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21 hoursGrab the low-hanging fruit from forcing USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL to true.HEADorigin/masterorigin/HEADmasterTom Lane
Remove conditionally-compiled code for the other case. Replace uses of FLOAT8PASSBYVAL with constant "true", mainly because it was quite confusing in cases where the type we were dealing with wasn't float8. I left the associated pg_control and Pg_magic_struct fields in place. Perhaps we should get rid of them, but it would save little, so it doesn't seem worth thinking hard about the compatibility implications. I just labeled them "vestigial" in places where that seemed helpful. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1749799.1752797397@sss.pgh.pa.us
3 daysFix security checks in selectivity estimation functions.Dean Rasheed
Commit e2d4ef8de86 (the fix for CVE-2017-7484) added security checks to the selectivity estimation functions to prevent them from running user-supplied operators on data obtained from pg_statistic if the user lacks privileges to select from the underlying table. In cases involving inheritance/partitioning, those checks were originally performed against the child RTE (which for plain inheritance might actually refer to the parent table). Commit 553d2ec2710 then extended that to also check the parent RTE, allowing access if the user had permissions on either the parent or the child. It turns out, however, that doing any checks using the child RTE is incorrect, since securityQuals is set to NULL when creating an RTE for an inheritance child (whether it refers to the parent table or the child table), and therefore such checks do not correctly account for any RLS policies or security barrier views. Therefore, do the security checks using only the parent RTE. This is consistent with how RLS policies are applied, and the executor's ACL checks, both of which use only the parent table's permissions/policies. Similar checks are performed in the extended stats code, so update that in the same way, centralizing all the checks in a new function. In addition, note that these checks by themselves are insufficient to ensure that the user has access to the table's data because, in a query that goes via a view, they only check that the view owner has permissions on the underlying table, not that the current user has permissions on the view itself. In the selectivity estimation functions, there is no easy way to navigate from underlying tables to views, so add permissions checks for all views mentioned in the query to the planner startup code. If the user lacks permissions on a view, a permissions error will now be reported at planner-startup, and the selectivity estimation functions will not be run. Checking view permissions at planner-startup in this way is a little ugly, since the same checks will be repeated at executor-startup. Longer-term, it might be better to move all the permissions checks from the executor to the planner so that permissions errors can be reported sooner, instead of creating a plan that won't ever be run. However, such a change seems too far-reaching to be back-patched. Back-patch to all supported versions. In v13, there is the added complication that UPDATEs and DELETEs on inherited target tables are planned using inheritance_planner(), which plans each inheritance child table separately, so that the selectivity estimation functions do not know that they are dealing with a child table accessed via its parent. Handle that by checking access permissions on the top parent table at planner-startup, in the same way as we do for views. Any securityQuals on the top parent table are moved down to the child tables by inheritance_planner(), so they continue to be checked by the selectivity estimation functions. Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Backpatch-through: 13 Security: CVE-2025-8713
7 daysDisallow collecting transition tuples from child foreign tables.Etsuro Fujita
Commit 9e6104c66 disallowed transition tables on foreign tables, but failed to account for cases where a foreign table is a child table of a partitioned/inherited table on which transition tables exist, leading to incorrect transition tuples collected from such foreign tables for queries on the parent table triggering transition capture. This occurred not only for inherited UPDATE/DELETE but for partitioned INSERT later supported by commit 3d956d956, which should have handled it at least for the INSERT case, but didn't. To fix, modify ExecAR*Triggers to throw an error if the given relation is a foreign table requesting transition capture. Also, this commit fixes make_modifytable so that in case of an inherited UPDATE/DELETE triggering transition capture, FDWs choose normal operations to modify child foreign tables, not DirectModify; which is needed because they would otherwise skip the calls to ExecAR*Triggers at execution, causing unexpected behavior. Author: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK14QJYikKzBDCe3jMbpGENnQ7popFmbEgm-XTNuk55oyHg%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-07-31Rename CachedPlanType to PlannedStmtOrigin for PlannedStmtMichael Paquier
