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2012-04-26Fix oversight in recent parameterized-path patch.Tom Lane
bitmap_scan_cost_est() has to be able to cope with a BitmapOrPath, but I'd taken a shortcut that didn't work for that case. Noted by Heikki. Add some regression tests since this area is evidently under-covered.
2012-04-25Fix planner's handling of RETURNING lists in writable CTEs.Tom Lane
setrefs.c failed to do "rtoffset" adjustment of Vars in RETURNING lists, which meant they were left with the wrong varnos when the RETURNING list was in a subquery. That was never possible before writable CTEs, of course, but now it's broken. The executor fails to notice any problem because ExecEvalVar just references the ecxt_scantuple for any normal varno; but EXPLAIN breaks when the varno is wrong, as illustrated in a recent complaint from Bartosz Dmytrak. Since the eventual rtoffset of the subquery is not known at the time we are preparing its plan node, the previous scheme of executing set_returning_clause_references() at that time cannot handle this adjustment. Fortunately, it turns out that we don't really need to do it that way, because all the needed information is available during normal setrefs.c execution; we just have to dig it out of the ModifyTable node. So, do that, and get rid of the kluge of early setrefs processing of RETURNING lists. (This is a little bit of a cheat in the case of inherited UPDATE/DELETE, because we are not passing a "root" struct that corresponds exactly to what the subplan was built with. But that doesn't matter, and anyway this is less ugly than early setrefs processing was.) Back-patch to 9.1, where the problem became possible to hit.
2012-04-21Use fuzzy not exact cost comparison for the final tie-breaker in add_path.Tom Lane
Instead of an exact cost comparison, use a fuzzy comparison with 1e-10 delta after all other path metrics have proved equal. This is to avoid having platform-specific roundoff behaviors determine the choice when two paths are really the same to our cost estimators. Adjust the recently-added test case that made it obvious we had a problem here.
2012-04-20Adjust join_search_one_level's handling of clauseless joins.Tom Lane
For an initial relation that lacks any join clauses (that is, it has to be cartesian-product-joined to the rest of the query), we considered only cartesian joins with initial rels appearing later in the initial-relations list. This creates an undesirable dependency on FROM-list order. We would never fail to find a plan, but perhaps we might not find the best available plan. Noted while discussing the logic with Amit Kapila. Improve the comments a bit in this area, too. Arguably this is a bug fix, but given the lack of complaints from the field I'll refrain from back-patching.
2012-04-19Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues.Tom Lane
This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
2012-04-13Remove the "last ditch" code path in join_search_one_level().Tom Lane
So far as I can tell, it is no longer possible for this heuristic to do anything useful, because the new weaker definition of have_relevant_joinclause means that any relation with a joinclause must be considered joinable to at least one other relation. It would still be possible for the code block to be entered, for example if there are join order restrictions that prevent any join of the current level from being formed; but in that case it's just a waste of cycles to attempt to form cartesian joins, since the restrictions will still apply. Furthermore, IMO the existence of this code path can mask bugs elsewhere; we would have noticed the problem with cartesian joins a lot sooner if this code hadn't compensated for it in the simplest case. Accordingly, let's remove it and see what happens. I'm committing this separately from the prerequisite changes in have_relevant_joinclause, just to make the question easier to revisit if there is some fault in my logic.
2012-04-13Weaken the planner's tests for relevant joinclauses.Tom Lane
We should be willing to cross-join two small relations if that allows us to use an inner indexscan on a large relation (that is, the potential indexqual for the large table requires both smaller relations). This worked in simple cases but fell apart as soon as there was a join clause to a fourth relation, because the existence of any two-relation join clause caused the planner to not consider clauseless joins between other base relations. The added regression test shows an example case adapted from a recent complaint from Benoit Delbosc. Adjust have_relevant_joinclause, have_relevant_eclass_joinclause, and has_relevant_eclass_joinclause to consider that a join clause mentioning three or more relations is sufficient grounds for joining any subset of those relations, even if we have to do so via a cartesian join. Since such clauses are relatively uncommon, this shouldn't affect planning speed on typical queries; in fact it should help a bit, because the latter two functions in particular get significantly simpler. Although this is arguably a bug fix, I'm not going to risk back-patching it, since it might have currently-unforeseen consequences.
