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2024-06-11Fix infer_arbiter_indexes() to not assume resultRelation is 1.Tom Lane
infer_arbiter_indexes failed to renumber varnos in index expressions or predicates that it got from the catalogs. This escaped detection up to now because the stored varnos in such trees will be 1, and an INSERT's result relation is usually the first rangetable entry, so that that was fine. However, in cases such as inserting through an updatable view, it's not fine, leading to failure to match the expressions to the query with ensuing "there is no unique or exclusion constraint matching the ON CONFLICT specification" errors. Fix by copy-and-paste from get_relation_info(). Per bug #18502 from Michael Wang. Back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18502-545b53f5b81e54e0@postgresql.org
2024-04-16Fix generation of EC join conditions at the wrong plan level.Tom Lane
get_baserel_parampathinfo previously assumed without checking that the results of generate_join_implied_equalities "necessarily satisfy join_clause_is_movable_into". This turns out to be wrong in the presence of outer joins, because the generated clauses could include Vars that mustn't be evaluated below a relevant outer join. That led to applying clauses at the wrong plan level and possibly getting incorrect query results. We must check each clause's nullable_relids, and really the right thing to do is test join_clause_is_movable_into. However, trying to fix it that way exposes an oversight in equivclass.c: it wasn't careful about marking join clauses for appendrel children with the correct clause_relids. That caused the modified get_baserel_parampathinfo code to reject some clauses it still needs to accept. (See parallel commit for HEAD/v16 for more commentary about that.) Per bug #18429 from BenoƮt Ryder. This misbehavior existed for a long time before commit 2489d76c4, so patch v12-v15 this way. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18429-8982d4a348cc86c6@postgresql.org
2024-04-15Fix type-checking of RECORD-returning functions in FROM, redux.Tom Lane
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
2024-03-12Fix confusion about the return rowtype of SQL-language procedures.Tom Lane
There is a very ancient hack in check_sql_fn_retval that allows a single SELECT targetlist entry of composite type to be taken as supplying all the output columns of a function returning composite. (This is grotty and fundamentally ambiguous, but it's really hard to do nested composite-returning functions without it.) As far as I know, that doesn't cause any problems in ordinary functions. It's disastrous for procedures however. All procedures that have any output parameters are labeled with prorettype RECORD, and the CALL code expects it will get back a record with one column per output parameter, regardless of whether any of those parameters is composite. Doing something else leads to an assertion failure or core dump. This is simple enough to fix: we just need to not apply that rule when considering procedures. However, that requires adding another argument to check_sql_fn_retval, which at least in principle might be getting called by external callers. Therefore, in the back branches convert check_sql_fn_retval into an ABI-preserving wrapper around a new function check_sql_fn_retval_ext. Per report from Yahor Yuzefovich. This has been broken since we implemented procedures, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABz5gWHSjj2df6uG0NRiDhZ_Uz=Y8t0FJP-_SVSsRsnrQT76Gg@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-11Backpatch missing check_stack_depth() to some recursive functionsAlexander Korotkov
Backpatch changes from d57b7cc333, 75bcba6cbd to all supported branches per proposal of Egor Chindyaskin. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DE5FD776-A8CD-4378-BCFA-3BF30F1F6D60%40mail.ru
2024-02-23Avoid dangling-pointer problem with partitionwise joins under GEQO.Tom Lane
build_child_join_sjinfo creates a derived SpecialJoinInfo in the short-lived GEQO context, but afterwards the semi_rhs_exprs from that may be used in a UniquePath for a child base relation. This breaks the expectation that all base-relation-level structures are in the planning-lifespan context, leading to use of a dangling pointer with probable ensuing crash later on in create_unique_plan. To fix, copy the expression trees when making a UniquePath. Per bug #18360 from Alexander Lakhin. This has been broken since partitionwise joins were added, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18360-a23caf3157f34e62@postgresql.org
2024-02-01Apply band-aid fix for an oversight in reparameterize_path_by_child.Tom Lane
The path we wish to reparameterize is not a standalone object: in particular, it implicitly references baserestrictinfo clauses in the associated RelOptInfo, and if it's a SampleScan path then there is also the TableSampleClause in the RTE to worry about. Both of those could contain lateral references to the join partner relation, which would need to be modified to refer to its child. Since we aren't doing that, affected queries can give wrong answers, or odd failures such as "variable not found in subplan target list", or executor crashes. But we can't just summarily modify those expressions, because they are shared with other paths for the rel. We'd break things if we modify them and then end up using some non-partitioned-join path. In HEAD, we plan to fix this by postponing reparameterization until create_plan(), when we know that those other paths are no longer of interest, and then adjusting those expressions along with the ones in the path itself. That seems like too big a change for stable branches however. In the back branches, let's just detect whether any troublesome lateral references actually exist in those expressions, and fail reparameterization if so. This will result in not performing a partitioned join in such cases. Given the lack of field complaints, nobody's likely to miss the optimization. Report and patch by Richard Guo. Apply to 12-16 only, since the intended fix for HEAD looks quite different. We're not quite ready to push the HEAD fix, but with back-branch releases coming up soon, it seems wise to get this stopgap fix in place there. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs496+N=UAjOc=rcD3P7B6oJe4rZw08e_TZRUsWbPxZW3Tw@mail.gmail.com