Commit 719dcf3c42 introduced a field called CachedPlanType in PlannedStmt to allow extensions to determine whether a cached plan is generic or custom. After discussion, the concepts that we want to track are a bit wider than initially anticipated, as it is closer to knowing from which "source" or "origin" a PlannedStmt has been generated or retrieved. Custom and generic cached plans are a subset of that. Based on the state of HEAD, we have been able to define two more origins: - "standard", for the case where PlannedStmt is generated in standard_planner(), the most common case. - "internal", for the fake PlannedStmt generated internally by some query patterns. This could be tuned in the future depending on what is needed. This looks like a good starting point, at least. The default value is called "UNKNOWN", provided as fallback value. This value is not used in the core code, the idea is to let extensions building their own PlannedStmts know about this new field. Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Co-authored-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aILaHupXbIGgF2wJ@paquier.xyz
2025-07-29Display Memoize planner estimates in EXPLAINDavid Rowley
There've been a few complaints that it can be overly difficult to figure out why the planner picked a Memoize plan. To help address that, here we adjust the EXPLAIN output to display the following additional details: 1) The estimated number of cache entries that can be stored at once 2) The estimated number of unique lookup keys that we expect to see 3) The number of lookups we expect 4) The estimated hit ratio Technically #4 can be calculated using #1, #2 and #3, but it's not a particularly obvious calculation, so we opt to display it explicitly. The original patch by Lukas Fittl only displayed the hit ratio, but there was a fear that might lead to more questions about how that was calculated. The idea with displaying all 4 is to be transparent which may allow queries to be tuned more easily. For example, if #2 isn't correct then maybe extended statistics or a manual n_distinct estimate can be used to help fix poor plan choices. Author: Ilia Evdokimov <ilya.evdokimov@tantorlabs.com> Author: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP53Pky29GWAVVk3oBgKBDqhND0BRBN6yTPeguV_qSivFL5N_g%40mail.gmail.com
2025-07-24Introduce field tracking cached plan type in PlannedStmtMichael Paquier
PlannedStmt gains a new field, called CachedPlanType, able to track if a given plan tree originates from the cache and if we are dealing with a generic or custom cached plan. This field can be used for monitoring or statistical purposes, in the executor hooks, for example, based on the planned statement attached to a QueryDesc. A patch is under discussion for pg_stat_statements to provide an equivalent of the counters in pg_prepared_statements for custom and generic plans, to provide a more global view of such data, as this data is now restricted to the current session. The concept introduced in this commit is useful on its own, and has been extracted from a larger patch by the same author. Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0uFw8Y9GCFvafhC=OA8NnMqVZyzXPfv_EePOt+iv1T-qQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-07-22Reduce "Var IS [NOT] NULL" quals during constant foldingRichard Guo
In commit b262ad440, we introduced an optimization that reduces an IS [NOT] NULL qual on a NOT NULL column to constant true or constant false, provided we can prove that the input expression of the NullTest is not nullable by any outer joins or grouping sets. This deduction happens quite late in the planner, during the distribution of quals to rels in query_planner. However, this approach has some drawbacks: we can't perform any further folding with the constant, and it turns out to be prone to bugs. Ideally, this deduction should happen during constant folding. However, the per-relation information about which columns are defined as NOT NULL is not available at that point. This information is currently collected from catalogs when building RelOptInfos for base or "other" relations. This patch moves the collection of NOT NULL attribute information for relations before pull_up_sublinks, storing it in a hash table keyed by relation OID. It then uses this information to perform the NullTest deduction for Vars during constant folding. This also makes it possible to leverage this information to pull up NOT IN subqueries. Note that this patch does not get rid of restriction_is_always_true and restriction_is_always_false. Removing them would prevent us from reducing some IS [NOT] NULL quals that we were previously able to reduce, because (a) the self-join elimination may introduce new IS NOT NULL quals after constant folding, and (b) if some outer joins are converted to inner joins, previously irreducible NullTest quals may become reducible. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-bFJ1At4btk5wqbezdu8PLtQ3zv-aiaY3ry9Ymm=jgFQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-07-22Centralize collection of catalog info needed early in the plannerRichard Guo
There are several pieces of catalog information that need to be retrieved for a relation during the early stage of planning. These include relhassubclass, which is used to clear the inh flag if the relation has no children, as well as a column's attgenerated and default value, which are needed to expand virtual generated columns. More such information may be required in the future. Currently, these pieces of catalog data are collected in multiple places, resulting in repeated table_open/table_close calls for each relation in the rangetable. This patch centralizes the collection of all required early-stage catalog information into a single loop over the rangetable, allowing each relation to be opened and closed only once. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-bFJ1At4btk5wqbezdu8PLtQ3zv-aiaY3ry9Ymm=jgFQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-07-22Expand virtual generated columns before sublink pull-upRichard Guo
