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2016-05-11Fix infer_arbiter_indexes() to not barf on system columns.Tom Lane
While it could be argued that rejecting system column mentions in the ON CONFLICT list is an unsupported feature, falling over altogether just because the table has a unique index on OID is indubitably a bug. As far as I can tell, fixing infer_arbiter_indexes() is sufficient to make ON CONFLICT (oid) actually work, though making a regression test for that case is problematic because of the impossibility of setting the OID counter to a known value. Minor cosmetic cleanups along with the bug fix.
2016-05-11Fix assorted missing infrastructure for ON CONFLICT.Tom Lane
subquery_planner() failed to apply expression preprocessing to the arbiterElems and arbiterWhere fields of an OnConflictExpr. No doubt the theory was that this wasn't necessary because we don't actually try to execute those expressions; but that's wrong, because it results in failure to match to index expressions or index predicates that are changed at all by preprocessing. Per bug #14132 from Reynold Smith. Also add pullup_replace_vars processing for onConflictWhere. Perhaps it's impossible to have a subquery reference there, but I'm not exactly convinced; and even if true today it's a failure waiting to happen. Also add some comments to other places where one or another field of OnConflictExpr is intentionally ignored, with explanation as to why it's okay to do so. Also, catalog/dependency.c failed to record any dependency on the named constraint in ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT, allowing such a constraint to be dropped while rules exist that depend on it, and allowing pg_dump to dump such a rule before the constraint it refers to. The normal execution path managed to error out reasonably for a dangling constraint reference, but ruleutils.c dumped core; so in addition to fixing the omission, add a protective check in ruleutils.c, since we can't retroactively add a dependency in existing databases. Back-patch to 9.5 where this code was introduced. Report: <20160510190350.2608.48667@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-05-06Minimal fix for crash bug in quals_match_foreign_key.Robert Haas
Discussion is still underway as to whether to revert the entire patch that added this function, but that discussion may not conclude before beta1. So, in the meantime, let's do at least this much. David Rowley
2016-04-30Small improvements to OPTIMIZER_DEBUG code.Tom Lane
Now that Paths have their own rows field, print that rather than the parent relation's rowcount. Show the relid sets associated with Paths using table names rather than numbers; since this code is able to print simple Var references using table names, it seems a bit silly that print_relids can't. Print the cheapest_parameterized_paths list for a RelOptInfo, and include information about a parameterized path's required_outer rels. Noted while trying to use this feature to debug Alexander Kirkouski's recent bug report.
2016-04-30Fix planner crash from pfree'ing a partial path that a GatherPath uses.Tom Lane
We mustn't run generate_gather_paths() during add_paths_to_joinrel(), because that function can be invoked multiple times for the same target joinrel. Not only is it wasteful to build GatherPaths repeatedly, but a later add_partial_path() could delete the partial path that a previously created GatherPath depends on. Instead establish the convention that we do generate_gather_paths() for a rel only just before set_cheapest(). The code was accidentally not broken for baserels, because as of today there never is more than one partial path for a baserel. But that assumption obviously has a pretty short half-life, so move the generate_gather_paths() calls for those cases as well. Also add some generic comments explaining how and why this all works. Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich. Report: <871t5pgwdt.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-04-29Fix mishandling of equivalence-class tests in parameterized plans.Tom Lane
Given a three-or-more-way equivalence class, such as X.Y = Y.Y = Z.Z, it was possible for the planner to omit one of the quals needed to enforce that all members of the equivalence class are actually equal. This only happened in the case of a parameterized join node for two of the relations, that is a plan tree like Nested Loop -> Scan X -> Nested Loop -> Scan Y -> Scan Z Filter: Z.Z = X.X The eclass machinery normally expects to apply X.X = Y.Y when those two relations are joined, but in this shape of plan tree they aren't joined until the top node --- and, if the lower nested loop is marked as parameterized by X, the top node will assume that the relevant eclass condition(s) got pushed down into the lower node. On the other hand, the scan of Z assumes that it's only responsible for constraining Z.Z to match any one of the other eclass members. So one or another of the required quals sometimes fell between the cracks, depending on whether consideration of the eclass in get_joinrel_parampathinfo() for the lower nested loop chanced to generate X.X = Y.Y or X.X = Z.Z as the appropriate constraint there. If it generated the latter, it'd erroneously suppose that the Z scan would take care of matters. To fix, force X.X = Y.Y to be generated and applied at that join node when this case occurs. This is *extremely* hard to hit in practice, because various planner behaviors conspire to mask the problem; starting with the fact that the planner doesn't really like to generate a parameterized plan of the above shape. (It might have been impossible to hit it before we tweaked things to allow this plan shape for star-schema cases.) Many thanks to Alexander Kirkouski for submitting a reproducible test case. The bug can be demonstrated in all branches back to 9.2 where parameterized paths were introduced, so back-patch that far.
