis Haney.
2004-02-03Rename SortMem and VacuumMem to work_mem and maintenance_work_mem.Tom Lane
Make btree index creation and initial validation of foreign-key constraints use maintenance_work_mem rather than work_mem as their memory limit. Add some code to guc.c to allow these variables to be referenced by their old names in SHOW and SET commands, for backwards compatibility.
2004-01-19Recognize that IN subqueries return already-unique results if they useTom Lane
UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT (without ALL). This adds on to the previous optimization for subqueries using DISTINCT.
2004-01-05Adjust indexscan planning logic to keep RestrictInfo nodes associatedTom Lane
with index qual clauses in the Path representation. This saves a little work during createplan and (probably more importantly) allows reuse of cached selectivity estimates during indexscan planning. Also fix latent bug: wrong plan would have been generated for a 'special operator' used in a nestloop-inner-indexscan join qual, because the special operator would not have gotten into the list of quals to recheck. This bug is only latent because at present the special-operator code could never trigger on a join qual, but sooner or later someone will want to do it.
2004-01-05Improve UniquePath logic to detect the case where the input is alreadyTom Lane
known unique (eg, it is a SELECT DISTINCT ... subquery), and not do a redundant unique-ification step.
2004-01-05Add the ability to extract OR indexscan conditions from OR-of-ANDTom Lane
join conditions in which each OR subclause includes a constraint on the same relation. This implements the other useful side-effect of conversion to CNF format, without its unpleasant side-effects. As per pghackers discussion of a few weeks ago.
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2003-08-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2003-07-25Error message editing in backend/optimizer, backend/rewrite.Tom Lane
2003-07-14Make cost estimates for SubqueryScan more realistic: charge cpu_tuple_costTom Lane
for each row processed, and don't forget the evaluation cost of any restriction clauses attached to the node. Per discussion with Greg Stark.
2003-06-29Restructure building of join relation targetlists so that a join planTom Lane
node emits only those vars that are actually needed above it in the plan tree. (There were comments in the code suggesting that this was done at some point in the dim past, but for a long time we have just made join nodes emit everything that either input emitted.) Aside from being marginally more efficient, this fixes the problem noted by Peter Eisentraut where a join above an IN-implemented-as-join might fail, because the subplan targetlist constructed in the latter case didn't meet the expectation of including everything. Along the way, fix some places that were O(N^2) in the targetlist length. This is not all the trouble spots for wide queries by any means, but it's a step forward.
2003-06-15Adjust nestloop-with-inner-indexscan plan generation so that we catchTom Lane
some cases of redundant clauses that were formerly not caught. We have to special-case this because the clauses involved never get attached to the same join restrictlist and so the existing logic does not notice that they are redundant.
2003-05-26Cause CHAR(n) to TEXT or VARCHAR conversion to automatically strip trailingTom Lane
blanks, in hopes of reducing the surprise factor for newbies. Remove redundant operators for VARCHAR (it depends wholly on TEXT operations now). Clean up resolution of ambiguous operators/functions to avoid surprising choices for domains: domains are treated as equivalent to their base types and binary-coercibility is no longer considered a preference item when choosing among multiple operators/functions. IsBinaryCoercible now correctly reflects the notion that you need *only* relabel the type to get from type A to type B: that is, a domain is binary-coercible to its base type, but not vice versa. Various marginal cleanup, including merging the essentially duplicate resolution code in parse_func.c and parse_oper.c. Improve opr_sanity regression test to understand about binary compatibility (using pg_cast), and fix a couple of small errors in the catalogs revealed thereby. Restructure "special operator" handling to fetch operators via index opclasses rather than hardwiring assumptions about names (cleans up the pattern_ops stuff a little).
2003-02-15Teach planner how to propagate pathkeys from sub-SELECTs in FROM up toTom Lane
the outer query. (The implementation is a bit klugy, but it would take nontrivial restructuring to make it nicer, which this is probably not worth.) This avoids unnecessary sort steps in examples like SELECT foo,count(*) FROM (SELECT ... ORDER BY foo,bar) sub GROUP BY foo which means there is now a reasonable technique for controlling the order of inputs to custom aggregates, even in the grouping case.
2003-02-08Replace planner's representation of relation sets, per pghackers discussion.Tom Lane
Instead of Lists of integers, we now store variable-length bitmap sets. This should be faster as well as less error-prone.
2003-01-27Upgrade cost estimation for joins, per discussion with Bradley Baetz.Tom Lane
Try to model the effect of rescanning input tuples in mergejoins; account for JOIN_IN short-circuiting where appropriate. Also, recognize that mergejoin and hashjoin clauses may now be more than single operator calls, so we have to charge appropriate execution costs.