Currently, we expand virtual generated columns after we have pulled up any SubLinks within the query's quals. This ensures that the virtual generated column references within SubLinks that should be transformed into joins are correctly expanded. This approach works well and has posed no issues. In an upcoming patch, we plan to centralize the collection of catalog information needed early in the planner. This will help avoid repeated table_open/table_close calls for relations in the rangetable. Since this information is required during sublink pull-up, we are moving the expansion of virtual generated columns to occur beforehand. To achieve this, if any EXISTS SubLinks can be pulled up, their rangetables are processed just before pulling them up. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-bFJ1At4btk5wqbezdu8PLtQ3zv-aiaY3ry9Ymm=jgFQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-07-08Consider explicit incremental sort for Append and MergeAppendRichard Guo
For an ordered Append or MergeAppend, we need to inject an explicit sort into any subpath that is not already well enough ordered. Currently, only explicit full sorts are considered; incremental sorts are not yet taken into account. In this patch, for subpaths of an ordered Append or MergeAppend, we choose to use explicit incremental sort if it is enabled and there are presorted keys. The rationale is based on the assumption that incremental sort is always faster than full sort when there are presorted keys, a premise that has been applied in various parts of the code. In addition, the current cost model tends to favor incremental sort as being cheaper than full sort in the presence of presorted keys, making it reasonable not to consider full sort in such cases. No backpatch as this could result in plan changes. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4_V7a2enTR+T3pOY_YZ-FU8ZsFYym2swOz4jNMqmSgyuw@mail.gmail.com
2025-07-03Simplify COALESCE() with one surviving argument.Tom Lane
If, after removal of useless null-constant arguments, a CoalesceExpr has exactly one remaining argument, we can just take that argument as the result, without bothering to wrap a new CoalesceExpr around it. This isn't likely to produce any great improvement in runtime per se, but it can lead to better plans since the planner no longer has to treat the expression as non-strict. However, there were a few regression test cases that intentionally wrote COALESCE(x) as a shorthand way of creating a non-strict subexpression. To avoid ruining the intent of those tests, write COALESCE(x,x) instead. (If anyone ever proposes de-duplicating COALESCE arguments, we'll need another iteration of this arms race. But it seems pretty unlikely that such an optimization would be worthwhile.) Author: Maksim Milyutin <maksim.milyutin@tantorlabs.ru> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8e8573c3-1411-448d-877e-53258b7b2be0@tantorlabs.ru
2025-07-03Enable use of Memoize for ANTI joinsRichard Guo
Currently, we do not support Memoize for SEMI and ANTI joins because nested loop SEMI/ANTI joins do not scan the inner relation to completion, which prevents Memoize from marking the cache entry as complete. One might argue that we could mark the cache entry as complete after fetching the first inner tuple, but that would not be safe: if the first inner tuple and the current outer tuple do not satisfy the join clauses, a second inner tuple matching the parameters would find the cache entry already marked as complete. However, if the inner side is provably unique, this issue doesn't arise, since there would be no second matching tuple. That said, this doesn't help in the case of SEMI joins, because a SEMI join with a provably unique inner side would already have been reduced to an inner join by reduce_unique_semijoins. Therefore, in this patch, we check whether the inner relation is provably unique for ANTI joins and enable the use of Memoize in such cases. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48FdLiMNrmJL-g6mDvoQVt0yNyJAqMkv4e2Pk-5GKCZLA@mail.gmail.com
2025-06-29Fix some new issues with planning of PlaceHolderVars.Tom Lane
In the wake of commit a16ef313f, we need to deal with more cases involving PlaceHolderVars in NestLoopParams than we did before. For one thing, a16ef313f was incorrect to suppose that we could rely on the required-outer relids of the lefthand path to decide placement of nestloop-parameter PHVs. As Richard Guo argued at the time, we must look at the required-outer relids of the join path itself. For another, we have to apply replace_nestloop_params() to such a PHV's expression, in case it contains references to values that will be supplied from NestLoopParams of higher-level nestloops. For another, we need to be more careful about the phnullingrels of the PHV than we were being. identify_current_nestloop_params only bothered to ensure that the phnullingrels didn't contain "too many" relids, but now it has to be exact, because setrefs.c will apply both NRM_SUBSET and NRM_SUPERSET checks in different places. We can compute the correct relids by determining the set of outer joins that should be able to null the PHV and then subtracting whatever's been applied at or below this join. Do the same for plain Vars, too. (This should make it possible to use NRM_EQUAL to process nestloop params in setrefs.c, but I won't risk making such a change in v18 now.) Lastly, if a nestloop parameter PHV was pulled up out of a subquery and it contains a subquery that was originally pushed down from this query level, then that will still be represented as a SubLink, because SS_process_sublinks won't recurse into outer PHVs, so it didn't get transformed during expression preprocessing in the subquery. We can substitute the version of the PHV's expression appearing in its PlaceHolderInfo to ensure that that preprocessing has happened. (Seems like this processing sequence could stand to be redesigned, but again, late in v18 development is not the time for that.) It's not very clear to me why the old have_dangerous_phv join-order restriction prevented us from seeing the last three of these problems. But given the lack of field complaints, it must have done so. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18953-1c9883a9d4afeb30@postgresql.org
