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2015-09-29Comment update for join pushdown.Robert Haas
Etsuro Fujita
2015-09-24Allow planner to use expression-index stats for function calls in WHERE.Tom Lane
Previously, a function call appearing at the top level of WHERE had a hard-wired selectivity estimate of 0.3333333, a kludge conveniently dated in the source code itself to July 1992. The expectation at the time was that somebody would soon implement estimator support functions analogous to those for operators; but no such code has appeared, nor does it seem likely to in the near future. We do have an alternative solution though, at least for immutable functions on single relations: creating an expression index on the function call will allow ANALYZE to gather stats about the function's selectivity. But the code in clause_selectivity() failed to make use of such data even if it exists. Refactor so that that will happen. I chose to make it try this technique for any clause type for which clause_selectivity() doesn't have a special case, not just functions. To avoid adding unnecessary overhead in the common case where we don't learn anything new, make selfuncs.c provide an API that hooks directly to examine_variable() and then var_eq_const(), rather than the previous coding which laboriously constructed an OpExpr only so that it could be expensively deconstructed again. I preserved the behavior that the default estimate for a function call is 0.3333333. (For any other expression node type, it's 0.5, as before.) I had originally thought to make the default be 0.5 across the board, but changing a default estimate that's survived for twenty-three years seems like something not to do without a lot more testing than I care to put into it right now. Per a complaint from Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais. Back-patch into 9.5, but not further, at least for the moment.
2015-09-10Fix setrefs.c comment properly.Tom Lane
The "typo" alleged in commit 1e460d4bd was actually a comment that was correct when written, but I missed updating it in commit b5282aa89. Use a slightly less specific (and hopefully more future-proof) description of what is collected. Back-patch to 9.2 where that commit appeared, and revert the comment to its then-entirely-correct state before that.
2015-09-10Fix typo in setrefs.cStephen Frost
We're adding OIDs, not TIDs, to invalItems. Pointed out by Etsuro Fujita. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-09-05Fix misc typos.Heikki Linnakangas
Oskari Saarenmaa. Backpatch to stable branches where applicable.
2015-08-12Undo mistaken tightening in join_is_legal().Tom Lane
One of the changes I made in commit 8703059c6b55c427 turns out not to have been such a good idea: we still need the exception in join_is_legal() that allows a join if both inputs already overlap the RHS of the special join we're checking. Otherwise we can miss valid plans, and might indeed fail to find a plan at all, as in recent report from Andreas Seltenreich. That code was added way back in commit c17117649b9ae23d, but I failed to include a regression test case then; my bad. Put it back with a better explanation, and a test this time. The logic does end up a bit different than before though: I now believe it's appropriate to make this check first, thereby allowing such a case whether or not we'd consider the previous SJ(s) to commute with this one. (Presumably, we already decided they did; but it was confusing to have this consideration in the middle of the code that was handling the other case.) Back-patch to all active branches, like the previous patch.
2015-08-10Further mucking with PlaceHolderVar-related restrictions on join order.Tom Lane
Commit 85e5e222b1dd02f135a8c3bf387d0d6d88e669bd turns out not to have taken care of all cases of the partially-evaluatable-PlaceHolderVar problem found by Andreas Seltenreich's fuzz testing. I had set it up to check for risky PHVs only in the event that we were making a star-schema-based exception to the param_source_rels join ordering heuristic. However, it turns out that the problem can occur even in joins that satisfy the param_source_rels heuristic, in which case allow_star_schema_join() isn't consulted. Refactor so that we check for risky PHVs whenever the proposed join has any remaining parameterization. Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous patch (except for the regression test case, which only works back to 9.3 because it uses LATERAL). Note that this discovery implies that problems of this sort could've occurred in 9.2 and up even before the star-schema patch; though I've not tried to prove that experimentally.
2015-08-07Further adjustments to PlaceHolderVar removal.Tom Lane
A new test case from Andreas Seltenreich showed that we were still a bit confused about removing PlaceHolderVars during join removal. Specifically, remove_rel_from_query would remove a PHV that was used only underneath the removable join, even if the place where it's used was the join partner relation and not the join clause being deleted. This would lead to a "too late to create a new PlaceHolderInfo" error later on. We can defend against that by checking ph_eval_at to see if the PHV could possibly be getting used at some partner rel. Also improve some nearby LATERAL-related logic. I decided that the check on ph_lateral needed to take precedence over the check on ph_needed, in case there's a lateral reference underneath the join being considered. (That may be impossible, but I'm not convinced of it, and it's easy enough to defend against the case.) Also, I realized that remove_rel_from_query's logic for updating LateralJoinInfos is dead code, because we don't build those at all until after join removal. Back-patch to 9.3. Previous versions didn't have the LATERAL issues, of course, and they also didn't attempt to remove PlaceHolderInfos during join removal. (I'm starting to wonder if changing that was really such a great idea.)