2023-11-16Ensure we preprocess expressions before checking their volatility.Tom Lane
contain_mutable_functions and contain_volatile_functions give reliable answers only after expression preprocessing (specifically eval_const_expressions). Some places understand this, but some did not get the memo --- which is not entirely their fault, because the problem is documented only in places far away from those functions. Introduce wrapper functions that allow doing the right thing easily, and add commentary in hopes of preventing future mistakes from copy-and-paste of code that's only conditionally safe. Two actual bugs of this ilk are fixed here. We failed to preprocess column GENERATED expressions before checking mutability, so that the code could fail to detect the use of a volatile function default-argument expression, or it could reject a polymorphic function that is actually immutable on the datatype of interest. Likewise, column DEFAULT expressions weren't preprocessed before determining if it's safe to apply the attmissingval mechanism. A false negative would just result in an unnecessary table rewrite, but a false positive could allow the attmissingval mechanism to be used in a case where it should not be, resulting in unexpected initial values in a new column. In passing, re-order the steps in ComputePartitionAttrs so that its checks for invalid column references are done before applying expression_planner, rather than after. The previous coding would not complain if a partition expression contains a disallowed column reference that gets optimized away by constant folding, which seems to me to be a behavior we do not want. Per bug #18097 from Jim Keener. Back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18097-ebb179674f22932f@postgresql.org
2023-07-28Disallow replacing joins with scans in problematic cases.Etsuro Fujita
Commit e7cb7ee14, which introduced the infrastructure for FDWs and custom scan providers to replace joins with scans, failed to add support handling of pseudoconstant quals assigned to replaced joins in createplan.c, leading to an incorrect plan without a gating Result node when postgres_fdw replaced a join with such a qual. To fix, we could add the support by 1) modifying the ForeignPath and CustomPath structs to store the list of RestrictInfo nodes to apply to the join, as in JoinPaths, if they represent foreign and custom scans replacing a join with a scan, and by 2) modifying create_scan_plan() in createplan.c to use that list in that case, instead of the baserestrictinfo list, to get pseudoconstant quals assigned to the join; but #1 would cause an ABI break. So fix by modifying the infrastructure to just disallow replacing joins with such quals. Back-patch to all supported branches. Reported by Nishant Sharma. Patch by me, reviewed by Nishant Sharma and Richard Guo. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADrsxdbcN1vejBaf8a%2BQhrZY5PXL-04mCd4GDu6qm6FigDZd6Q%40mail.gmail.com
2023-05-08Handle RLS dependencies in inlined set-returning functions properly.Tom Lane
If an SRF in the FROM clause references a table having row-level security policies, and we inline that SRF into the calling query, we neglected to mark the plan as potentially dependent on which role is executing it. This could lead to later executions in the same session returning or hiding rows that should have been hidden or returned instead. Our thanks to Wolfgang Walther for reporting this problem. Stephen Frost and Tom Lane Security: CVE-2023-2455
2023-04-12Fix parallel-safety marking when moving initplans to another node.Tom Lane
Our policy since commit ab77a5a45 has been that a plan node having any initplans is automatically not parallel-safe. (This could be relaxed, but not today.) clean_up_removed_plan_level neglected this, and could attach initplans to a parallel-safe child plan node without clearing the plan's parallel-safe flag. That could lead to "subplan was not initialized" errors at runtime, in case an initplan referenced another one and only the referencing one got transmitted to parallel workers. The fix in clean_up_removed_plan_level is trivial enough. materialize_finished_plan also moves initplans from one node to another, but it's okay because it already copies the source node's parallel_safe flag. The other place that does this kind of thing is standard_planner's hack to inject a top-level Gather when debug_parallel_query is active. But that's actually dead code given that we're correctly enforcing the "initplans aren't parallel safe" rule, so just replace it with an Assert that there are no initplans. Also improve some related comments. Normally we'd add a regression test case for this sort of bug. The mistake itself is already reached by existing tests, but there is accidentally no visible problem. The only known test case that creates an actual failure seems too indirect and fragile to justify keeping it as a regression test (not least because it fails to fail in v11, though the bug is clearly present there too). Per report from Justin Pryzby. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZDVt6MaNWkRDO1LQ@telsasoft.com
2023-01-03Fix typos in comments, code and documentationMichael Paquier
While on it, newlines are removed from the end of two elog() strings. The others are simple grammar mistakes. One comment in pg_upgrade referred incorrectly to sequences since a7e5457. Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221230231257.GI1153@telsasoft.com Backpatch-through: 11
2022-10-17Guard against table-AM-less relations in planner.Tom Lane