2025-06-20Remove planner's have_dangerous_phv() join-order restriction.Tom Lane
Commit 85e5e222b, which added (a forerunner of) this logic, argued that 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. The flaw in this claim is that there may be other join-order restrictions that prevent us from finding a join order that doesn't involve a "dangerous" PHV. In particular we now recognize that small join_collapse_limit or from_collapse_limit could prevent it. Therefore, let's bite the bullet and make the case work. We don't have to extend the executor's support for nestloop parameters as I thought at the time, because we can instead push the evaluation of the placeholder's expression into the left-hand input of the NestLoop node. So there's not really a lot of downside to this solution, and giving the planner more join-order flexibility should have value beyond just avoiding failure. Having said that, there surely is a nonzero risk of introducing new bugs. Since this failure mode escaped detection for ten years, such cases don't seem common enough to justify a lot of risk. Therefore, let's put this fix into master but leave the back branches alone (for now anyway). Bug: #18953 Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Diagnosed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18953-1c9883a9d4afeb30@postgresql.org
2025-06-19doc: Mention GIN indexes support parallel builds.Fujii Masao
Commit 8492feb98f6 added support for parallel CREATE INDEX on GIN indexes. However, previously two places in the documentation and two in the source code comments still stated that only B-tree and BRIN indexes support parallel builds. This commit updates those references to correctly include GIN indexes. Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7d27d068-90e2-4022-9bd7-09b0fd3d4f47@oss.nttdata.com
2025-05-22In ExecInitModifyTable, don't scribble on the source plan.Tom Lane
The code carelessly modified mtstate->ps.plan->targetlist, which it's not supposed to do. Fortunately, there's not really any need to do that because the planner already set up a perfectly acceptable targetlist for the plan node. We just need to remove the erroneous assignments and update some relevant comments. As it happens, the erroneous assignments caused the targetlist to point to a different part of the source plan tree, so that there isn't really a risk of the pointer becoming dangling after executor termination. The only visible effect of this change we can find is that EXPLAIN will show upper references to the ModifyTable's output expressions using different variables. Formerly it showed Vars from the first target relation that survived executor-startup pruning. Now it always shows such references using the first relation appearing in the planner output, independently of what happens during executor pruning. On the whole that seems like a good thing. Also make a small tweak in ExplainPreScanNode to ensure that the first relation will receive a refname assignment in set_rtable_names, even if it got pruned at startup. Previously the Vars might be shown without any table qualification, which is confusing in a multi-table query. I considered back-patching this, but since the bug doesn't seem to have any really terrible consequences in existing branches, it seems better to not change their EXPLAIN output. It's not too late for v18 though, especially since v18 already made other changes in the EXPLAIN output for these cases. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/213261.1747611093@sss.pgh.pa.us
2025-05-22Revert "Don't lock partitions pruned by initial pruning"Amit Langote
As pointed out by Tom Lane, the patch introduced fragile and invasive design around plan invalidation handling when locking of prunable partitions was deferred from plancache.c to the executor. In particular, it violated assumptions about CachedPlan immutability and altered executor APIs in ways that are difficult to justify given the added complexity and overhead. This also removes the firstResultRels field added to PlannedStmt in commit 28317de72, which was intended to support deferred locking of certain ModifyTable result relations. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/605328.1747710381@sss.pgh.pa.us
2025-05-18Fix tuple_fraction calculation in generate_orderedappend_paths()Alexander Korotkov
6b94e7a6da adjusted generate_orderedappend_paths() to consider fractional paths. However, it didn't manage to interpret the tuple_fraction value correctly. According to the header comment of grouping_planner(), the tuple_fraction >= 1 specifies the absolute number of expected tuples. That number must be divided by the expected total number of tuples to get the actual fraction. Even though this is a bug fix, we don't backpatch it. The risks of the side effects of plan changes on stable branches are too high. Reported-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ca271fa-ca5c-458c-8934-eb148622b270%40gmail.com Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2025-05-14Add explicit initialization for all PlannerGlobal fieldsRichard Guo
When creating a new PlannerGlobal node in standard_planner(), most fields are explicitly initialized, but a few are not. This doesn't cause any functional issues, as makeNode() zeroes all fields by default. However, the inconsistency is undesirable from a clarity and maintenance perspective. This patch explicitly initializes the remaining fields to improve consistency and readability. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-TgQHNOiouqGcuHoBqbJjWyx4UxGKxUY3FrF4trGbcPA@mail.gmail.com