2012-04-11Fix cost estimation for indexscan filter conditions.Tom Lane
cost_index's method for estimating per-tuple costs of evaluating filter conditions (a/k/a qpquals) was completely wrong in the presence of derived indexable conditions, such as range conditions derived from a LIKE clause. This was largely masked in common cases as a result of all simple operator clauses having about the same costs, but it could show up in a big way when dealing with functional indexes containing expensive functions, as seen for example in bug #6579 from Istvan Endredy. Rejigger the calculation to give sane answers when the indexquals aren't a subset of the baserestrictinfo list. As a side benefit, we now do the calculation properly for cases involving join clauses (ie, parameterized indexscans), which we always overestimated before. There are still cases where this is an oversimplification, such as clauses that can be dropped because they are implied by a partial index's predicate. But we've never accounted for that in cost estimates before, and I'm not convinced it's worth the cycles to try to do so.
2012-03-27Add some infrastructure for contrib/pg_stat_statements.Tom Lane
Add a queryId field to Query and PlannedStmt. This is not used by the core backend, except for being copied around at appropriate times. It's meant to allow plug-ins to track a particular query forward from parse analysis to execution. The queryId is intentionally not dumped into stored rules (and hence this commit doesn't bump catversion). You could argue that choice either way, but it seems better that stored rule strings not have any dependency on plug-ins that might or might not be present. Also, add a post_parse_analyze_hook that gets invoked at the end of parse analysis (but only for top-level analysis of complete queries, not cases such as analyzing a domain's default-value expression). This is mainly meant to be used to compute and assign a queryId, but it could have other applications. Peter Geoghegan
2012-03-24Fix planner's handling of outer PlaceHolderVars within subqueries.Tom Lane
For some reason, in the original coding of the PlaceHolderVar mechanism I had supposed that PlaceHolderVars couldn't propagate into subqueries. That is of course entirely possible. When it happens, we need to treat an outer-level PlaceHolderVar much like an outer Var or Aggref, that is SS_replace_correlation_vars() needs to replace the PlaceHolderVar with a Param, and then when building the finished SubPlan we have to provide the PlaceHolderVar expression as an actual parameter for the SubPlan. The handling of the contained expression is a bit delicate but it can be treated exactly like an Aggref's expression. In addition to the missing logic in subselect.c, prepjointree.c was failing to search subqueries for PlaceHolderVars that need their relids adjusted during subquery pullup. It looks like everyplace else that touches PlaceHolderVars got it right, though. Per report from Mark Murawski. In 9.1 and HEAD, queries affected by this oversight would fail with "ERROR: Upper-level PlaceHolderVar found where not expected". But in 9.0 and 8.4, you'd silently get possibly-wrong answers, since the value transmitted into the subquery wouldn't go to null when it should.
2012-03-23Refactor simplify_function et al to centralize argument simplification.Tom Lane
We were doing the recursive simplification of function/operator arguments in half a dozen different places, with rather baroque logic to ensure it didn't get done multiple times on some arguments. This patch improves that by postponing argument simplification until after we've dealt with named parameters and added any needed default expressions. Marti Raudsepp, somewhat hacked on by me
2012-03-23Code review for protransform patches.Tom Lane
Fix loss of previous expression-simplification work when a transform function fires: we must not simply revert to untransformed input tree. Instead build a dummy FuncExpr node to pass to the transform function. This has the additional advantage of providing a simpler, more uniform API for transform functions. Move documentation to a somewhat less buried spot, relocate some poorly-placed code, be more wary of null constants and invalid typmod values, add an opr_sanity check on protransform function signatures, and some other minor cosmetic adjustments. Note: although this patch touches pg_proc.h, no need for catversion bump, because the changes are cosmetic and don't actually change the intended catalog contents.