The executor will dump core if it's asked to execute a seqscan on a relation having no table AM, such as a view. While that shouldn't really happen, it's possible to get there via catalog corruption, such as a missing ON SELECT rule. It seems worth installing a defense against that. There are multiple plausible places for such a defense, but I picked the planner's get_relation_info(). Per discussion of bug #17646 from Kui Liu. Back-patch to v12 where the tableam APIs were introduced; in older versions you won't get a SIGSEGV, so it seems less pressing. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17646-70c93cfa40365776@postgresql.org
2022-09-21Suppress more variable-set-but-not-used warnings from clang 15.Tom Lane
Mop up assorted set-but-not-used warnings in the back branches. This includes back-patching relevant fixes from commit 152c9f7b8 the rest of the way, but there are also several cases that did not appear in HEAD. Some of those we'd fixed in a retail way but not back-patched, and others I think just got rewritten out of existence during nearby refactoring. While here, also back-patch b1980f6d0 (PL/Tcl: Fix compiler warnings with Tcl 8.6) into 9.2, so that that branch compiles warning-free with modern Tcl. Per project policy, this is a candidate for back-patching into out-of-support branches: it suppresses annoying compiler warnings but changes no behavior. Hence, back-patch all the way to 9.2. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514615.1663615243@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-05-12Make pull_var_clause() handle GroupingFuncs exactly like Aggrefs.Tom Lane
This follows in the footsteps of commit 2591ee8ec by removing one more ill-advised shortcut from planning of GroupingFuncs. It's true that we don't intend to execute the argument expression(s) at runtime, but we still have to process any Vars appearing within them, or we risk failure at setrefs.c time (or more fundamentally, in EXPLAIN trying to print such an expression). Vars in upper plan nodes have to have referents in the next plan level, whether we ever execute 'em or not. Per bug #17479 from Michael J. Sullivan. Back-patch to all supported branches. Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17479-6260deceaf0ad304@postgresql.org
2021-09-17Fix pull_varnos to cope with translated PlaceHolderVars.Tom Lane
Commit 55dc86eca changed pull_varnos to use (if possible) the associated ph_eval_at for a PlaceHolderVar. I missed a fine point though: we might be looking at a PHV in the quals or tlist of a child appendrel, in which case we need to compute a ph_eval_at value that's been translated in the same way that the PHV itself has been (cf. adjust_appendrel_attrs). Fortunately, enough info is available in the PlaceHolderInfo to make such translation possible without additional outside data, so we don't need another round of uglification of planner APIs. This is a little bit complicated, but since it's a hard-to-hit corner case, I'm not much worried about adding cycles here. Per report from Jaime Casanova. Back-patch to v12, like the previous commit. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210915230959.GB17635@ahch-to
2021-06-02Fix planner's row-mark code for inheritance from a foreign table.Tom Lane
Commit 428b260f8 broke planning of cases where row marks are needed (SELECT FOR UPDATE, etc) and one of the query's tables is a foreign table that has regular table(s) as inheritance children. We got the reverse case right, but apparently were thinking that foreign tables couldn't be inheritance parents. Not so; so we need to be able to add a CTID junk column while adding a new child, not only a wholerow junk column. Back-patch to v12 where the faulty code came in. Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEmo3FV1LAQ4TVyS2h1WM=kMkZUmbNuZSCnfHvMcUcPeA@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-31Fix mis-planning of repeated application of a projection.Tom Lane
create_projection_plan contains a hidden assumption (here made explicit by an Assert) that a projection-capable Path will yield a projection-capable Plan. Unfortunately, that assumption is violated only a few lines away, by create_projection_plan itself. This means that two stacked ProjectionPaths can yield an outcome where we try to jam the upper path's tlist into a non-projection-capable child node, resulting in an invalid plan. There isn't any good reason to have stacked ProjectionPaths; indeed the whole concept is faulty, since the set of Vars/Aggs/etc needed by the upper one wouldn't necessarily be available in the output of the lower one, nor could the lower one create such values if they weren't available from its input. Hence, we can fix this by adjusting create_projection_path to strip any top-level ProjectionPath from the subpath it's given. (This amounts to saying "oh, we changed our minds about what we need to project here".) The test case added here only fails in v13 and HEAD; before that, we don't attempt to shove the Sort into the parallel part of the plan, for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me. However, all the directly-related code looks generally the same as far back as v11, where the hazard was introduced (by d7c19e62a). So I've got no faith that the same type of bug doesn't exist in v11 and v12, given the right test case. Hence, back-patch the code changes, but not the irrelevant test case, into those branches. Per report from Bas Poot. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/534fca83789c4a378c7de379e9067d4f@politie.nl
2021-01-28Silence another gcc 11 warning.Tom Lane
Per buildfarm and local experimentation, bleeding-edge gcc isn't convinced that the MemSet in reorder_function_arguments() is safe. Shut it up by adding an explicit check that pronargs isn't negative, and by changing MemSet to memset. (It appears that either change is enough to quiet the warning at -O2, but let's do both to be sure.)