2025-05-08Track the number of presorted outer pathkeys in MergePathRichard Guo
When creating an explicit Sort node for the outer path of a mergejoin, we need to determine the number of presorted keys of the outer path to decide whether explicit incremental sort can be applied. Currently, this is done by repeatedly calling pathkeys_count_contained_in. This patch caches the number of presorted outer pathkeys in MergePath, allowing us to save several calls to pathkeys_count_contained_in. It can be considered a complement to the changes in commit 828e94c9d. Reported-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqvBireB_w6x8BN5txdvBEHxVgZBt=rUnpf5ww5P_E_ww@mail.gmail.com
2025-05-07Refactor ChangeVarNodesExtended() using the custom callbackAlexander Korotkov
fc069a3a6319 implemented Self-Join Elimination (SJE) and put related logic to ChangeVarNodes_walker(). This commit provides refactoring to remove the SJE-related logic from ChangeVarNodes_walker() but adds a custom callback to ChangeVarNodesExtended(), which has a chance to process a node before ChangeVarNodes_walker(). Passing this callback to ChangeVarNodesExtended() allows SJE-related node handling to be kept within the analyzejoins.c. Reported-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49PE3CvnV8vrQ0Dr%3DHqgZZmX0tdNbzVNJxqc8yg-8kDQQ%40mail.gmail.com Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
2025-05-03Revert "Refactor ChangeVarNodesExtended() using the custom callback"Alexander Korotkov
This reverts commit 250a718aadad68793e82103282247556a46a3cfc. It shouldn't be pushed during the release freeze. Reported-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1uBIbY-000owH-0O%40gemulon.postgresql.org
2025-05-03Refactor ChangeVarNodesExtended() using the custom callbackAlexander Korotkov
fc069a3a6319 implemented Self-Join Elimination (SJE) and put related logic to ChangeVarNodes_walker(). This commit provides refactoring to remove the SJE-related logic from ChangeVarNodes_walker() but adds a custom callback to ChangeVarNodesExtended(), which has a chance to process a node before ChangeVarNodes_walker(). Passing this callback to ChangeVarNodesExtended() allows SJE-related node handling to be kept within the analyzejoins.c. Reported-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49PE3CvnV8vrQ0Dr%3DHqgZZmX0tdNbzVNJxqc8yg-8kDQQ%40mail.gmail.com Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
2025-04-28Disallow removing placeholders during Self-Join Elimination.Alexander Korotkov
fc069a3a6319 implements Self-Join Elimination (SJE), which can remove base relations when appropriate. However, regressions tests for SJE only cover the case when placeholder variables (PHVs) are evaluated and needed only in a single base rel. If this baserel is removed due to SJE, its clauses, including PHVs, will be transferred to the keeping relation. Removing these PHVs may trigger an error on plan creation -- thanks to the b3ff6c742f6c for detecting that. This commit skips removal of PHVs during SJE. This might also happen that we skip the removal of some PHVs that could be removed. However, the overhead of extra PHVs is small compared to the complexity of analysis needed to remove them. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Author: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
2025-04-20Fix issue with ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates and FILTERDavid Rowley
1349d2790 added support so that aggregate functions with an ORDER BY or DISTINCT clause could make use of presorted inputs to avoid an implicit sort within nodeAgg.c. That commit failed to consider that a FILTER clause may exist that filters rows before the aggregate function arguments are evaluated. That can be problematic if an aggregate argument contains an expression which could error out during evaluation. It's perfectly valid to want to have a FILTER clause which eliminates such values, and with the pre-sorted path added in 1349d2790, it was possible that the planner would produce a plan with a Sort node above the Aggregate to perform the sort on the aggregate's arguments long before the Aggregate node would filter out the non-matching values. Here we fix this by inspecting ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregate functions which have a FILTER clause to see if the aggregate's arguments are anything more complex than a Var or a Const. Evaluating these isn't going to cause an error. If we find any non-Var, non-Const parameters then the planner will now opt to perform the sort in the Aggregate node for these aggregates, i.e. disable the presorted aggregate optimization. An alternative fix would have been to completely disallow the presorted optimization for Aggrefs with any FILTER clause, but that wasn't done as that could cause large performance regressions for queries that see significant gains from 1349d2790 due to presorted results coming in from an Index Scan. Backpatch to 16, where 1349d2790 was introduced Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Reported-by: Kaimeh <kkaimeh@gmail.com> Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAK-%2BJz9J%3DQ06-M7cDJoPNeYbz5EZDqkjQbJnmRyQyzkbRGsYkA%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 16
2025-04-16Fix an incorrect check in get_memoize_pathRichard Guo