2015-08-06Fix old oversight in join removal logic.Tom Lane
Commit 9e7e29c75ad441450f9b8287bd51c13521641e3b introduced an Assert that join removal didn't reduce the eval_at set of any PlaceHolderVar to empty. At first glance it looks like join_is_removable ensures that's true --- but actually, the loop in join_is_removable skips PlaceHolderVars that are not referenced above the join due to be removed. So, if we don't want any empty eval_at sets, the right thing to do is to delete any now-unreferenced PlaceHolderVars from the data structure entirely. Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to 9.3 where the aforesaid Assert was added.
2015-08-06Fix eclass_useful_for_merging to give valid results for appendrel children.Tom Lane
Formerly, this function would always return "true" for an appendrel child relation, because it would think that the appendrel parent was a potential join target for the child. In principle that should only lead to some inefficiency in planning, but fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich disclosed that it could lead to "could not find pathkey item to sort" planner errors in odd corner cases. Specifically, we would think that all columns of a child table's multicolumn index were interesting pathkeys, causing us to generate a MergeAppend path that sorts by all the columns. However, if any of those columns weren't actually used above the level of the appendrel, they would not get added to that rel's targetlist, which would result in being unable to resolve the MergeAppend's sort keys against its targetlist during createplan.c. Backpatch to 9.3. In older versions, columns of an appendrel get added to its targetlist even if they're not mentioned above the scan level, so that the failure doesn't occur. It might be worth back-patching this fix to older versions anyway, but I'll refrain for the moment.
2015-08-06Further fixes for degenerate outer join clauses.Tom Lane
Further testing revealed that commit f69b4b9495269cc4 was still a few bricks shy of a load: minor tweaking of the previous test cases resulted in the same wrong-outer-join-order problem coming back. After study I concluded that my previous changes in make_outerjoininfo() were just accidentally masking the problem, and should be reverted in favor of forcing syntactic join order whenever an upper outer join's predicate doesn't mention a lower outer join's LHS. This still allows the chained-outer-joins style that is the normally optimizable case. I also tightened things up some more in join_is_legal(). It seems to me on review that what's really happening in the exception case where we ignore a mismatched special join is that we're allowing the proposed join to associate into the RHS of the outer join we're comparing it to. As such, we should *always* insist that the proposed join be a left join, which eliminates a bunch of rather dubious argumentation. The case where we weren't enforcing that was the one that was already known buggy anyway (it had a violatable Assert before the aforesaid commit) so it hardly deserves a lot of deference. Back-patch to all active branches, like the previous patch. The added regression test case failed in all branches back to 9.1, and I think it's only an unrelated change in costing calculations that kept 9.0 from choosing a broken plan.
2015-08-05Make real sure we don't reassociate joins into or out of SEMI/ANTI joins.Tom Lane
Per the discussion in optimizer/README, it's unsafe to reassociate anything into or out of the RHS of a SEMI or ANTI join. An example from Piotr Stefaniak showed that join_is_legal() wasn't sufficiently enforcing this rule, so lock it down a little harder. I couldn't find a reasonably simple example of the optimizer trying to do this, so no new regression test. (Piotr's example involved the random search in GEQO accidentally trying an invalid case and triggering a sanity check way downstream in clause selectivity estimation, which did not seem like a sequence of events that would be useful to memorialize in a regression test as-is.) Back-patch to all active branches.
2015-08-04Fix a PlaceHolderVar-related oversight in star-schema planning patch.Tom Lane
In commit b514a7460d9127ddda6598307272c701cbb133b7, I changed the planner so that it would allow nestloop paths to remain partially parameterized, ie the inner relation might need parameters from both the current outer relation and some upper-level outer relation. That's fine so long as we're talking about distinct parameters; but the patch also allowed creation of nestloop paths for cases where the inner relation's parameter was a PlaceHolderVar whose eval_at set included the current outer relation and some upper-level one. That does *not* work. In principle we could allow such a PlaceHolderVar to be evaluated at the lower join node using values passed down from the upper relation along with values from the join's own outer relation. However, nodeNestloop.c only supports simple Vars not arbitrary expressions as nestloop parameters. createplan.c is also a few bricks shy of being able to handle such cases; it misplaces the PlaceHolderVar parameters in the plan tree, which is why the visible symptoms of this bug are "plan should not reference subplan's variable" and "failed to assign all NestLoopParams to plan nodes" planner errors. Adding the necessary complexity to make this work doesn't seem like it would be repaid in significantly better plans, because in cases where such a PHV exists, there is probably a corresponding join order constraint that would allow a good plan to be found without using the star-schema exception. Furthermore, adding complexity to nodeNestloop.c would create a run-time penalty even for plans where this whole consideration is irrelevant. So let's just reject such paths instead. Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich; the added regression test is based on his example query. Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous patch.