2003-01-22Implement choice between hash-based and sort-based grouping for doingTom Lane
DISTINCT processing on the output of an IN sub-select.
2003-01-20IN clauses appearing at top level of WHERE can now be handled as joins.Tom Lane
There are two implementation techniques: the executor understands a new JOIN_IN jointype, which emits at most one matching row per left-hand row, or the result of the IN's sub-select can be fed through a DISTINCT filter and then joined as an ordinary relation. Along the way, some minor code cleanup in the optimizer; notably, break out most of the jointree-rearrangement preprocessing in planner.c and put it in a new file prep/prepjointree.c.
2002-12-05Phase 1 of read-only-plans project: cause executor state nodes to pointTom Lane
to plan nodes, not vice-versa. All executor state nodes now inherit from struct PlanState. Copying of plan trees has been simplified by not storing a list of SubPlans in Plan nodes (eliminating duplicate links). The executor still needs such a list, but it can build it during ExecutorStart since it has to scan the plan tree anyway. No initdb forced since no stored-on-disk structures changed, but you will need a full recompile because of node-numbering changes.
2002-11-30Be more realistic about plans involving Materialize nodes: take theirTom Lane
cost into account while planning.
2002-11-30Upgrade planner and executor to allow multiple hash keys for a hash join,Tom Lane
instead of only one. This should speed up planning (only one hash path to consider for a given pair of relations) as well as allow more effective hashing, when there are multiple hashable joinclauses.
2002-11-24Restructure planning of nestloop inner indexscans so that the set of usableTom Lane
joinclauses is determined accurately for each join. Formerly, the code only considered joinclauses that used all of the rels from the outer side of the join; thus for example FROM (a CROSS JOIN b) JOIN c ON (c.f1 = a.x AND c.f2 = b.y) could not exploit a two-column index on c(f1,f2), since neither of the qual clauses would be in the joininfo list it looked in. The new code does this correctly, and also is able to eliminate redundant clauses, thus fixing the problem noted 24-Oct-02 by Hans-Jürgen Schönig.
2002-11-06First phase of implementing hash-based grouping/aggregation. An AGG planTom Lane
node now does its own grouping of the input rows, and has no need for a preceding GROUP node in the plan pipeline. This allows elimination of the misnamed tuplePerGroup option for GROUP, and actually saves more code in nodeGroup.c than it costs in nodeAgg.c, as well as being presumably faster. Restructure the API of query_planner so that we do not commit to using a sorted or unsorted plan in query_planner; instead grouping_planner makes the decision. (Right now it isn't any smarter than query_planner was, but that will change as soon as it has the option to select a hash- based aggregation step.) Despite all the hackery, no initdb needed since only in-memory node types changed.
2002-06-20Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian
2002-05-12First pass at set-returning-functions in FROM, by Joe Conway withTom Lane
some kibitzing from Tom Lane. Not everything works yet, and there's no documentation or regression test, but let's commit this so Joe doesn't need to cope with tracking changes in so many files ...
2001-10-25pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regressionBruce Momjian
tests pass.
2001-07-16Partial indexes work again, courtesy of Martijn van Oosterhout.Tom Lane
Note: I didn't force an initdb, figuring that one today was enough. However, there is a new function in pg_proc.h, and pg_dump won't be able to dump partial indexes until you add that function.
2001-06-05Further work on making use of new statistics in planner. Adjust APIsTom Lane
of costsize.c routines to pass Query root, so that costsize can figure more things out by itself and not be so dependent on its callers to tell it everything it needs to know. Use selectivity of hash or merge clause to estimate number of tuples processed internally in these joins (this is more useful than it would've been before, since eqjoinsel is somewhat more accurate than before).
2001-05-20Modify optimizer data structures so that IndexOptInfo lists built forTom Lane
create_index_paths are not immediately discarded, but are available for subsequent planner work. This allows avoiding redundant syscache lookups in several places. Change interface to operator selectivity estimation procedures to allow faster and more flexible estimation. Initdb forced due to change of pg_proc entries for selectivity functions!
2001-05-07Rewrite of planner statistics-gathering code. ANALYZE is now available asTom Lane
a separate statement (though it can still be invoked as part of VACUUM, too). pg_statistic redesigned to be more flexible about what statistics are stored. ANALYZE now collects a list of several of the most common values, not just one, plus a histogram (not just the min and max values). Random sampling is used to make the process reasonably fast even on very large tables. The number of values and histogram bins collected is now user-settable via an ALTER TABLE command. There is more still to do; the new stats are not being used everywhere they could be in the planner. But the remaining changes for this project should be localized, and the behavior is already better than before. A not-very-related change is that sorting now makes use of btree comparison routines if it can find one, rather than invoking '<' twice.