2016-04-27Fix EXPLAIN VERBOSE output for parallel aggregate.Robert Haas
The way that PartialAggregate and FinalizeAggregate plan nodes were displaying output columns before was bogus. Now, FinalizeAggregate produces the same outputs as an Aggregate would have produced, while PartialAggregate produces each of those outputs prefixed by the word PARTIAL. Discussion: 12585.1460737650@sss.pgh.pa.us Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
2016-04-26Enable parallel query by default.Robert Haas
Change max_parallel_degree default from 0 to 2. It is possible that this is not a good idea, or that we should go with 1 worker rather than 2, but we won't find out without trying it. Along the way, reword the documentation for max_parallel_degree a little bit to hopefully make it more clear. Discussion: 20160420174631.3qjjhpwsvvx5bau5@alap3.anarazel.de
2016-04-21Fix planner failure with full join in RHS of left join.Tom Lane
Given a left join containing a full join in its righthand side, with the left join's joinclause referencing only one side of the full join (in a non-strict fashion, so that the full join doesn't get simplified), the planner could fail with "failed to build any N-way joins" or related errors. This happened because the full join was seen as overlapping the left join's RHS, and then recent changes within join_is_legal() caused that function to conclude that the full join couldn't validly be formed. Rather than try to rejigger join_is_legal() yet more to allow this, I think it's better to fix initsplan.c so that the required join order is explicit in the SpecialJoinInfo data structure. The previous coding there essentially ignored full joins, relying on the fact that we don't flatten them in the joinlist data structure to preserve their ordering. That's sufficient to prevent a wrong plan from being formed, but as this example shows, it's not sufficient to ensure that the right plan will be formed. We need to work a bit harder to ensure that the right plan looks sane according to the SpecialJoinInfos. Per bug #14105 from Vojtech Rylko. This was apparently induced by commit 8703059c6 (though now that I've seen it, I wonder whether there are related cases that could have failed before that); so back-patch to all active branches. Unfortunately, that patch also went into 9.0, so this bug is a regression that won't be fixed in that branch.
2016-04-21Comment improvements for ForeignPath.Robert Haas
It's not necessarily just scanning a base relation any more. Amit Langote and Etsuro Fujita
2016-04-20Forbid parallel Hash Right Join or Hash Full Join.Robert Haas
That won't work. You'll get bogus null-extended rows. Mithun Cy
2016-04-15Fix typo in commentMagnus Hagander
2016-04-12Fix costing for parallel aggregation.Robert Haas
The original patch kind of ignored the fact that we were doing something different from a costing point of view, but nobody noticed. This patch fixes that oversight. David Rowley
2016-04-12Redefine create_upper_paths_hook as being invoked once per upper relation.Tom Lane
Per discussion, this gives potential users of the hook more flexibility, because they can build custom Paths that implement only one stage of upper processing atop core-provided Paths for earlier stages.
2016-04-10Clean up foreign-key caching code in planner.Tom Lane
Coverity complained that the code added by 015e88942aa50f0d lacked an error check for SearchSysCache1 failures, which it should have. But the code was pretty duff in other ways too, including failure to think about whether it could really cope with arrays of different lengths.
2016-04-08Revert CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING ...Teodor Sigaev
It's not ready yet, revert two commits 690c543550b0d2852060c18d270cdb534d339d9a - unstable test output 386e3d7609c49505e079c40c65919d99feb82505 - patch itself
2016-04-08CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING (column[, ...])Teodor Sigaev
Now indexes (but only B-tree for now) can contain "extra" column(s) which doesn't participate in index structure, they are just stored in leaf tuples. It allows to use index only scan by using single index instead of two or more indexes. Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with minor editorializing by me Reviewers: David Rowley, Peter Geoghegan, Jeff Janes
2016-04-08Add a 'parallel_degree' reloption.Robert Haas
The code that estimates what parallel degree should be uesd for the scan of a relation is currently rather stupid, so add a parallel_degree reloption that can be used to override the planner's rather limited judgement. Julien Rouhaud, reviewed by David Rowley, James Sewell, Amit Kapila, and me. Some further hacking by me.