Memoize typically marks cache entries as complete after fully scanning the inner side of a join. However, in the case of unique joins, we skip to the next outer tuple as soon as the first matching inner tuple is found, leaving no opportunity to scan the inner side to completion. To work around that, we mark cache entries as complete after fetching the first matching inner tuple in unique joins. This approach is only safe when all of the join's restriction clauses are parameterized; otherwise, there is no guarantee that reading just one tuple from the inner side is sufficient. Currently, we check for this by verifying that the number of clauses in ppi_clauses is no less than the number of the join's restriction clauses. However, this check isn't entirely reliable, as ppi_clauses includes join clauses available from all outer rels, not just the current outer rel. This means the check could pass even if a restriction clause isn't parameterized, as long as another join clause, which doesn't belong to the current join, is included in ppi_clauses. To fix this, we explicitly check whether each restriction clause of the current join is present in ppi_clauses. While we're here, remove the XXX comment from the modified code, as it's not justified; in certain cases, it's not possible to move a join clause to the inner side. This is arguably a bugfix, but no backpatch given the lack of field reports. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-8JPouj=wBDj4DhK-WO4+Xdx=A2jbjvvyyTBQneJ1=BQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-15Fix failure for generated column with a not-null domain constraint.Tom Lane
If a GENERATED column is declared to have a domain data type where the domain's constraints disallow null values, INSERT commands failed because we built a targetlist that included coercing a null constant to the domain's type. The failure occurred even when the generated value would have been perfectly OK. This is adjacent to the issues fixed in 0da39aa76, but we didn't notice for lack of testing a domain with such a constraint. We aren't going to use the result of the targetlist entry for the generated column --- ExecComputeStoredGenerated will overwrite it. So it's not really necessary that it have the exact datatype of the generated column. This patch fixes the problem by changing the targetlist entry to be a null Const of the domain's base type, which should be sufficiently legal. (We do have to tweak ExecCheckPlanOutput to accept the situation, though.) This has been broken since we implemented generated columns. However, this patch only applies easily as far back as v14, partly because I (tgl) only carried 0da39aa76 back that far, but mostly because v14 significantly refactored the handling of INSERT/UPDATE targetlists. Given the lack of field complaints and the short remaining support lifetime of v13, I judge the cost-benefit ratio not good for devising a version that would work in v13. Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Author: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxG59tip2+9h=rEv-ykOFjt0cbsPVchhi0RTij8bABBA0Q@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 14
2025-04-10Update wording in optimizer/README for EquivalenceClassesDavid Rowley
d69d45a5a changed how em_is_child members are stored in EquivalenceClasses. Children are no longer stored in the ec_members list. optimizer/README mentioned that most operations "should ignore child members", but that felt a little untrue now since child members are now stored in a separate place, they simply won't be found by the normal means of looking (a foreach loop over ec_members), and if you don't find them, there's technically no need to "ignore" them. Here we tweak the wording slightly to reflect the new storage location for child members. Reported-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE8v=EuAP_3F_A2xn8zWx+nG_etW_Fe_DvKO-Fkx=+DdQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-08Doc: note that two examples in optimizer/README are oversimplified.Tom Lane
These examples fail to account for join clauses generated by EquivalenceClasses, but since we haven't mentioned EquivalenceClasses yet it seems like it'd just add confusion to make them fully accurate. Instead, parenthetically note that they're oversimplified. Reported-by: Zeyuan Hu <ferrishu3886@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACvHWmYFo+60yMqKJajDDvKN5EM41YHrCT3oxukwXmGAqpWvyw@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-08Speedup child EquivalenceMember lookup in plannerDavid Rowley
When planning queries to partitioned tables, we clone all EquivalenceMembers belonging to the partitioned table into em_is_child EquivalenceMembers for each non-pruned partition. For partitioned tables with large numbers of partitions, this meant the ec_members list could become large and code searching that list would become slow. Effectively, the more partitions which were present, the more searches needed to be performed for operations such as find_ec_member_matching_expr() during create_plan() and the more partitions present, the longer these searches would take, i.e., a quadratic slowdown. To fix this, here we adjust how we store EquivalenceMembers for em_is_child members. Instead of storing these directly in ec_members, these are now stored in a new array of Lists in the EquivalenceClass, which is indexed by the relid. When we want to find EquivalenceMembers belonging to a certain child relation, we can narrow the search to the array element for that relation. To make EquivalenceMember lookup easier and to reduce the amount of code change, this commit provides a pair of functions to allow iteration over the EquivalenceMembers of an EC which also handles finding the child members, if required. Callers that never need to look at child members can remain using the foreach loop over ec_members, which will now often be faster due to only parent-level members being stored there. The actual performance increases here are highly dependent on the number of partitions and the query being planned. Performance increases can be visible with as few as 8 partitions, but the speedup is marginal for such low numbers of partitions. The speedups become much more visible with a few dozen to hundreds of partitions. With some tested queries using 56 partitions, the planner was around 3x faster than before. For use cases with thousands of partitions, these are likely to become significantly faster. Some testing has shown planner speedups of 60x or more with 8192 partitions. Author: Yuya Watari <watari.yuya@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Tested-by: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> Tested-by: newtglobal postgresql_contributors <postgresql_contributors@newtglobalcorp.