2015-08-01Fix some planner issues with degenerate outer join clauses.Tom Lane
An outer join clause that didn't actually reference the RHS (perhaps only after constant-folding) could confuse the join order enforcement logic, leading to wrong query results. Also, nested occurrences of such things could trigger an Assertion that on reflection seems incorrect. Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich. The practical use of such cases seems thin enough that it's not too surprising we've not heard field reports about it. This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all active branches.
2015-08-01Teach predtest.c that "foo" implies "foo IS NOT NULL".Tom Lane
Per complaint from Peter Holzer. It's useful to cover this special case, since for a boolean variable "foo", earlier parts of the planner will have reduced variants like "foo = true" to just "foo", and thus we may fail to recognize the applicability of a partial index with predicate "foo IS NOT NULL". Back-patch to 9.5, but not further; given the lack of previous complaints this doesn't seem like behavior to change in stable branches.
2015-07-31Fix an oversight in checking whether a join with LATERAL refs is legal.Tom Lane
In many cases, we can implement a semijoin as a plain innerjoin by first passing the righthand-side relation through a unique-ification step. However, one of the cases where this does NOT work is where the RHS has a LATERAL reference to the LHS; that makes the RHS dependent on the LHS so that unique-ification is meaningless. joinpath.c understood this, and so would not generate any join paths of this kind ... but join_is_legal neglected to check for the case, so it would think that we could do it. The upshot would be a "could not devise a query plan for the given query" failure once we had failed to generate any join paths at all for the bogus join pair. Back-patch to 9.3 where LATERAL was added.
2015-07-30Avoid some zero-divide hazards in the planner.Tom Lane
Although I think on all modern machines floating division by zero results in Infinity not SIGFPE, we still don't want infinities running around in the planner's costing estimates; too much risk of that leading to insane behavior. grouping_planner() failed to consider the possibility that final_rel might be known dummy and hence have zero rowcount. (I wonder if it would be better to set a rows estimate of 1 for dummy relations? But at least in the back branches, changing this convention seems like a bad idea, so I'll leave that for another day.) Make certain that get_variable_numdistinct() produces a nonzero result. The case that can be shown to be broken is with stadistinct < 0.0 and small ntuples; we did not prevent the result from rounding to zero. For good luck I applied clamp_row_est() to all the nonconstant return values. In ExecChooseHashTableSize(), Assert that we compute positive nbuckets and nbatch. I know of no reason to think this isn't the case, but it seems like a good safety check. Per reports from Piotr Stefaniak. Back-patch to all active branches.
2015-07-28Remove an unsafe Assert, and explain join_clause_is_movable_into() better.Tom Lane
join_clause_is_movable_into() is approximate, in the sense that it might sometimes return "false" when actually it would be valid to push the given join clause down to the specified level. This is okay ... but there was an Assert in get_joinrel_parampathinfo() that's only safe if the answers are always exact. Comment out the Assert, and add a bunch of commentary to clarify what's going on. Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich. The added regression test is a pretty silly query, but it's based on his crasher example. Back-patch to 9.2 where the faulty logic was introduced.
2015-07-26Fix oversight in flattening of subqueries with empty FROM.Tom Lane
I missed a restriction that commit f4abd0241de20d5d6a79b84992b9e88603d44134 should have enforced: we can't pull up an empty-FROM subquery if it's under an outer join, because then we'd need to wrap its output columns in PlaceHolderVars. As the code currently stands, the PHVs end up with empty relid sets, which doesn't work (and is correctly caught by an Assert). It's possible that this could be fixed by assigning the PHVs the relid sets of the parent FromExpr/JoinExpr, but getting that to work is more complication than I care to add right now; indeed it's likely that we'll never bother, since pulling up empty-FROM subqueries is a rather marginal optimization anyway. Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to 9.5 where the faulty code was added.