2021-01-21Fix pull_varnos' miscomputation of relids set for a PlaceHolderVar.Tom Lane
Previously, pull_varnos() took the relids of a PlaceHolderVar as being equal to the relids in its contents, but that fails to account for the possibility that we have to postpone evaluation of the PHV due to outer joins. This could result in a malformed plan. The known cases end up triggering the "failed to assign all NestLoopParams to plan nodes" sanity check in createplan.c, but other symptoms may be possible. The right value to use is the join level we actually intend to evaluate the PHV at. We can get that from the ph_eval_at field of the associated PlaceHolderInfo. However, there are some places that call pull_varnos() before the PlaceHolderInfos have been created; in that case, fall back to the conservative assumption that the PHV will be evaluated at its syntactic level. (In principle this might result in missing some legal optimization, but I'm not aware of any cases where it's an issue in practice.) Things are also a bit ticklish for calls occurring during deconstruct_jointree(), but AFAICS the ph_eval_at fields should have reached their final values by the time we need them. The main problem in making this work is that pull_varnos() has no way to get at the PlaceHolderInfos. We can fix that easily, if a bit tediously, in HEAD by passing it the planner "root" pointer. In the back branches that'd cause an unacceptable API/ABI break for extensions, so leave the existing entry points alone and add new ones with the additional parameter. (If an old entry point is called and encounters a PHV, it'll fall back to using the syntactic level, again possibly missing some valid optimization.) Back-patch to v12. The computation is surely also wrong before that, but it appears that we cannot reach a bad plan thanks to join order restrictions imposed on the subquery that the PlaceHolderVar came from. The error only became reachable when commit 4be058fe9 allowed trivial subqueries to be collapsed out completely, eliminating their join order restrictions. Per report from Stephan Springl. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/171041.1610849523@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-08Teach contain_leaked_vars that assignment SubscriptingRefs are leaky.Tom Lane
array_get_element and array_get_slice qualify as leakproof, since they will silently return NULL for bogus subscripts. But array_set_element and array_set_slice throw errors for such cases, making them clearly not leakproof. contain_leaked_vars was evidently written with only the former case in mind, as it gave the wrong answer for assignment SubscriptingRefs (nee ArrayRefs). This would be a live security bug, were it not that assignment SubscriptingRefs can only occur in INSERT and UPDATE target lists, while we only care about leakproofness for qual expressions; so the wrong answer can't occur in practice. Still, that's a rather shaky answer for a security-related question; and maybe in future somebody will want to ask about leakproofness of a tlist. So it seems wise to fix and even back-patch this correction. (We would need some change here anyway for the upcoming generic-subscripting patch, since extensions might make different tradeoffs about whether to throw errors. Commit 558d77f20 attempted to lay groundwork for that by asking check_functions_in_node whether a SubscriptingRef contains leaky functions; but that idea fails now that the implementation methods of a SubscriptingRef are not SQL-visible functions that could be marked leakproof or not.) Back-patch to 9.6. While 9.5 has the same issue, the code's a bit different. It seems quite unlikely that we'd introduce any actual bug in the short time 9.5 has left to live, so the work/risk/reward balance isn't attractive for changing 9.5. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3143742.1607368115@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-11-30Fix miscomputation of direct_lateral_relids for join relations.Tom Lane
If a PlaceHolderVar is to be evaluated at a join relation, but its value is only needed there and not at higher levels, we neglected to update the joinrel's direct_lateral_relids to include the PHV's source rel. This causes problems because join_is_legal() then won't allow joining the joinrel to the PHV's source rel at all, leading to "failed to build any N-way joins" planner failures. Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to 9.5 where the problem originated. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87blfgqa4t.fsf@aurora.ydns.eu
2020-11-24Properly check index mark/restore in ExecSupportsMarkRestore.Andrew Gierth
Previously this code assumed that all IndexScan nodes supported mark/restore, which is not true since it depends on optional index AM support functions. This could lead to errors about missing support functions in rare edge cases of mergejoins with no sort keys, where an unordered non-btree index scan was placed on the inner path without a protecting Materialize node. (Normally, the fact that merge join requires ordered input would avoid this error.) Backpatch all the way since this bug is ancient. Per report from Eugen Konkov on irc. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87o8jn50be.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2020-08-19Suppress unnecessary RelabelType nodes in yet more cases.Tom Lane
Commit a477bfc1d fixed eval_const_expressions() to ensure that it didn't generate unnecessary RelabelType nodes, but I failed to notice that some other places in the planner had the same issue. Really noplace in the planner should be using plain makeRelabelType(), for fear of generating expressions that should be equal() to semantically equivalent trees, but aren't. An example is that because canonicalize_ec_expression() failed to be careful about this, we could end up with an equivalence class containing both a plain Const, and a Const-with-RelabelType representing exactly the same value. So far as I can tell this led to no visible misbehavior, but we did waste a bunch of cycles generating and evaluating "Const = Const-with-RelabelType" to prove such entries are redundant. Hence, move the support function added by a477bfc1d to where it can be more generally useful, and use it in the places where planner code previously used makeRelabelType. Back-patch to v12, like the previous patch. While I have no concrete evidence of any real misbehavior here, it's certainly possible that I overlooked a case where equivalent expressions that aren't equal() could cause a user-visible problem. In any case carrying extra RelabelType nodes through planning to execution isn't very desirable. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1311836.1597781384@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-08-14Be more careful about the shape of hashable subplan clauses.Tom Lane