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ2pMkZNCgoUKSE%2B_5LthD%2BKbXKvq6h2hQN8Esxpxd%2Bcxmgomg%40mail.gmail.com
2025-04-07Fix PG 17 [NOT] NULL optimization bug for domainsBruce Momjian
A PG 17 optimization allowed columns with NOT NULL constraints to skip table scans for IS NULL queries, and to skip IS NOT NULL checks for IS NOT NULL queries. This didn't work for domain types, since domain types don't follow the IS NULL/IS NOT NULL constraint logic. To fix, disable this optimization for domains for PG 17+. Reported-by: Jan Behrens Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z37p0paENWWUarj-@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 17
2025-04-07Allow NOT NULL constraints to be added as NOT VALIDÁlvaro Herrera
This allows them to be added without scanning the table, and validating them afterwards without holding access exclusive lock on the table after any violating rows have been deleted or fixed. Doing ALTER TABLE ... SET NOT NULL for a column that has an invalid not-null constraint validates that constraint. ALTER TABLE .. VALIDATE CONSTRAINT is also supported. There are various checks on whether an invalid constraint is allowed in a child table when the parent table has a valid constraint; this should match what we do for enforced/not enforced constraints. pg_attribute.attnotnull is now only an indicator for whether a not-null constraint exists for the column; whether it's valid or invalid must be queried in pg_constraint. Applications can continue to query pg_attribute.attnotnull as before, but now it's possible that NULL rows are present in the column even when that's set to true. For backend internal purposes, we cache the nullability status in CompactAttribute->attnullability that each tuple descriptor carries (replacing CompactAttribute.attnotnull, which was a mirror of Form_pg_attribute.attnotnull). During the initial tuple descriptor creation, based on the pg_attribute scan, we set this to UNRESTRICTED if pg_attribute.attnotnull is false, or to UNKNOWN if it's true; then we update the latter to VALID or INVALID depending on the pg_constraint scan. This flag is also copied when tupledescs are copied. Comparing tuple descs for equality must also compare the CompactAttribute.attnullability flag and return false in case of a mismatch. pg_dump deals with these constraints by storing the OIDs of invalid not-null constraints in a separate array, and running a query to obtain their properties. The regular table creation SQL omits them entirely. They are then dealt with in the same way as "separate" CHECK constraints, and dumped after the data has been loaded. Because no additional pg_dump infrastructure was required, we don't bump its version number. I decided not to bump catversion either, because the old catalog state works perfectly in the new world. (Trying to run with new catalog state and the old server version would likely run into issues, however.) System catalogs do not support invalid not-null constraints (because commit 14e87ffa5c54 didn't allow them to have pg_constraint rows anyway.) Author: Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lathia@gmail.com> Author: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Tested-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf0KitkNack4F5CFkFi-9Dqvp29Ro=EpcWt=4_hs-Rt+bQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-06Relax ordering-related hardcoded btree requirements in planningPeter Eisentraut
There were several places in ordering-related planning where a requirement for btree was hardcoded but an amcanorder index could suffice. This fixes that. We just need to do the necessary mapping between strategy numbers and compare types and adjust some related APIs so that this works independent of btree strategy numbers. For instance, non-btree amcanorder indexes can now be used to support sorting and merge joins. Also, predtest.c works independent of btree strategy numbers now. To avoid performance regressions, some details on btree and other built-in index types are still hardcoded as shortcuts, but other index types now have access to the same features by providing the required flags and callbacks. Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
2025-04-04Convert 'x IN (VALUES ...)' to 'x = ANY ...' then appropriateAlexander Korotkov
This commit implements the automatic conversion of 'x IN (VALUES ...)' into ScalarArrayOpExpr. That simplifies the query tree, eliminating the appearance of an unnecessary join. Since VALUES describes a relational table, and the value of such a list is a table row, the optimizer will likely face an underestimation problem due to the inability to estimate cardinality through MCV statistics. The cardinality evaluation mechanism can work with the array inclusion check operation. If the array is small enough (< 100 elements), it will perform a statistical evaluation element by element. We perform the transformation in the convert_ANY_sublink_to_join() if VALUES RTE is proper and the transformation is convertible. The conversion is only possible for operations on scalar values, not rows. Also, we currently support the transformation only when it ends up with a constant array. Otherwise, the evaluation of non-hashed SAOP might be slower than the corresponding Hash Join with VALUES. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0184212d-1248-4f1f-a42d-f5cb1c1976d2%40tantorlabs.com Author: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ivan Kush <ivan.kush@tantorlabs.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