2016-04-08Use quicksort, not replacement selection, for external sorting.Robert Haas
We still use replacement selection for the first run of the sort only and only when the number of tuples is relatively small. Otherwise, the first run, and subsequent runs in all cases, are produced using quicksort. This tends to be faster except perhaps for very small amounts of working memory. Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, Jeff Janes, Mithun Cy, Greg Stark, and me.
2016-04-08Use Foreign Key relationships to infer multi-column join selectivitySimon Riggs
In cases where joins use multiple columns we currently assess each join separately causing gross mis-estimates for join cardinality. This patch adds use of FK information for the first time into the planner. When FKs are present and we have multi-column join information, plan estimates will be drastically improved. Cases with multiple FKs are handled, though partial matches are ignored currently. Net effect is substantial performance improvements for joins in many common cases. Additional planning time is isolated to cases that are currently performing poorly, measured at 0.08 - 0.15 ms. Please watch for planner performance regressions; circumstances seem unlikely but the law of unintended consequences may apply somewhen. Additional complex tests welcome to prove this before release. Tests can be performed using SET enable_fkey_estimates = on | off using scripts provided during Hackers discussions, message id: 552335D9.3090707@2ndquadrant.com Authors: Tomas Vondra and David Rowley Reviewed and tested by Simon Riggs, adding comments only
2016-04-07Refactor join_is_removable() to separate out distinctness-proving logic.Tom Lane
Extracted from pending unique-join patch, since this is a rather large delta but it's simply moving code out into separately-accessible subroutines. I (tgl) did choose to add a bit more logic to rel_supports_distinctness, so that it verifies that there's at least one potentially usable unique index rather than just checking indexlist != NIL. Otherwise there's no functional change here. David Rowley
2016-04-07Load FK defs into relcache for use by plannerSimon Riggs
Fastpath ignores this if no triggers defined. Author: Tomas Vondra, with fastpath and comments added by me Reviewers: David Rowley, Simon Riggs
2016-04-06Run pgindent on a batch of (mostly-planner-related) source files.Tom Lane
Getting annoyed at the amount of unrelated chatter I get from pgindent'ing Rowley's unique-joins patch. Re-indent all the files it touches.
2016-04-05Fix parallel-safety code for parallel aggregation.Robert Haas
has_parallel_hazard() was ignoring the proparallel markings for aggregates, which is no good. Fix that. There was no way to mark an aggregate as actually being parallel-safe, either, so add a PARALLEL option to CREATE AGGREGATE. Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
2016-03-31Support using index-only scans with partial indexes in more cases.Tom Lane
Previously, the planner would reject an index-only scan if any restriction clause for its table used a column not available from the index, even if that restriction clause would later be dropped from the plan entirely because it's implied by the index's predicate. This is a fairly common situation for partial indexes because predicates using columns not included in the index are often the most useful kind of predicate, and we have to duplicate (or at least imply) the predicate in the WHERE clause in order to get the index to be considered at all. So index-only scans were essentially unavailable with such partial indexes. To fix, we have to do detection of implied-by-predicate clauses much earlier in the planner. This patch puts it in check_index_predicates (nee check_partial_indexes), meaning it gets done for every partial index, whereas we previously only considered this issue at createplan time, so that the work was only done for an index actually selected for use. That could result in a noticeable planning slowdown for queries against tables with many partial indexes. However, testing suggested that there isn't really a significant cost, especially not with reasonable numbers of partial indexes. We do get a small additional benefit, which is that cost_index is more accurate since it correctly discounts the evaluation cost of clauses that will be removed. We can also avoid considering such clauses as potential indexquals, which saves useless matching cycles in the case where the predicate columns aren't in the index, and prevents generating bogus plans that double-count the clause's selectivity when the columns are in the index. Tomas Vondra and Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Kevin Grittner and Konstantin Knizhnik, and whacked around a little by me
2016-03-29Allow aggregate transition states to be serialized and deserialized.Robert Haas
This is necessary infrastructure for supporting parallel aggregation for aggregates whose transition type is "internal". Such values can't be passed between cooperating processes, because they are just pointers. David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and by me.
2016-03-29Rework custom scans to work more like the new extensible node stuff.Robert Haas
Per discussion, the new extensible node framework is thought to be better designed than the custom path/scan/scanstate stuff we added in PostgreSQL 9.5. Rework the latter to be more like the former. This is not backward-compatible, but we generally don't promise that for C APIs, and there probably aren't many people using this yet anyway. KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Petr Jelinek and me. Some further cosmetic changes by me.