nodeSubplan.c expects that the testexpr for a hashable ANY SubPlan has the form of one or more OpExprs whose LHS is an expression of the outer query's, while the RHS is an expression over Params representing output columns of the subquery. However, the planner only went as far as verifying that the clauses were all binary OpExprs. This works 99.99% of the time, because the clauses have the right shape when emitted by the parser --- but it's possible for function inlining to break that, as reported by PegoraroF10. To fix, teach the planner to check that the LHS and RHS contain the right things, or more accurately don't contain the wrong things. Given that this has been broken for years without anyone noticing, it seems sufficient to just give up hashing when it happens, rather than go to the trouble of commuting the clauses back again (which wouldn't necessarily work anyway). While poking at that, I also noticed that nodeSubplan.c had a baked-in assumption that the number of hash clauses is identical to the number of subquery output columns. Again, that's fine as far as parser output goes, but it's not hard to break it via function inlining. There seems little reason for that assumption though --- AFAICS, the only thing it's buying us is not having to store the number of hash clauses explicitly. Adding code to the planner to reject such cases would take more code than getting nodeSubplan.c to cope, so I fixed it that way. This has been broken for as long as we've had hashable SubPlans, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1549209182255-0.post@n3.nabble.com
2020-07-14Fix bitmap AND/OR scans on the inside of a nestloop partition-wise join.Tom Lane
reparameterize_path_by_child() failed to reparameterize BitmapAnd and BitmapOr paths. This matters only if such a path is chosen as the inside of a nestloop partition-wise join, where we have to pass in parameters from the outside of the nestloop. If that did happen, we generated a bad plan that would likely lead to crashes at execution. This is not entirely reparameterize_path_by_child()'s fault though; it's the victim of an ancient decision (my ancient decision, I think) to not bother filling in param_info in BitmapAnd/Or path nodes. That caused the function to believe that such nodes and their children contain no parameter references and so need not be processed. In hindsight that decision looks pretty penny-wise and pound-foolish: while it saves a few cycles during path node setup, we do commonly need the information later. In particular, by reversing the decision and requiring valid param_info data in all nodes of a bitmap path tree, we can get rid of indxpath.c's get_bitmap_tree_required_outer() function, which computed the data on-demand. It's not unlikely that that nets out as a savings of cycles in many scenarios. A couple of other things in indxpath.c can be simplified as well. While here, get rid of some cases in reparameterize_path_by_child() that are visibly dead or useless, given that we only care about reparameterizing paths that can be on the inside of a parameterized nestloop. This case reminds one of the maxim that untested code probably does not work, so I'm unwilling to leave unreachable code in this function. (I did leave the T_Gather case in place even though it's not reached in the regression tests. It's not very clear to me when the planner might prefer to put Gather below rather than above a nestloop, but at least in principle the case might be interesting.) Per bug #16536, originally from Arne Roland but with a test case by Andrew Gierth. Back-patch to v11 where this code came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16536-2213ee0b3aad41fd@postgresql.org
2020-05-01Get rid of trailing semicolons in C macro definitions.Tom Lane
Writing a trailing semicolon in a macro is almost never the right thing, because you almost always want to write a semicolon after each macro call instead. (Even if there was some reason to prefer not to, pgindent would probably make a hash of code formatted that way; so within PG the rule should basically be "don't do it".) Thus, if we have a semi inside the macro, the compiler sees "something;;". Much of the time the extra empty statement is harmless, but it could lead to mysterious syntax errors at call sites. In perhaps an overabundance of neatnik-ism, let's run around and get rid of the excess semicolons whereever possible. The only thing worse than a mysterious syntax error is a mysterious syntax error that only happens in the back branches; therefore, backpatch these changes where relevant, which is most of them because most of these mistakes are old. (The lack of reported problems shows that this is largely a hypothetical issue, but still, it could bite us in some future patch.) John Naylor and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCs0qWTqJ2QUSGJ07B7uvAvzMb-KbG2q+oo+J3tsWN5cqw@mail.gmail.com
2020-02-26Suppress unnecessary RelabelType nodes in more cases.Tom Lane
eval_const_expressions sometimes produced RelabelType nodes that were useless because they just relabeled an expression to the same exposed type it already had. This is worth avoiding because it can cause two equivalent expressions to not be equal(), preventing recognition of useful optimizations. In the test case added here, an unpatched planner fails to notice that the "sqli = constant" clause renders a sort step unnecessary, because one code path produces an extra RelabelType and another doesn't. Fix by ensuring that eval_const_expressions_mutator's T_RelabelType case will not add in an unnecessary RelabelType. Also save some code by sharing a subroutine with the effectively-equivalent cases for CollateExpr and CoerceToDomain. (CollateExpr had no bug, and I think that the case couldn't arise with CoerceToDomain, but it seems prudent to do the same check for all three cases.) Back-patch to v12. In principle this has been wrong all along, but I haven't seen a case where it causes visible misbehavior before v12, so refrain from changing stable branches unnecessarily. Per investigation of a report from Eric Gillum. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMmjdmvAZsUEskHYj=KT9sTukVVCiCSoe_PBKOXsncFeAUDPCQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-27Fix typo in comment.Etsuro Fujita