2015-07-26Make entirely-dummy appendrels get marked as such in set_append_rel_size.Tom Lane
The planner generally expects that the estimated rowcount of any relation is at least one row, *unless* it has been proven empty by constraint exclusion or similar mechanisms, which is marked by installing a dummy path as the rel's cheapest path (cf. IS_DUMMY_REL). When I split up allpaths.c's processing of base rels into separate set_base_rel_sizes and set_base_rel_pathlists steps, the intention was that dummy rels would get marked as such during the "set size" step; this is what justifies an Assert in indxpath.c's get_loop_count that other relations should either be dummy or have positive rowcount. Unfortunately I didn't get that quite right for append relations: if all the child rels have been proven empty then set_append_rel_size would come up with a rowcount of zero, which is correct, but it didn't then do set_dummy_rel_pathlist. (We would have ended up with the right state after set_append_rel_pathlist, but that's too late, if we generate indexpaths for some other rel first.) In addition to fixing the actual bug, I installed an Assert enforcing this convention in set_rel_size; that then allows simplification of a couple of now-redundant tests for zero rowcount in set_append_rel_size. Also, to cover the possibility that third-party FDWs have been careless about not returning a zero rowcount estimate, apply clamp_row_est to whatever an FDW comes up with as the rows estimate. Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to 9.2. Earlier branches did not have the separation between set_base_rel_sizes and set_base_rel_pathlists steps, so there was no intermediate state where an appendrel would have had inconsistent rowcount and pathlist. It's possible that adding the Assert to set_rel_size would be a good idea in older branches too; but since they're not under development any more, it's likely not worth the trouble.
2015-07-26Check the relevant index element in ON CONFLICT unique index inference.Andres Freund
ON CONFLICT unique index inference had a thinko that could affect cases where the user-supplied inference clause required that an attribute match a particular (user specified) collation and/or opclass. infer_collation_opclass_match() has to check for opclass and/or collation matches and that the attribute is in the list of attributes or expressions known to be in the definition of the index under consideration. The bug was that these two conditions weren't necessarily evaluated for the same index attribute. Author: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: CAM3SWZR4uug=WvmGk7UgsqHn2MkEzy9YU-+8jKGO4JPhesyeWg@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
2015-07-26Allow to push down clauses from HAVING to WHERE when grouping sets are used.Andres Freund
Previously we disallowed pushing down quals to WHERE in the presence of grouping sets. That's overly restrictive. We now instead copy quals to WHERE if applicable, leaving the one in HAVING in place. That's because, at that stage of the planning process, it's nontrivial to determine if it's safe to remove the one in HAVING. Author: Andrew Gierth Discussion: 874mkt3l59.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced. This isn't exactly a bugfix, but it seems better to keep the branches in sync at this point.
2015-07-26Recognize GROUPING() as a aggregate expression.Andres Freund
Previously GROUPING() was not recognized as a aggregate expression, erroneously allowing the planner to move it from HAVING to WHERE. Author: Jeevan Chalke Reviewed-By: Andrew Gierth Discussion: CAM2+6=WG9omG5rFOMAYBweJxmpTaapvVp5pCeMrE6BfpCwr4Og@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced
2015-07-26Build column mapping for grouping sets in all required cases.Andres Freund
The previous coding frequently failed to fail because for one it's unusual to have rollup clauses with one column, and for another sometimes the wrong mapping didn't cause obvious problems. Author: Jeevan Chalke Reviewed-By: Andrew Gierth Discussion: CAM2+6=W=9=hQOipH0HAPbkun3Z3TFWij_EiHue0_6UX=oR=1kw@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced
2015-07-25Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review.Tom Lane
The original implementation of TABLESAMPLE modeled the tablesample method API on index access methods, which wasn't a good choice because, without specialized DDL commands, there's no way to build an extension that can implement a TSM. (Raw inserts into system catalogs are not an acceptable thing to do, because we can't undo them during DROP EXTENSION, nor will pg_upgrade behave sanely.) Instead adopt an API more like procedural language handlers or foreign data wrappers, wherein the only SQL-level support object needed is a single handler function identified by having a special return type. This lets us get rid of the supporting catalog altogether, so that no custom DDL support is needed for the feature. Adjust the API so that it can support non-constant tablesample arguments (the original coding assumed we could evaluate the argument expressions at ExecInitSampleScan time, which is undesirable even if it weren't outright unsafe), and discourage sampling methods from looking at invisible tuples. Make sure that the BERNOULLI and SYSTEM methods are genuinely repeatable within and across queries, as required by the SQL standard, and deal more honestly with methods that can't support that requirement. Make a full code-review pass over the tablesample additions, and fix assorted bugs, omissions, infelicities, and cosmetic issues (such as failure to put the added code stanzas in a consistent ordering). Improve EXPLAIN's output of tablesample plans, too. Back-patch to 9.5 so that we don't have to support the original API in production.