2001-03-22pgindent run. Make it all clean.Bruce Momjian
2001-01-24Change Copyright from PostgreSQL, Inc to PostgreSQL Global Development Group.Bruce Momjian
2000-12-14Planner speedup hacking. Avoid saving useless pathkeys, so that pathTom Lane
comparison does not consider paths different when they differ only in uninteresting aspects of sort order. (We had a special case of this consideration for indexscans already, but generalize it to apply to ordered join paths too.) Be stricter about what is a canonical pathkey to allow faster pathkey comparison. Cache canonical pathkeys and dispersion stats for left and right sides of a RestrictInfo's clause, to avoid repeated computation. Total speedup will depend on number of tables in a query, but I see about 4x speedup of planning phase for a sample seven-table query.
2000-11-12Restructure handling of inheritance queries so that they work with outerTom Lane
joins, and clean things up a good deal at the same time. Append plan node no longer hacks on rangetable at runtime --- instead, all child tables are given their own RT entries during planning. Concept of multiple target tables pushed up into execMain, replacing bug-prone implementation within nodeAppend. Planner now supports generating Append plans for inheritance sets either at the top of the plan (the old way) or at the bottom. Expanding at the bottom is appropriate for tables used as sources, since they may appear inside an outer join; but we must still expand at the top when the target of an UPDATE or DELETE is an inheritance set, because we actually need a different targetlist and junkfilter for each target table in that case. Fortunately a target table can't be inside an outer join... Bizarre mutual recursion between union_planner and prepunion.c is gone --- in fact, union_planner doesn't really have much to do with union queries anymore, so I renamed it grouping_planner.
2000-10-05Add proofreader's changes to docs.Bruce Momjian
Fix misspelling of disbursion to dispersion.
2000-09-29Subselects in FROM clause, per ISO syntax: FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] alias.Tom Lane
(Don't forget that an alias is required.) Views reimplemented as expanding to subselect-in-FROM. Grouping, aggregates, DISTINCT in views actually work now (he says optimistically). No UNION support in subselects/views yet, but I have some ideas about that. Rule-related permissions checking moved out of rewriter and into executor. INITDB REQUIRED!
2000-09-12First cut at full support for OUTER JOINs. There are still a few looseTom Lane
ends to clean up (see my message of same date to pghackers), but mostly it works. INITDB REQUIRED!
2000-05-30Remove unused include files. Do not touch /port or includes used by defines.Bruce Momjian
2000-04-12Ye-old pgindent run. Same 4-space tabs.Bruce Momjian
2000-03-22Repair logic flaw in cost estimator: cost_nestloop() was estimating CPUTom Lane
costs using the inner path's parent->rows count as the number of tuples processed per inner scan iteration. This is wrong when we are using an inner indexscan with indexquals based on join clauses, because the rows count in a Relation node reflects the selectivity of the restriction clauses for that rel only. Upshot was that if join clause was very selective, we'd drastically overestimate the true cost of the join. Fix is to calculate correct output-rows estimate for an inner indexscan when the IndexPath node is created and save it in the path node. Change of path node doesn't require initdb, since path nodes don't appear in saved rules.
2000-02-18Plug some more memory leaks in the planner. It still leaks like a sieve,Tom Lane
but this is as good as it'll get for this release...
2000-02-15New cost model for planning, incorporating a penalty for random pageTom Lane
accesses versus sequential accesses, a (very crude) estimate of the effects of caching on random page accesses, and cost to evaluate WHERE- clause expressions. Export critical parameters for this model as SET variables. Also, create SET variables for the planner's enable flags (enable_seqscan, enable_indexscan, etc) so that these can be controlled more conveniently than via PGOPTIONS. Planner now estimates both startup cost (cost before retrieving first tuple) and total cost of each path, so it can optimize queries with LIMIT on a reasonable basis by interpolating between these costs. Same facility is a win for EXISTS(...) subqueries and some other cases. Redesign pathkey representation to achieve a major speedup in planning (I saw as much as 5X on a 10-way join); also minor changes in planner to reduce memory consumption by recycling discarded Path nodes and not constructing unnecessary lists. Minor cleanups to display more-plausible costs in some cases in EXPLAIN output. Initdb forced by change in interface to index cost estimation functions.