2019-11-05Generate EquivalenceClass members for partitionwise child join rels.Tom Lane
Commit d25ea0127 got rid of what I thought were entirely unnecessary derived child expressions in EquivalenceClasses for EC members that mention multiple baserels. But it turns out that some of the child expressions that code created are necessary for partitionwise joins, else we fail to find matching pathkeys for Sort nodes. (This happens only for certain shapes of the resulting plan; it may be that partitionwise aggregation is also necessary to show the failure, though I'm not sure of that.) Reverting that commit entirely would be quite painful performance-wise for large partition sets. So instead, add code that explicitly generates child expressions that match only partitionwise child join rels we have actually generated. Per report from Justin Pryzby. (Amit Langote noticed the problem earlier, though it's not clear if he recognized then that it could result in a planner error, not merely failure to exploit partitionwise join, in the code as-committed.) Back-patch to v12 where commit d25ea0127 came in. Amit Langote, with lots of kibitzing from me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqG2WVUGmLJqtR0tPFhniO=H=9qQ+Z3L_ZC+Y3-EVQHFGg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191011143703.GN10470@telsasoft.com
2019-07-01Fix many typos and inconsistenciesMichael Paquier
Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/af27d1b3-a128-9d62-46e0-88f424397f44@gmail.com
2019-06-16Rework the pg_statistic_ext catalogTomas Vondra
Since extended statistic got introduced in PostgreSQL 10, there was a single catalog pg_statistic_ext storing both the definitions and built statistic. That's however problematic when a user is supposed to have access only to the definitions, but not to user data. Consider for example pg_dump on a database with RLS enabled - if the pg_statistic_ext catalog respects RLS (which it should, if it contains user data), pg_dump would not see any records and the result would not define any extended statistics. That would be a surprising behavior. Until now this was not a pressing issue, because the existing types of extended statistic (functional dependencies and ndistinct coefficients) do not include any user data directly. This changed with introduction of MCV lists, which do include most common combinations of values. The easiest way to fix this is to split the pg_statistic_ext catalog into two - one for definitions, one for the built statistic values. The new catalog is called pg_statistic_ext_data, and we're maintaining a 1:1 relationship with the old catalog - either there are matching records in both catalogs, or neither of them. Bumped CATVERSION due to changing system catalog definitions. Author: Dean Rasheed, with improvements by me Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUhT9rt7Ui%3DVdx4N%3D%3DVV5XOK5dsXfnGgVOz_JhAicB%3DZA%40mail.gmail.com
2019-05-22Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-22Initial pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent. I thought it would be good to commit this separately, so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-05-05Fix style violations in syscache lookups.Tom Lane
Project style is to check the success of SearchSysCacheN and friends by applying HeapTupleIsValid to the result. A tiny minority of calls creatively did it differently. Bring them into line with the rest. This is just cosmetic, since HeapTupleIsValid is indeed just a null check at the moment ... but that may not be true forever, and in any case it puts a mental burden on readers who may wonder why these call sites are not like the rest. Back-patch to v11 just to keep the branches in sync. (The bulk of these errors seem to have originated in v11 or v12, though a few are old.) Per searching to see if anyplace else had made the same error repaired in 62148c352.
2019-04-30Clean up handling of constraint_exclusion and enable_partition_pruning.Tom Lane
The interaction of these parameters was a bit confused/confusing, and in fact v11 entirely misses the opportunity to apply partition constraints when a partition is accessed directly (rather than indirectly from its parent). In HEAD, establish the principle that enable_partition_pruning controls partition pruning and nothing else. When accessing a partition via its parent, we do partition pruning (if enabled by enable_partition_pruning) and then there is no need to consider partition constraints in the constraint_exclusion logic. When accessing a partition directly, its partition constraints are applied by the constraint_exclusion logic, only if constraint_exclusion = on. In v11, we can't have such a clean division of these GUCs' effects, partly because we don't want to break compatibility too much in a released branch, and partly because the clean coding requires inheritance_planner to have applied partition pruning to a partitioned target table, which it doesn't in v11. However, we can tweak things enough to cover the missed case, which seems like a good idea since it's potentially a performance regression from v10. This patch keeps v11's previous behavior in which enable_partition_pruning overrides constraint_exclusion for an inherited target table, though. In HEAD, also teach relation_excluded_by_constraints that it's okay to use inheritable constraints when trying to prune a traditional inheritance tree. This might not be thought worthy of effort given that that feature is semi-deprecated now, but we have enough infrastructure that it only takes a couple more lines of code to do it correctly. Amit Langote and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9813f079-f16b-61c8-9ab7-4363cab28d80@lab.ntt.co.jp Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29069.1555970894@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-04-05Use Append rather than MergeAppend for scanning ordered partitions.Tom Lane