2015-07-24Make RLS work with UPDATE ... WHERE CURRENT OFJoe Conway
UPDATE ... WHERE CURRENT OF would not work in conjunction with RLS. Arrange to allow the CURRENT OF expression to be pushed down. Issue noted by Peter Geoghegan. Patch by Dean Rasheed. Back patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
2015-07-21Fix add_rte_to_flat_rtable() for recent feature additions.Tom Lane
The TABLESAMPLE and row security patches each overlooked this function, though their errors of omission were opposite: RLS failed to zero out the securityQuals field, leading to wasteful copying of useless expression trees in finished plans, while TABLESAMPLE neglected to add a comment saying that it intentionally *isn't* deleting the tablesample subtree. There probably should be a similar comment about ctename, too. Back-patch as appropriate.
2015-07-16Fix spelling errorMagnus Hagander
David Rowley
2015-07-12For consistency add a pfree to ON CONFLICT set_plan_refs code.Andres Freund
Backpatch to 9.5 where ON CONFLICT was introduced. Author: Peter Geoghegan
2015-06-27Fix typo in commentHeikki Linnakangas
Etsuro Fujita
2015-06-26Improve handling of CustomPath/CustomPlan(State) children.Robert Haas
Allow CustomPath to have a list of paths, CustomPlan a list of plans, and CustomPlanState a list of planstates known to the core system, so that custom path/plan providers can more reasonably use this infrastructure for nodes with multiple children. KaiGai Kohei, per a design suggestion from Tom Lane, with some further kibitzing by me.
2015-06-23Update get_relation_info comment.Robert Haas
Thomas Munro
2015-06-22Improve inheritance_planner()'s performance for large inheritance sets.Tom Lane
Commit c03ad5602f529787968fa3201b35c119bbc6d782 introduced a planner performance regression for UPDATE/DELETE on large inheritance sets. It required copying the append_rel_list (which is of size proportional to the number of inherited tables) once for each inherited table, thus resulting in O(N^2) time and memory consumption. While it's difficult to avoid that in general, the extra work only has to be done for append_rel_list entries that actually reference subquery RTEs, which inheritance-set entries will not. So we can buy back essentially all of the loss in cases without subqueries in FROM; and even for those, the added work is mainly proportional to the number of UNION ALL subqueries. Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous commit. Tom Lane and Dean Rasheed, per a complaint from Thomas Munro.
2015-06-03Fix some questionable edge-case behaviors in add_path() and friends.Tom Lane
add_path_precheck was doing exact comparisons of path costs, but it really needs to do them fuzzily to be sure it won't reject paths that could survive add_path's comparisons. (This can only matter if the initial cost estimate is very close to the final one, but that turns out to often be true.) Also, it should ignore startup cost for this purpose if and only if compare_path_costs_fuzzily would do so. The previous coding always ignored startup cost for parameterized paths, which is wrong as of commit 3f59be836c555fa6; it could result in improper early rejection of paths that we care about for SEMI/ANTI joins. It also always considered startup cost for unparameterized paths, which is just as wrong though the only effect is to waste planner cycles on paths that can't survive. Instead, it should consider startup cost only when directed to by the consider_startup/ consider_param_startup relation flags. Likewise, compare_path_costs_fuzzily should have symmetrical behavior for parameterized and unparameterized paths. In this case, the best answer seems to be that after establishing that total costs are fuzzily equal, we should compare startup costs whether or not the consider_xxx flags are on. That is what it's always done for unparameterized paths, so let's make the behavior for parameterized paths match. These issues were noted while developing the SEMI/ANTI join costing fix of commit 3f59be836c555fa6, but we chose not to back-patch these fixes, because they can cause changes in the planner's choices among nearly-same-cost plans. (There is in fact one minor change in plan choice within the core regression tests.) Destabilizing plan choices in back branches without very clear improvements is frowned on, so we'll just fix this in HEAD.