2016-03-28Don't require a user mapping for FDWs to work.Robert Haas
Commit fbe5a3fb73102c2cfec11aaaa4a67943f4474383 accidentally changed this behavior; put things back the way they were, and add some regression tests. Report by Andres Freund; patch by Ashutosh Bapat, with a bit of kibitzing by me.
2016-03-26Avoid a couple of zero-divide scenarios in the planner.Tom Lane
cost_subplan() supposed that the given subplan must have plan_rows > 0, which as far as I can tell was true until recent refactoring of the code in createplan.c; but now that code allows the Result for a provably empty subquery to have plan_rows = 0. Rather than undo that change, put in a clamp to prevent zero divide. get_cheapest_fractional_path() likewise supposed that best_path->rows > 0. This assumption has been wrong for longer. It's actually harmless given IEEE float math, because a positive value divided by zero gives +Infinity and compare_fractional_path_costs() will do the right thing with that. Still, best not to assume that. final_cost_nestloop() also seems to have some risks in this area, so borrow the clamping logic already present in the mergejoin cost functions. Lastly, remove unnecessary clamp_row_est() in planner.c's calls to get_number_of_groups(). The only thing that function does with path_rows is pass it to estimate_num_groups() which already has an internal clamp, so we don't need the extra call; and if we did, the callers are arguably the wrong place for it anyway. First two items reported by Piotr Stefaniak, the others are products of my nosing around for similar problems. No back-patch since there's no evidence that problems arise in the back branches.
2016-03-25Don't split up SRFs when choosing to postpone SELECT output expressions.Tom Lane
In commit 9118d03a8cca3d97 we taught the planner to postpone evaluation of set-returning functions in a SELECT's targetlist until after any sort done to satisfy ORDER BY. However, if we postpone some SRFs this way while others do not get postponed (because they're sort or group key columns) we will break the traditional behavior by which all SRFs in the tlist run in-step during ExecTargetList(), so that you get the least common multiple of their periods not the product. Fix make_sort_input_target() so it will not split up SRF evaluation in such cases. There is still a hazard of similar odd behavior if there's a SRF in a grouping column and another one that isn't, but that was true before and we're just trying to preserve bug-compatibility with the traditional behavior. This whole area is overdue to be rethought and reimplemented, but we'll try to avoid changing behavior until then. Per report from Regina Obe.
2016-03-21Support parallel aggregation.Robert Haas
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial results to produce the final answer. David Rowley, based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi. Reviewed by Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, James Sewell, and me.
2016-03-18Directly modify foreign tables.Robert Haas
postgres_fdw can now sent an UPDATE or DELETE statement directly to the foreign server in simple cases, rather than sending a SELECT FOR UPDATE statement and then updating or deleting rows one-by-one. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, Shigeru Hanada, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Albe Laurenz, Thom Brown, and me.
2016-03-18Push scan/join target list beneath Gather when possible.Robert Haas
This means that, for example, "SELECT expensive_func(a) FROM bigtab WHERE something" can compute expensive_func(a) in the workers rather than the leader if it happens to be parallel-safe, which figures to be a big win in some practical cases. Currently, we can only do this if the entire target list is parallel-safe. If we worked harder, we might be able to evaluate parallel-safe targets in the worker and any parallel-restricted targets in the leader, but that would be more complicated, and there aren't that many parallel-restricted functions that people are likely to use in queries anyway. I think. So just do the simple thing for the moment. Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, and Tom Lane
2016-03-17Fix typos.Robert Haas
Jim Nasby
2016-03-15Fix typos.Robert Haas
Oskari Saarenmaa
2016-03-14Add a GetForeignUpperPaths callback function for FDWs.Tom Lane
This is basically like the just-added create_upper_paths_hook, but control is funneled only to the FDW responsible for all the baserels of the current query; so providing such a callback is much less likely to add useless overhead than using the hook function is. The documentation is a bit sketchy. We'll likely want to improve it, and/or adjust the call conventions, when we get some experience with actually using this callback. Hopefully somebody will find time to experiment with it before 9.6 feature freeze.