If we need ordered output from a scan of a partitioned table, but the ordering matches the partition ordering, then we don't need to use a MergeAppend to combine the pre-ordered per-partition scan results: a plain Append will produce the same results. This both saves useless comparison work inside the MergeAppend proper, and allows us to start returning tuples after istarting up just the first child node not all of them. However, all is not peaches and cream, because if some of the child nodes have high startup costs then there will be big discontinuities in the tuples-returned-versus-elapsed-time curve. The planner's cost model cannot handle that (yet, anyway). If we model the Append's startup cost as being just the first child's startup cost, we may drastically underestimate the cost of fetching slightly more tuples than are available from the first child. Since we've had bad experiences with over-optimistic choices of "fast start" plans for ORDER BY LIMIT queries, that seems scary. As a klugy workaround, set the startup cost estimate for an ordered Append to be the sum of its children's startup costs (as MergeAppend would). This doesn't really describe reality, but it's less likely to cause a bad plan choice than an underestimated startup cost would. In practice, the cases where we really care about this optimization will have child plans that are IndexScans with zero startup cost, so that the overly conservative estimate is still just zero. David Rowley, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud and Antonin Houska Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f-hAqhPLRk_RaSFTgYxd=Tz5hA7kQ2h4-DhJufQk8TGuw@mail.gmail.com
2019-04-04Make queries' locking of indexes more consistent.Tom Lane
The assertions added by commit b04aeb0a0 exposed that there are some code paths wherein the executor will try to open an index without holding any lock on it. We do have some lock on the index's table, so it seems likely that there's no fatal problem with this (for instance, the index couldn't get dropped from under us). Still, it's bad practice and we should fix it. To do so, remove the optimizations in ExecInitIndexScan and friends that tried to avoid taking a lock on an index belonging to a target relation, and just take the lock always. In non-bug cases, this will result in no additional shared-memory access, since we'll find in the local lock table that we already have a lock of the desired type; hence, no significant performance degradation should occur. Also, adjust the planner and executor so that the type of lock taken on an index is always identical to the type of lock taken for its table, by relying on the recently added RangeTblEntry.rellockmode field. This avoids some corner cases where that might not have been true before (possibly resulting in extra locking overhead), and prevents future maintenance issues from having multiple bits of logic that all needed to be in sync. In addition, this change removes all core calls to ExecRelationIsTargetRelation, which avoids a possible O(N^2) startup penalty for queries with large numbers of target relations. (We'd probably remove that function altogether, were it not that we advertise it as something that FDWs might want to use.) Also adjust some places in selfuncs.c to not take any lock on indexes they are transiently opening, since we can assume that plancat.c did that already. In passing, change gin_clean_pending_list() to take RowExclusiveLock not AccessShareLock on its target index. Although it's not clear that that's actually a bug, it seemed very strange for a function that's explicitly going to modify the index to use only AccessShareLock. David Rowley, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud and Amit Langote, a bit of further tweaking by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19465.1541636036@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-04-02Refactor create_limit_path() to share cost adjustment code with FDWs.Etsuro Fujita
This is in preparation for an upcoming commit. Author: Etsuro Fujita Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska and Jeff Janes Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87pnz1aby9.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2019-03-31tableam: bitmap table scan.Andres Freund
This moves bitmap heap scan support to below an optional tableam callback. It's optional as the whole concept of bitmap heapscans is fairly block specific. This basically moves the work previously done in bitgetpage() into the new scan_bitmap_next_block callback, and the direct poking into the buffer done in BitmapHeapNext() into the new scan_bitmap_next_tuple() callback. The abstraction is currently somewhat leaky because nodeBitmapHeapscan.c's prefetching and visibilitymap based logic remains - it's likely that we'll later have to move more into the AM. But it's not trivial to do so without introducing a significant amount of code duplication between the AMs, so that's a project for later. Note that now nodeBitmapHeapscan.c and the associated node types are a bit misnamed. But it's not clear whether renaming wouldn't be a cure worse than the disease. Either way, that'd be best done in a separate commit. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Robert Haas (in an older version) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-03-31tableam: Formatting and other minor cleanups.Andres Freund
The superflous heapam_xlog.h includes were reported by Peter Geoghegan.
2019-03-31Compute root->qual_security_level in a less random place.Tom Lane
We can set this up once and for all in subquery_planner's initial survey of the flattened rangetable, rather than incrementally adjusting it in build_simple_rel. The previous approach made it rather hard to reason about exactly when the value would be available, and we were definitely using it in some places before the final value was computed. Noted while fooling around with Amit Langote's patch to delay creation of inheritance child rels. That didn't break this code, but it made it even more fragile, IMO.