2012-03-21Clean up compiler warnings from unused variables with asserts disabledPeter Eisentraut
For those variables only used when asserts are enabled, use a new macro PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY, which expands to __attribute__((unused)) when asserts are not enabled.
2012-03-19Restructure SELECT INTO's parsetree representation into CreateTableAsStmt.Tom Lane
Making this operation look like a utility statement seems generally a good idea, and particularly so in light of the desire to provide command triggers for utility statements. The original choice of representing it as SELECT with an IntoClause appendage had metastasized into rather a lot of places, unfortunately, so that this patch is a great deal more complicated than one might at first expect. In particular, keeping EXPLAIN working for SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS subcommands required restructuring some EXPLAIN-related APIs. Add-on code that calls ExplainOnePlan or ExplainOneUtility, or uses ExplainOneQuery_hook, will need adjustment. Also, the cases PREPARE ... SELECT INTO and CREATE RULE ... SELECT INTO, which formerly were accepted though undocumented, are no longer accepted. The PREPARE case can be replaced with use of CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE. The CREATE RULE case doesn't seem to have much real-world use (since the rule would work only once before failing with "table already exists"), so we'll not bother with that one. Both SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS still return a command tag of "SELECT nnnn". There was some discussion of returning "CREATE TABLE nnnn", but for the moment backwards compatibility wins the day. Andres Freund and Tom Lane
2012-03-16Improve commentary in match_pathkeys_to_index().Tom Lane
For a little while there I thought match_pathkeys_to_index() was broken because it wasn't trying to match index columns to pathkeys in order. Actually that's correct, because GiST can support ordering operators on any random collection of index columns, but it sure needs a comment.
2012-03-16Revisit handling of UNION ALL subqueries with non-Var output columns.Tom Lane
In commit 57664ed25e5dea117158a2e663c29e60b3546e1c I tried to fix a bug reported by Teodor Sigaev by making non-simple-Var output columns distinct (by wrapping their expressions with dummy PlaceHolderVar nodes). This did not work too well. Commit b28ffd0fcc583c1811e5295279e7d4366c3cae6c fixed some ensuing problems with matching to child indexes, but per a recent report from Claus Stadler, constraint exclusion of UNION ALL subqueries was still broken, because constant-simplification didn't handle the injected PlaceHolderVars well either. On reflection, the original patch was quite misguided: there is no reason to expect that EquivalenceClass child members will be distinct. So instead of trying to make them so, we should ensure that we can cope with the situation when they're not. Accordingly, this patch reverts the code changes in the above-mentioned commits (though the regression test cases they added stay). Instead, I've added assorted defenses to make sure that duplicate EC child members don't cause any problems. Teodor's original problem ("MergeAppend child's targetlist doesn't match MergeAppend") is addressed more directly by revising prepare_sort_from_pathkeys to let the parent MergeAppend's sort list guide creation of each child's sort list. In passing, get rid of add_sort_column; as far as I can tell, testing for duplicate sort keys at this stage is dead code. Certainly it doesn't trigger often enough to be worth expending cycles on in ordinary queries. And keeping the test would've greatly complicated the new logic in prepare_sort_from_pathkeys, because comparing pathkey list entries against a previous output array requires that we not skip any entries in the list. Back-patch to 9.1, like the previous patches. The only known issue in this area that wasn't caused by the ill-advised previous patches was the MergeAppend planning failure, which of course is not relevant before 9.1. It's possible that we need some of the new defenses against duplicate child EC entries in older branches, but until there's some clear evidence of that I'm going to refrain from back-patching further.