2015-06-03Fix planner's cost estimation for SEMI/ANTI joins with inner indexscans.Tom Lane
When the inner side of a nestloop SEMI or ANTI join is an indexscan that uses all the join clauses as indexquals, it can be presumed that both matched and unmatched outer rows will be processed very quickly: for matched rows, we'll stop after fetching one row from the indexscan, while for unmatched rows we'll have an indexscan that finds no matching index entries, which should also be quick. The planner already knew about this, but it was nonetheless charging for at least one full run of the inner indexscan, as a consequence of concerns about the behavior of materialized inner scans --- but those concerns don't apply in the fast case. If the inner side has low cardinality (many matching rows) this could make an indexscan plan look far more expensive than it actually is. To fix, rearrange the work in initial_cost_nestloop/final_cost_nestloop so that we don't add the inner scan cost until we've inspected the indexquals, and then we can add either the full-run cost or just the first tuple's cost as appropriate. Experimentation with this fix uncovered another problem: add_path and friends were coded to disregard cheap startup cost when considering parameterized paths. That's usually okay (and desirable, because it thins the path herd faster); but in this fast case for SEMI/ANTI joins, it could result in throwing away the desired plain indexscan path in favor of a bitmap scan path before we ever get to the join costing logic. In the many-matching-rows cases of interest here, a bitmap scan will do a lot more work than required, so this is a problem. To fix, add a per-relation flag consider_param_startup that works like the existing consider_startup flag, but applies to parameterized paths, and set it for relations that are the inside of a SEMI or ANTI join. To make this patch reasonably safe to back-patch, care has been taken to avoid changing the planner's behavior except in the very narrow case of SEMI/ANTI joins with inner indexscans. There are places in compare_path_costs_fuzzily and add_path_precheck that are not terribly consistent with the new approach, but changing them will affect planner decisions at the margins in other cases, so we'll leave that for a HEAD-only fix. Back-patch to 9.3; before that, the consider_startup flag didn't exist, meaning that the second aspect of the patch would be too invasive. Per a complaint from Peter Holzer and analysis by Tomas Vondra.
2015-05-24Manual cleanup of pgindent results.Tom Lane
Fix some places where pgindent did silly stuff, often because project style wasn't followed to begin with. (I've not touched the atomics headers, though.)
2015-05-23pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian
2015-05-23Remove the new UPSERT command tag and use INSERT instead.Andres Freund
Previously, INSERT with ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE specified used a new command tag -- UPSERT. It was introduced out of concern that INSERT as a command tag would be a misrepresentation for ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE, as some affected rows may actually have been updated. Alvaro Herrera noticed that the implementation of that new command tag was incomplete; in subsequent discussion we concluded that having it doesn't provide benefits that are in line with the compatibility breaks it requires. Catversion bump due to the removal of PlannedStmt->isUpsert. Author: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: 20150520215816.GI5885@postgresql.org
2015-05-21More fixes for lossy-GiST-distance-functions patch.Tom Lane
Paul Ramsey reported that commit 35fcb1b3d038a501f3f4c87c05630095abaaadab induced a core dump on commuted ORDER BY expressions, because it was assuming that the indexorderby expression could be found verbatim in the relevant equivalence class, but it wasn't there. We really don't need anything that complicated anyway; for the data types likely to be used for index ORDER BY operators in the foreseeable future, the exprType() of the ORDER BY expression will serve fine. (The case where we'd have to work harder is where the ORDER BY expression's result is only binary-compatible with the declared input type of the ordering operator; long before worrying about that, one would need to get rid of GiST's hard-wired assumption that said datatype is float8.) Aside from fixing that crash and adding a regression test for the case, I did some desultory code review: nodeIndexscan.c was likewise overthinking how hard it ought to work to identify the datatype of the ORDER BY expressions. Add comments explaining how come nodeIndexscan.c can get away with simplifying assumptions about NULLS LAST ordering and no backward scan. Revert no-longer-needed changes of find_ec_member_for_tle(); while the new definition was no worse than the old, it wasn't better either, and it might cause back-patching pain. Revert entirely bogus additions to genam.h.
2015-05-20Collection of typo fixes.Heikki Linnakangas
Use "a" and "an" correctly, mostly in comments. Two error messages were also fixed (they were just elogs, so no translation work required). Two function comments in pg_proc.h were also fixed. Etsuro Fujita reported one of these, but I found a lot more with grep. Also fix a few other typos spotted while grepping for the a/an typos. For example, "consists out of ..." -> "consists of ...". Plus a "though"/ "through" mixup reported by Euler Taveira. Many of these typos were in old code, which would be nice to backpatch to make future backpatching easier. But much of the code was new, and I didn't feel like crafting separate patches for each branch. So no backpatching.