2019-03-30tableam: Move heap specific logic from estimate_rel_size below tableam.Andres Freund
This just moves the table/matview[/toast] determination of relation size to a callback, and uses a copy of the existing logic to implement that callback for heap. It probably would make sense to also move the index specific logic into a callback, so the metapage handling (and probably more) can be index specific. But that's a separate task. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-03-30Speed up planning when partitions can be pruned at plan time.Tom Lane
Previously, the planner created RangeTblEntry and RelOptInfo structs for every partition of a partitioned table, even though many of them might later be deemed uninteresting thanks to partition pruning logic. This incurred significant overhead when there are many partitions. Arrange to postpone creation of these data structures until after we've processed the query enough to identify restriction quals for the partitioned table, and then apply partition pruning before not after creation of each partition's data structures. In this way we need not open the partition relations at all for partitions that the planner has no real interest in. For queries that can be proven at plan time to access only a small number of partitions, this patch improves the practical maximum number of partitions from under 100 to perhaps a few thousand. Amit Langote, reviewed at various times by Dilip Kumar, Jesper Pedersen, Yoshikazu Imai, and David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9d7c5112-cb99-6a47-d3be-cf1ee6862a1d@lab.ntt.co.jp
2019-03-30Generated columnsPeter Eisentraut
This is an SQL-standard feature that allows creating columns that are computed from expressions rather than assigned, similar to a view or materialized view but on a column basis. This implements one kind of generated column: stored (computed on write). Another kind, virtual (computed on read), is planned for the future, and some room is left for it. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b151f851-4019-bdb1-699e-ebab07d2f40a@2ndquadrant.com
2019-03-27Add support for multivariate MCV listsTomas Vondra
Introduce a third extended statistic type, supported by the CREATE STATISTICS command - MCV lists, a generalization of the statistic already built and used for individual columns. Compared to the already supported types (n-distinct coefficients and functional dependencies), MCV lists are more complex, include column values and allow estimation of much wider range of common clauses (equality and inequality conditions, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL etc.). Similarly to the other types, a new pseudo-type (pg_mcv_list) is used. Author: Tomas Vondra Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, David Rowley, Mark Dilger, Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dfdac334-9cf2-2597-fb27-f0fb3753f435@2ndquadrant.com
2019-03-26Build "other rels" of appendrel baserels in a separate step.Tom Lane
Up to now, otherrel RelOptInfos were built at the same time as baserel RelOptInfos, thanks to recursion in build_simple_rel(). However, nothing in query_planner's preprocessing cares at all about otherrels, only baserels, so we don't really need to build them until just before we enter make_one_rel. This has two benefits: * create_lateral_join_info did a lot of extra work to propagate lateral-reference information from parents to the correct children. But if we delay creation of the children till after that, it's trivial (and much harder to break, too). * Since we have all the restriction quals correctly assigned to parent appendrels by this point, it'll be possible to do plan-time pruning and never make child RelOptInfos at all for partitions that can be pruned away. That's not done here, but will be later on. Amit Langote, reviewed at various times by Dilip Kumar, Jesper Pedersen, Yoshikazu Imai, and David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9d7c5112-cb99-6a47-d3be-cf1ee6862a1d@lab.ntt.co.jp
2019-03-26Get rid of duplicate child RTE for a partitioned table.Tom Lane
We've been creating duplicate RTEs for partitioned tables just because we do so for regular inheritance parent tables. But unlike regular-inheritance parents which are themselves regular tables and thus need to be scanned, partitioned tables don't need the extra RTE. This makes the conditions for building a child RTE the same as those for building an AppendRelInfo, allowing minor simplification in expand_single_inheritance_child. Since the planner's actual processing is driven off the AppendRelInfo list, nothing much changes beyond that, we just have one fewer useless RTE entry. Amit Langote, reviewed and hacked a bit by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9d7c5112-cb99-6a47-d3be-cf1ee6862a1d@lab.ntt.co.jp
2019-03-25Suppress Append and MergeAppend plan nodes that have a single child.Tom Lane
If there's only one child relation, the Append or MergeAppend isn't doing anything useful, and can be elided. It does have a purpose during planning though, which is to serve as a buffer between parent and child Var numbering. Therefore we keep it all the way through to setrefs.c, and get rid of it only after fixing references in the plan level(s) above it. This works largely the same as setrefs.c's ancient hack to get rid of no-op SubqueryScan nodes, and can even share some code with that. Note the change to make setrefs.c use apply_tlist_labeling rather than ad-hoc code. This has the effect of propagating the child's resjunk and ressortgroupref labels, which formerly weren't propagated when removing a SubqueryScan. Doing that is demonstrably necessary for the [Merge]Append cases, and seems harmless for SubqueryScan, if only because trivial_subqueryscan is afraid to collapse cases where the resjunk marking differs. (I suspect that restriction could now be removed, though it's unclear that it'd make any new matches possible, since the outer query can't have references to a child resjunk column.) David Rowley, reviewed by Alvaro Herrera and Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_7u8ATyJ1JGTMHFoKDvZdeF-iEBhs+sM_SXowOr9cArg@mail.gmail.com
2019-03-22Don't copy PartitionBoundInfo in set_relation_partition_info.Tom Lane
I (tgl) remain dubious that it's a good idea for PartitionDirectory to hold a pin on a relcache entry throughout planning, rather than copying the data or using some kind of refcount scheme. However, it's certainly the responsibility of the PartitionDirectory code to ensure that what it's handing back is a stable data structure, not that of its caller. So this is a pretty clear oversight in commit 898e5e329, and one that can cost a lot of performance when there are many partitions. Amit Langote (extracted from a much larger patch set) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY3bRmGB6-DUnoVy5fJoreiBJ43rwMrQRCdPXuKt4Ykaw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9d7c5112-cb99-6a47-d3be-cf1ee6862a1d@lab.ntt.co.jp