2012-03-09Revise FDW planning API, again.Tom Lane
Further reflection shows that a single callback isn't very workable if we desire to let FDWs generate multiple Paths, because that forces the FDW to do all work necessary to generate a valid Plan node for each Path. Instead split the former PlanForeignScan API into three steps: GetForeignRelSize, GetForeignPaths, GetForeignPlan. We had already bit the bullet of breaking the 9.1 FDW API for 9.2, so this shouldn't cause very much additional pain, and it's substantially more flexible for complex FDWs. Add an fdw_private field to RelOptInfo so that the new functions can save state there rather than possibly having to recalculate information two or three times. In addition, we'd not thought through what would be needed to allow an FDW to set up subexpressions of its choice for runtime execution. We could treat ForeignScan.fdw_private as an executable expression but that seems likely to break existing FDWs unnecessarily (in particular, it would restrict the set of node types allowable in fdw_private to those supported by expression_tree_walker). Instead, invent a separate field fdw_exprs which will receive the postprocessing appropriate for expression trees. (One field is enough since it can be a list of expressions; also, we assume the corresponding expression state tree(s) will be held within fdw_state, so we don't need to add anything to ForeignScanState.) Per review of Hanada Shigeru's pgsql_fdw patch. We may need to tweak this further as we continue to work on that patch, but to me it feels a lot closer to being right now.
2012-03-07Expose an API for calculating catcache hash values.Tom Lane
Now that cache invalidation callbacks get only a hash value, and not a tuple TID (per commits 632ae6829f7abda34e15082c91d9dfb3fc0f298b and b5282aa893e565b7844f8237462cb843438cdd5e), the only way they can restrict what they invalidate is to know what the hash values mean. setrefs.c was doing this via a hard-wired assumption but that seems pretty grotty, and it'll only get worse as more cases come up. So let's expose a calculation function that takes the same parameters as SearchSysCache. Per complaint from Marko Kreen.
2012-03-05Redesign PlanForeignScan API to allow multiple paths for a foreign table.Tom Lane
The original API specification only allowed an FDW to create a single access path, which doesn't seem like a terribly good idea in hindsight. Instead, move the responsibility for building the Path node and calling add_path() into the FDW's PlanForeignScan function. Now, it can do that more than once if appropriate. There is no longer any need for the transient FdwPlan struct, so get rid of that. Etsuro Fujita, Shigeru Hanada, Tom Lane
2012-03-02Allow child-relation entries to be made in ec_has_const EquivalenceClasses.Tom Lane
This fixes an oversight in commit 11cad29c91524aac1d0b61e0ea0357398ab79bf8, which introduced MergeAppend plans. Before that happened, we never particularly cared about the sort ordering of scans of inheritance child relations, since appending their outputs together would destroy any ordering anyway. But now it's important to be able to match child relation sort orderings to those of the surrounding query. The original coding of add_child_rel_equivalences skipped ec_has_const EquivalenceClasses, on the originally-correct grounds that adding child expressions to them was useless. The effect of this is that when a parent variable is equated to a constant, we can't recognize that index columns on the equivalent child variables are not sort-significant; that is, we can't recognize that a child index on, say, (x, y) is able to generate output in "ORDER BY y" order when there is a clause "WHERE x = constant". Adding child expressions to the (x, constant) EquivalenceClass fixes this, without any downside that I can see other than a few more planner cycles expended on such queries. Per recent gripe from Robert McGehee. Back-patch to 9.1 where MergeAppend was introduced.
2012-02-28Fix thinko in new match_join_clauses_to_index() logic.Tom Lane
We don't need to constrain the other side of an indexable join clause to not be below an outer join; an example here is SELECT FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t1.a = t2.b LEFT JOIN t3 ON t2.c = t3.d; We can consider an inner indexscan on t3.d using c = d as indexqual, even though t2.c is potentially nulled by a previous outer join. The comparable logic in orindxpath.c has always worked that way, but I was being overly cautious here.