2015-05-19Refactor ON CONFLICT index inference parse tree representation.Andres Freund
Defer lookup of opfamily and input type of a of a user specified opclass until the optimizer selects among available unique indexes; and store the opclass in the parse analyzed tree instead. The primary reason for doing this is that for rule deparsing it's easier to use the opclass than the previous representation. While at it also rename a variable in the inference code to better fit it's purpose. This is separate from the actual fixes for deparsing to make review easier.
2015-05-17Fix failure to copy IndexScan.indexorderbyops in copyfuncs.c.Tom Lane
This oversight results in a crash at executor startup if the plan has been copied. outfuncs.c was missed as well. While we could probably have taught both those files to cope with the originally chosen representation of an Oid array, it would have been painful, not least because there'd be no easy way to verify the array length. An Oid List is far easier to work with. And AFAICS, there is no particular notational benefit to using an array rather than a list in the existing parts of the patch either. So just change it to a list. Error in commit 35fcb1b3d038a501f3f4c87c05630095abaaadab, which is new, so no need for back-patch.
2015-05-16Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.Andres Freund
This SQL standard functionality allows to aggregate data by different GROUP BY clauses at once. Each grouping set returns rows with columns grouped by in other sets set to NULL. This could previously be achieved by doing each grouping as a separate query, conjoined by UNION ALLs. Besides being considerably more concise, grouping sets will in many cases be faster, requiring only one scan over the underlying data. The current implementation of grouping sets only supports using sorting for input. Individual sets that share a sort order are computed in one pass. If there are sets that don't share a sort order, additional sort & aggregation steps are performed. These additional passes are sourced by the previous sort step; thus avoiding repeated scans of the source data. The code is structured in a way that adding support for purely using hash aggregation or a mix of hashing and sorting is possible. Sorting was chosen to be supported first, as it is the most generic method of implementation. Instead of, as in an earlier versions of the patch, representing the chain of sort and aggregation steps as full blown planner and executor nodes, all but the first sort are performed inside the aggregation node itself. This avoids the need to do some unusual gymnastics to handle having to return aggregated and non-aggregated tuples from underlying nodes, as well as having to shut down underlying nodes early to limit memory usage. The optimizer still builds Sort/Agg node to describe each phase, but they're not part of the plan tree, but instead additional data for the aggregation node. They're a convenient and preexisting way to describe aggregation and sorting. The first (and possibly only) sort step is still performed as a separate execution step. That retains similarity with existing group by plans, makes rescans fairly simple, avoids very deep plans (leading to slow explains) and easily allows to avoid the sorting step if the underlying data is sorted by other means. A somewhat ugly side of this patch is having to deal with a grammar ambiguity between the new CUBE keyword and the cube extension/functions named cube (and rollup). To avoid breaking existing deployments of the cube extension it has not been renamed, neither has cube been made a reserved keyword. Instead precedence hacking is used to make GROUP BY cube(..) refer to the CUBE grouping sets feature, and not the function cube(). To actually group by a function cube(), unlikely as that might be, the function name has to be quoted. Needs a catversion bump because stored rules may change. Author: Andrew Gierth and Atri Sharma, with contributions from Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Tom Lane, Svenne Krap, Tomas Vondra, Erik Rijkers, Marti Raudsepp, Pavel Stehule Discussion: CAOeZVidmVRe2jU6aMk_5qkxnB7dfmPROzM7Ur8JPW5j8Y5X-Lw@mail.gmail.com
2015-05-15Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.hAlvaro Herrera
For upcoming BRIN opclasses, it's convenient to have strategy numbers defined in a single place. Since there's nothing appropriate, create it. The StrategyNumber typedef now lives there, as well as existing strategy numbers for B-trees (from skey.h) and R-tree-and-friends (from gist.h). skey.h is forced to include stratnum.h because of the StrategyNumber typedef, but gist.h is not; extensions that currently rely on gist.h for rtree strategy numbers might need to add a new A few .c files can stop including skey.h and/or gist.h, which is a nice side benefit. Per discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150514232132.GZ2523@alvh.no-ip.org Authored by Emre Hasegeli and Álvaro. (It's not clear to me why bootscanner.l has any #include lines at all.)