2016-03-14Provide a planner hook at a suitable place for creating upper-rel Paths.Tom Lane
In the initial revision of the upper-planner pathification work, the only available way for an FDW or custom-scan provider to inject Paths representing post-scan-join processing was to insert them during scan-level GetForeignPaths or similar processing. While that's not impossible, it'd require quite a lot of duplicative processing to look forward and see if the extension would be capable of implementing the whole query. To improve matters for custom-scan providers, provide a hook function at the point where the core code is about to start filling in upperrel Paths. At this point Paths are available for the whole scan/join tree, which should reduce the amount of redundant effort considerably. (An alternative design that was suggested was to provide a separate hook for each post-scan-join processing step, but that seems messy and not clearly more useful.) Following our time-honored tradition, there's no documentation for this hook outside the source code. As-is, this hook is only meant for custom scan providers, which we can't assume very much about. A followon patch will implement an FDW callback to let FDWs do the same thing in a somewhat more structured fashion.
2016-03-14Allow callers of create_foreignscan_path to specify nondefault PathTarget.Tom Lane
Although the default choice of rel->reltarget should typically be sufficient for scan or join paths, it's not at all sufficient for the purposes PathTargets were invented for; in particular not for upper-relation Paths. So break API compatibility by adding a PathTarget argument to create_foreignscan_path(). To ease updating of existing code, accept a NULL value of the argument as selecting rel->reltarget.
2016-03-14Rethink representation of PathTargets.Tom Lane
In commit 19a541143a09c067 I did not make PathTarget a subtype of Node, and embedded a RelOptInfo's reltarget directly into it rather than having a separately-allocated Node. In hindsight that was misguided micro-optimization, enabled by the fact that at that point we didn't have any Paths with custom PathTargets. Now that PathTarget processing has been fleshed out some more, it's easier to see that it's better to have PathTarget as an indepedent Node type, even if it does cost us one more palloc to create a RelOptInfo. So change it while we still can. This commit just changes the representation, without doing anything more interesting than that.
2016-03-14Update more comments for 96198d94cb7adc664bda341842dc8db671d8be72.Robert Haas
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed (though not completely endorsed) by Ashutosh Bapat, and slightly expanded by me.
2016-03-12Re-export a few of createplan.c's make_xxx() functions.Tom Lane
CitusDB is using these and don't wish to redesign their code right now. I am not on board with this being a good idea, or a good precedent, but I lack the energy to fight about it.
2016-03-11When appropriate, postpone SELECT output expressions till after ORDER BY.Tom Lane
It is frequently useful for volatile, set-returning, or expensive functions in a SELECT's targetlist to be postponed till after ORDER BY and LIMIT are done. Otherwise, the functions might be executed for every row of the table despite the presence of LIMIT, and/or be executed in an unexpected order. For example, in SELECT x, nextval('seq') FROM tab ORDER BY x LIMIT 10; it's probably desirable that the nextval() values are ordered the same as x, and that nextval() is not run more than 10 times. In the past, Postgres was inconsistent in this area: you would get the desirable behavior if the ordering were performed via an indexscan, but not if it had to be done by an explicit sort step. Getting the desired behavior reliably required contortions like SELECT x, nextval('seq') FROM (SELECT x FROM tab ORDER BY x) ss LIMIT 10; This patch conditionally postpones evaluation of pure-output target expressions (that is, those that are not used as DISTINCT, ORDER BY, or GROUP BY columns) so that they effectively occur after sorting, even if an explicit sort step is necessary. Volatile expressions and set-returning expressions are always postponed, so as to provide consistent semantics. Expensive expressions (costing more than 10 times typical operator cost, which by default would include any user-defined function) are postponed if there is a LIMIT or if there are expressions that must be postponed. We could be more aggressive and postpone any nontrivial expression, but there are costs associated with doing so: it requires an extra Result plan node which adds some overhead, and postponement changes the volume of data going through the sort step, perhaps for the worse. Since we tend not to have very good estimates of the output width of nontrivial expressions, it's hard to have much confidence in our ability to predict whether postponement would increase or decrease the cost of the sort; therefore this patch doesn't attempt to make decisions conditionally on that. Between these factors and a general desire not to change query behavior when there's not a demonstrable benefit, it seems best to be conservative about applying postponement. We might tweak the decision rules in the future, though. Konstantin Knizhnik, heavily rewritten by me
2016-03-11Minor additional refactoring of planner.c's PathTarget handling.Tom Lane
Teach make_group_input_target() and make_window_input_target() to work entirely with the PathTarget representation of tlists, rather than constructing a tlist and immediately deconstructing it into PathTarget format. In itself this only saves a few palloc's; the bigger picture is that it opens the door for sharing cost_qual_eval work across all of planner.c's constructions of PathTargets. I'll come back to that later. In support of this, flesh out tlist.c's infrastructure for PathTargets a bit more.