2012-02-14Preserve column names in the execution-time tupledesc for a RowExpr.Tom Lane
The hstore and json datatypes both have record-conversion functions that pay attention to column names in the composite values they're handed. We used to not worry about inserting correct field names into tuple descriptors generated at runtime, but given these examples it seems useful to do so. Observe the nicer-looking results in the regression tests whose results changed. catversion bump because there is a subtle change in requirements for stored rule parsetrees: RowExprs from ROW() constructs now have to include field names. Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane
2012-02-13Allow LEAKPROOF functions for better performance of security views.Robert Haas
We don't normally allow quals to be pushed down into a view created with the security_barrier option, but functions without side effects are an exception: they're OK. This allows much better performance in common cases, such as when using an equality operator (that might even be indexable). There is an outstanding issue here with the CREATE FUNCTION / ALTER FUNCTION syntax: there's no way to use ALTER FUNCTION to unset the leakproof flag. But I'm committing this as-is so that it doesn't have to be rebased again; we can fix up the grammar in a future commit. KaiGai Kohei, with some wordsmithing by me.
2012-02-02Allow spgist's text_ops to handle pattern-matching operators.Robert Haas
This was presumably intended to work this way all along, but a few key bits of indxpath.c didn't get the memo. Robert Haas and Tom Lane
2012-01-29Fix pushing of index-expression qualifications through UNION ALL.Tom Lane
In commit 57664ed25e5dea117158a2e663c29e60b3546e1c, I made the planner wrap non-simple-variable outputs of appendrel children (IOW, child SELECTs of UNION ALL subqueries) inside PlaceHolderVars, in order to solve some issues with EquivalenceClass processing. However, this means that any upper-level WHERE clauses mentioning such outputs will now contain PlaceHolderVars after they're pushed down into the appendrel child, and that prevents indxpath.c from recognizing that they could be matched to index expressions. To fix, add explicit stripping of PlaceHolderVars from index operands, same as we have long done for RelabelType nodes. Add a regression test covering both this and the plain-UNION case (which is a totally different code path, but should also be able to do it). Per bug #6416 from Matteo Beccati. Back-patch to 9.1, same as the previous change.
2012-01-28Fix handling of init_plans list in inheritance_planner().Tom Lane
Formerly we passed an empty list to each per-child-table invocation of grouping_planner, and then merged the results into the global list. However, that fails if there's a CTE attached to the statement, because create_ctescan_plan uses the list to find the plan referenced by a CTE reference; so it was unable to find any CTEs attached to the outer UPDATE or DELETE. But there's no real reason not to use the same list throughout the process, and doing so is simpler and faster anyway. Per report from Josh Berkus of "could not find plan for CTE" failures. Back-patch to 9.1 where we added support for WITH attached to UPDATE or DELETE. Add some regression test cases, too.
2012-01-27Undo 8.4-era lobotomization of subquery pullup rules.Tom Lane
After the planner was fixed to convert some IN/EXISTS subqueries into semijoins or antijoins, we had to prevent it from doing that in some cases where the plans risked getting much worse. The reason the plans got worse was that in the unoptimized implementation, subqueries could reference parameters from the outer query at any join level, and so full table scans could be avoided even if they were one or more levels of join below where the semi/anti join would be. Now that we have sufficient mechanism in the planner to handle such cases properly, it should no longer be necessary to play dumb here. This reverts commits 07b9936a0f10d746e5076239813a5e938f2f16be and cd1f0d04bf06938c0ee5728fc8424d62bcf2eef3. The latter was a stopgap fix that wasn't really sufficiently analyzed at the time. Rather than just restricting ourselves to cases where the new join can be stacked on the right-hand input, we should also consider whether it can be stacked on the left-hand input.