2015-05-15TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensibleSimon Riggs
Add a TABLESAMPLE clause to SELECT statements that allows user to specify random BERNOULLI sampling or block level SYSTEM sampling. Implementation allows for extensible sampling functions to be written, using a standard API. Basic version follows SQLStandard exactly. Usable concrete use cases for the sampling API follow in later commits. Petr Jelinek Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
2015-05-15Allow GiST distance function to return merely a lower-bound.Heikki Linnakangas
The distance function can now set *recheck = false, like index quals. The executor will then re-check the ORDER BY expressions, and use a queue to reorder the results on the fly. This makes it possible to do kNN-searches on polygons and circles, which don't store the exact value in the index, but just a bounding box. Alexander Korotkov and me
2015-05-13Fix ON CONFLICT bugs that manifest when used in rules.Andres Freund
Specifically the tlist and rti of the pseudo "excluded" relation weren't properly treated by expression_tree_walker, which lead to errors when excluded was referenced inside a rule because the varnos where not properly adjusted. Similar omissions in OffsetVarNodes and expression_tree_mutator had less impact, but should obviously be fixed nonetheless. A couple tests of for ON CONFLICT UPDATE into INSERT rule bearing relations have been added. In passing I updated a couple comments.
2015-05-12Add support for doing late row locking in FDWs.Tom Lane
Previously, FDWs could only do "early row locking", that is lock a row as soon as it's fetched, even though local restriction/join conditions might discard the row later. This patch adds callbacks that allow FDWs to do late locking in the same way that it's done for regular tables. To make use of this feature, an FDW must support the "ctid" column as a unique row identifier. Currently, since ctid has to be of type TID, the feature is of limited use, though in principle it could be used by postgres_fdw. We may eventually allow FDWs to specify another data type for ctid, which would make it possible for more FDWs to use this feature. This commit does not modify postgres_fdw to use late locking. We've tested some prototype code for that, but it's not in committable shape, and besides it's quite unclear whether it actually makes sense to do late locking against a remote server. The extra round trips required are likely to outweigh any benefit from improved concurrency. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat, and hacked up a lot by me
2015-05-10Code review for foreign/custom join pushdown patch.Tom Lane
Commit e7cb7ee14555cc9c5773e2c102efd6371f6f2005 included some design decisions that seem pretty questionable to me, and there was quite a lot of stuff not to like about the documentation and comments. Clean up as follows: * Consider foreign joins only between foreign tables on the same server, rather than between any two foreign tables with the same underlying FDW handler function. In most if not all cases, the FDW would simply have had to apply the same-server restriction itself (far more expensively, both for lack of caching and because it would be repeated for each combination of input sub-joins), or else risk nasty bugs. Anyone who's really intent on doing something outside this restriction can always use the set_join_pathlist_hook. * Rename fdw_ps_tlist/custom_ps_tlist to fdw_scan_tlist/custom_scan_tlist to better reflect what they're for, and allow these custom scan tlists to be used even for base relations. * Change make_foreignscan() API to include passing the fdw_scan_tlist value, since the FDW is required to set that. Backwards compatibility doesn't seem like an adequate reason to expect FDWs to set it in some ad-hoc extra step, and anyway existing FDWs can just pass NIL. * Change the API of path-generating subroutines of add_paths_to_joinrel, and in particular that of GetForeignJoinPaths and set_join_pathlist_hook, so that various less-used parameters are passed in a struct rather than as separate parameter-list entries. The objective here is to reduce the probability that future additions to those parameter lists will result in source-level API breaks for users of these hooks. It's possible that this is even a small win for the core code, since most CPU architectures can't pass more than half a dozen parameters efficiently anyway. I kept root, joinrel, outerrel, innerrel, and jointype as separate parameters to reduce code churn in joinpath.c --- in particular, putting jointype into the struct would have been problematic because of the subroutines' habit of changing their local copies of that variable. * Avoid ad-hocery in ExecAssignScanProjectionInfo. It was probably all right for it to know about IndexOnlyScan, but if the list is to grow we should refactor the knowledge out to the callers. * Restore nodeForeignscan.c's previous use of the relcache to avoid extra GetFdwRoutine lookups for base-relation scans. * Lots of cleanup of documentation and missed comments. Re-order some code additions into more logical places.
2015-05-08Fix two problems in infer_arbiter_indexes().Andres Freund
The first is a pretty simple bug where a relcache entry is used after the relation is closed. In this particular situation it does not appear to have bad consequences unless compiled with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE. The second is that infer_arbiter_indexes() skipped indexes that aren't yet valid according to indcheckxmin. That's not required here, because uniqueness checks don't care about visibility according to an older snapshot. While thats not really a bug, it makes things undesirably non-deterministic. There is some hope that this explains a test failure on buildfarm member jaguarundi. Discussion: 9096.1431102730@sss.pgh.pa.us