2016-03-10Give pull_var_clause() reject/recurse/return behavior for WindowFuncs too.Tom Lane
All along, this function should have treated WindowFuncs in a manner similar to Aggrefs, ie with an option whether or not to recurse into them. By not considering the case, it was always recursing, which is OK for most callers (although I suspect that the case in prepare_sort_from_pathkeys might represent a bug). But now we need return-without-recursing behavior as well. There are also more than a few callers that should never see a WindowFunc, and now we'll get some error checking on that.
2016-03-10Refactor pull_var_clause's API to make it less tedious to extend.Tom Lane
In commit 1d97c19a0f748e94 and later c1d9579dd8bf3c92, we extended pull_var_clause's API by adding enum-type arguments. That's sort of a pain to maintain, though, because it means every time we add a new behavior we must touch every last one of the call sites, even if there's a reasonable default behavior that most of them could use. Let's switch over to using a bitmask of flags, instead; that seems more maintainable and might save a nanosecond or two as well. This commit changes no behavior in itself, though I'm going to follow it up with one that does add a new behavior. In passing, remove flatten_tlist(), which has not been used since 9.1 and would otherwise need the same API changes. Removing these enums means that optimizer/tlist.h no longer needs to depend on optimizer/var.h. Changing that caused a number of C files to need addition of #include "optimizer/var.h" (probably we can thank old runs of pgrminclude for that); but on balance it seems like a good change anyway.
2016-03-09Fix incorrect tlist generation in create_gather_plan().Tom Lane
This function is written as though Gather doesn't project; but it does. Even if it did not project, though, we must use build_path_tlist to ensure that the output columns receive correct sortgroupref labeling. Per report from Amit Kapila.
2016-03-09Improve handling of pathtargets in planner.c.Tom Lane
Refactor so that the internal APIs in planner.c deal in PathTargets not targetlists, and establish a more regular structure for deriving the targets needed for successive steps. There is more that could be done here; calculating the eval costs of each successive target independently is both inefficient and wrong in detail, since we won't actually recompute values available from the input node's tlist. But it's no worse than what happened before the pathification rewrite. In any case this seems like a good starting point for considering how to handle Konstantin Knizhnik's function-evaluation-postponement patch.
2016-03-08Improve handling of group-column indexes in GroupingSetsPath.Tom Lane
Instead of having planner.c compute a groupColIdx array and store it in GroupingSetsPaths, make create_groupingsets_plan() find the grouping columns by searching in the child plan node's tlist. Although that's probably a bit slower for create_groupingsets_plan(), it's more like the way every other plan node type does this, and it provides positive confirmation that we know which child output columns we're supposed to be grouping on. (Indeed, looking at this now, I'm not at all sure that it wasn't broken before, because create_groupingsets_plan() isn't demanding an exact tlist match from its child node.) Also, this allows substantial simplification in planner.c, because it no longer needs to compute the groupColIdx array at all; no other cases were using it. I'd intended to put off this refactoring until later (like 9.7), but in view of the likely bug fix and the need to rationalize planner.c's tlist handling so we can do something sane with Konstantin Knizhnik's function-evaluation-postponement patch, I think it can't wait.
2016-03-08Fix minor thinko in pathification code.Tom Lane
I passed the wrong "root" struct to create_pathtarget in build_minmax_path. Since the subroot is a clone of the outer root, this would not cause any serious problems, but it would waste some cycles because set_pathtarget_cost_width would not have access to Var width estimates set up while running query_planner on the subroot.
2016-03-08Finish refactoring make_foo() functions in createplan.c.Tom Lane
This patch removes some redundant cost calculations that I left for later cleanup in commit 3fc6e2d7f5b652b4. There's now a uniform policy that the make_foo() convenience functions don't do any cost calculations. Most of their callers copy costs from the source Path node, and for those that don't, the calculation in the make_foo() function wasn't necessarily right anyhow. (make_result() was particularly a mess, as it was serving multiple callers using cost calcs designed for only the first one or two that had ever existed.) Aside from saving a few cycles, this ensures that what EXPLAIN prints matches the costs we used for planning purposes. It does not change any planner decisions, since the decisions are already made.