2012-01-27Use parameterized paths to generate inner indexscans more flexibly.Tom Lane
This patch fixes the planner so that it can generate nestloop-with- inner-indexscan plans even with one or more levels of joining between the indexscan and the nestloop join that is supplying the parameter. The executor was fixed to handle such cases some time ago, but the planner was not ready. This should improve our plans in many situations where join ordering restrictions formerly forced complete table scans. There is probably a fair amount of tuning work yet to be done, because of various heuristics that have been added to limit the number of parameterized paths considered. However, we are not going to find out what needs to be adjusted until the code gets some real-world use, so it's time to get it in there where it can be tested easily. Note API change for index AM amcostestimate functions. I'm not aware of any non-core index AMs, but if there are any, they will need minor adjustments.
2012-01-01Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian
2011-12-30Revert "Remove troublesome Asserts in cost_mergejoin()."Tom Lane
This reverts commit ff68b256a533b398e3420750f34d161aeee4e099. The recent change to use -fexcess-precision=standard should make those Asserts safe, and does fix a test case that formerly crashed for me, so I think there's no need to have a cross-version difference in the code here.
2011-12-24Rethink representation of index clauses' mapping to index columns.Tom Lane
In commit e2c2c2e8b1df7dfdb01e7e6f6191a569ce3c3195 I made use of nested list structures to show which clauses went with which index columns, but on reflection that's a data structure that only an old-line Lisp hacker could love. Worse, it adds unnecessary complication to the many places that don't much care which clauses go with which index columns. Revert to the previous arrangement of flat lists of clauses, and instead add a parallel integer list of column numbers. The places that care about the pairing can chase both lists with forboth(), while the places that don't care just examine one list the same as before. The only real downside to this is that there are now two more lists that need to be passed to amcostestimate functions in case they care about column matching (which btcostestimate does, so not passing the info is not an option). Rather than deal with 11-argument amcostestimate functions, pass just the IndexPath and expect the functions to extract fields from it. That gets us down to 7 arguments which is better than 11, and it seems more future-proof against likely additions to the information we keep about an index path.
2011-12-23Improve planner's handling of duplicated index column expressions.Tom Lane
It's potentially useful for an index to repeat the same indexable column or expression in multiple index columns, if the columns have different opclasses. (If they share opclasses too, the duplicate column is pretty useless, but nonetheless we've allowed such cases since 9.0.) However, the planner failed to cope with this, because createplan.c was relying on simple equal() matching to figure out which index column each index qual is intended for. We do have that information available upstream in indxpath.c, though, so the fix is to not flatten the multi-level indexquals list when putting it into an IndexPath. Then we can rely on the sublist structure to identify target index columns in createplan.c. There's a similar issue for index ORDER BYs (the KNNGIST feature), so introduce a multi-level-list representation for that too. This adds a bit more representational overhead, but we might more or less buy that back by not having to search for matching index columns anymore in createplan.c; likewise btcostestimate saves some cycles. Per bug #6351 from Christian Rudolph. Likely symptoms include the "btree index keys must be ordered by attribute" failure shown there, as well as "operator MMMM is not a member of opfamily NNNN". Although this is a pre-existing problem that can be demonstrated in 9.0 and 9.1, I'm not going to back-patch it, because the API changes in the planner seem likely to break things such as index plugins. The corner cases where this matters seem too narrow to justify possibly breaking things in a minor release.
2011-12-22Add a security_barrier option for views.Robert Haas
When a view is marked as a security barrier, it will not be pulled up into the containing query, and no quals will be pushed down into it, so that no function or operator chosen by the user can be applied to rows not exposed by the view. Views not configured with this option cannot provide robust row-level security, but will perform far better. Patch by KaiGai Kohei; original problem report by Heikki Linnakangas (in October 2009!). Review (in earlier versions) by Noah Misch and others. Design advice by Tom Lane and myself. Further review and cleanup by me.
2011-12-18Replace simple constant pg_am.amcanreturn with an AM support function.Tom Lane
The need for this was debated when we put in the index-only-scan feature, but at the time we had no near-term expectation of having AMs that could support such scans for only some indexes; so we kept it simple. However, the SP-GiST AM forces the issue, so let's fix it. This patch only installs the new API; no behavior actually changes.
2011-12-07Add const qualifiers to node inspection functionsPeter Eisentraut
Thomas Munro
2011-12-05Remove troublesome Asserts in cost_mergejoin().Tom Lane
While logically correct, these two Asserts could fail depending on the vagaries of floating-point arithmetic. In particular, on machines with floating-point registers wider than standard "double" values, it was possible for the compiler to compare a rounded-to-double value already stored in memory with an unrounded long double value still in a register. Given the preceding checks, these assertions aren't adding much, so let's just get rid of them rather than try to find a compiler-proof fix. Per report from Pavel Stehule. Given the lack of previous complaints, and the fact that only developers would be likely to trip over it, I'm only going to change this in HEAD, even though the code has been like this for a long time.
2011-11-28Make some minor formatting improvements to what pgindent did.Tom Lane
Moving the code two full tab stops to the right requires rethinking of cosmetic code layout choices, which pgindent isn't really able to do for us. Whitespace and comment adjustments only, no code changes.
2011-11-28Pgindent clauses.c, per request from Tom.Bruce Momjian
2011-11-28Convert eval_const_expressions's long series of IsA tests into a switch.Tom Lane
This function has now grown enough cases that a switch seems appropriate. This results in a measurable speed improvement on some platforms, and should certainly not hurt. The code's in need of a pgindent run now, though. Andres Freund
2011-11-27Ensure that whole-row junk Vars are always of composite type.Tom Lane
The EvalPlanQual machinery assumes that whole-row Vars generated for the outputs of non-table RTEs will be of composite types. However, for the case where the RTE is a function call returning a scalar type, we were doing the wrong thing, as a result of sharing code with a parser case where the function's scalar output is wanted. (Or at least, that's what that case has done historically; it does seem a bit inconsistent.) To fix, extend makeWholeRowVar's API so that it can support both use-cases. This fixes Belinda Cussen's report of crashes during concurrent execution of UPDATEs involving joins to the result of UNNEST() --- in READ COMMITTED mode, we'd run the EvalPlanQual machinery after a conflicting row update commits, and it was expecting to get a HeapTuple not a scalar datum from the "wholerowN" variable referencing the function RTE. Back-patch to 9.0 where the current EvalPlanQual implementation appeared. In 9.1 and up, this patch also fixes failure to attach the correct collation to the Var generated for a scalar-result case. An example: regression=# select upper(x.*) from textcat('ab', 'cd') x; ERROR: could not determine which collation to use for upper() function
2011-11-08Wrap appendrel member outputs in PlaceHolderVars in additional cases.Tom Lane
Add PlaceHolderVar wrappers as needed to make UNION ALL sub-select output expressions appear non-constant and distinct from each other. This makes the world safe for add_child_rel_equivalences to do what it does. Before, it was possible for that function to add identical expressions to different EquivalenceClasses, which logically should imply merging such ECs, which would be wrong; or to improperly add a constant to an EquivalenceClass, drastically changing its behavior. Per report from Teodor Sigaev. The only currently known consequence of this bug is "MergeAppend child's targetlist doesn't match MergeAppend" planner failures in 9.1 and later. I am suspicious that there may be other failure modes that could affect older release branches; but in the absence of any hard evidence, I'll refrain from back-patching further than 9.1.
2011-11-03Fix inline_set_returning_function() to allow multiple OUT parameters.Tom Lane
inline_set_returning_function failed to distinguish functions returning generic RECORD (which require a column list in the RTE, as well as run-time type checking) from those with multiple OUT parameters (which do not). This prevented inlining from happening. Per complaint from Jay Levitt. Back-patch to 8.4 where this capability was introduced.
2011-11-03Fix handling of PlaceHolderVars in nestloop parameter management.Tom Lane
If we use a PlaceHolderVar from the outer relation in an inner indexscan, we need to reference the PlaceHolderVar as such as the value to be passed in from the outer relation. The previous code effectively tried to reconstruct the PHV from its component expression, which doesn't work since (a) the Vars therein aren't necessarily bubbled up far enough, and (b) it would be the wrong semantics anyway because of the possibility that the PHV is supposed to have gone to null at some point before the current join. Point (a) led to "variable not found in subplan target list" planner errors, but point (b) would have led to silently wrong answers. Per report from Roger Niederland.
2011-11-01Preserve Var location information during flatten_join_alias_vars.Tom Lane
This allows us to give correct syntax error pointers when complaining about ungrouped variables in a join query with aggregates or GROUP BY. It's pretty much irrelevant for the planner's use of the function, though perhaps it might aid debugging sometimes.
2011-10-26Improve planner's ability to recognize cases where an IN's RHS is unique.Tom Lane
If the right-hand side of a semijoin is unique, then we can treat it like a normal join (or another way to say that is: we don't need to explicitly unique-ify the data before doing it as a normal join). We were recognizing such cases when the RHS was a sub-query with appropriate DISTINCT or GROUP BY decoration, but there's another way: if the RHS is a plain relation with unique indexes, we can check if any of the indexes prove the output is unique. Most of the infrastructure for that was there already in the join removal code, though I had to rearrange it a bit. Per reflection about a recent example in pgsql-performance.
2011-10-23Don't trust deferred-unique indexes for join removal.Tom Lane
The uniqueness condition might fail to hold intra-transaction, and assuming it does can give incorrect query results. Per report from Marti Raudsepp, though this is not his proposed patch. Back-patch to 9.0, where both these features were introduced. In the released branches, add the new IndexOptInfo field to the end of the struct, to try to minimize ABI breakage for third-party code that may be examining that struct.
2011-10-16Teach btree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively.Tom Lane
This allows "indexedcol op ANY(ARRAY[...])" conditions to be used in plain indexscans, and particularly in index-only scans.
2011-10-14Measure the number of all-visible pages for use in index-only scan costing.Tom Lane
Add a column pg_class.relallvisible to remember the number of pages that were all-visible according to the visibility map as of the last VACUUM (or ANALYZE, or some other operations that update pg_class.relpages). Use relallvisible/relpages, instead of an arbitrary constant, to estimate how many heap page fetches can be avoided during an index-only scan. This is pretty primitive and will no doubt see refinements once we've acquired more field experience with the index-only scan mechanism, but it's way better than using a constant. Note: I had to adjust an underspecified query in the window.sql regression test, because it was changing answers when the plan changed to use an index-only scan. Some of the adjacent tests perhaps should be adjusted as well, but I didn't do that here.
2011-10-11Consider index-only scans even when there is no matching qual or ORDER BY.Tom Lane
By popular demand.
2011-10-11Rearrange the implementation of index-only scans.Tom Lane
This commit changes index-only scans so that data is read directly from the index tuple without first generating a faux heap tuple. The only immediate benefit is that indexes on system columns (such as OID) can be used in index-only scans, but this is necessary infrastructure if we are ever to support index-only scans on expression indexes. The executor is now ready for that, though the planner still needs substantial work to recognize the possibility. To do this, Vars in index-only plan nodes have to refer to index columns not heap columns. I introduced a new special varno, INDEX_VAR, to mark such Vars to avoid confusion. (In passing, this commit renames the two existing special varnos to OUTER_VAR and INNER_VAR.) This allows ruleutils.c to handle them with logic similar to what we use for subplan reference Vars. Since index-only scans are now fundamentally different from regular indexscans so far as their expression subtrees are concerned, I also chose to change them to have their own plan node type (and hence, their own executor source file).