2025-04-04Extract make_SAOP_expr() function from match_orclause_to_indexcol()Alexander Korotkov
This commit extracts the code to generate ScalarArrayOpExpr on top of the list of expressions from match_orclause_to_indexcol() into a separate function make_SAOP_expr(). This function was extracted to be used in optimization for conversion of 'x IN (VALUES ...)' to 'x = ANY ...'. make_SAOP_expr() is placed in clauses.c file as only two additional headers were needed there compared with other places. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0184212d-1248-4f1f-a42d-f5cb1c1976d2%40tantorlabs.com Author: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ivan Kush <ivan.kush@tantorlabs.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
2025-04-04Convert PathKey to use CompareTypePeter Eisentraut
Change the PathKey struct to use CompareType to record the sort direction instead of hardcoding btree strategy numbers. The CompareType is then converted to the index-type-specific strategy when the plan is created. This reduces the number of places btree strategy numbers are hardcoded, and it's a self-contained subset of a larger effort to allow non-btree indexes to behave like btrees. Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
2025-04-04Make derived clause lookup in EquivalenceClass more efficientAmit Langote
Derived clauses are stored in ec_derives, a List of RestrictInfos. These clauses are later looked up by matching the left and right EquivalenceMembers along with the clause's parent EC. This linear search becomes expensive in queries with many joins or partitions, where ec_derives may contain thousands of entries. In particular, create_join_clause() can spend significant time scanning this list. To improve performance, introduce a hash table (ec_derives_hash) that is built when the list reaches 32 entries -- the same threshold used for join_rel_hash. The original list is retained alongside the hash table to support EC merging and serialization (_outEquivalenceClass()). Each clause is stored in the hash table using a canonicalized key: the EquivalenceMember with the lower memory address is placed in the key before the one with the higher memory address. This avoids storing or searching for both permutations of the same clause. For clauses involving a constant EM, the key places NULL in the first slot and the non-constant EM in the second. The hash table is initialized using list_length(ec_derives_list) as the size hint. simplehash internally adjusts this to the next power of two after dividing by the fillfactor, so this typically results in at least 64 buckets near the threshold -- avoiding immediate resizing while adapting to the actual number of entries. The lookup logic for derived clauses is now centralized in ec_search_derived_clause_for_ems(), which consults the hash table when available and falls back to the list otherwise. The new ec_clear_derived_clauses() always frees ec_derives_list, even though some of the original code paths that cleared the old ec_derives field did not. This ensures consistent cleanup and avoids leaking memory when large lists are discarded. An assertion originally placed in find_derived_clause_for_ec_member() is moved into ec_search_derived_clause_for_ems() so that it is enforced consistently, regardless of whether the hash table or list is used for lookup. This design incorporates suggestions by David Rowley, who proposed both the key canonicalization and the initial sizing approach to balance memory usage and CPU efficiency. Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Tested-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Tested-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Tested-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5vZiQtWU6moszLP5iZ8gLX_ZAUbgEX0DxGLx9PGWCtqUg@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-04Add assertion to verify derived clause has constant RHSAmit Langote
find_derived_clause_for_ec_member() searches for a previously-derived clause that equates a non-constant EquivalenceMember to a constant. It is only called for EquivalenceClasses with ec_has_const set, and with a non-constant member the EquivalenceMember to search for. The matched clause is expected to have the non-constant member on the left-hand side and the constant EquivalenceMember on the right. Assert that the RHS is indeed a constant, to catch violations of this structure and enforce assumptions made by generate_base_implied_equalities_const(). Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5scMxyFRqOFE6ODmBiW2rnVBEmeEcA-p4W_CyuEikURdA@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-03Remove duplicated comment in get_relation_constraintsRichard Guo
The check for non-inheritable constraints is performed later, and the same comment is included at that point. While we're here, remove one extraneous blank line. Author: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxETi6x86S8EkH8mRfOcm2AenoE9t1pyCFVMpU34gVhF3w@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-02Change SQL-language functions to use the plan cache.Tom Lane
In the historical implementation of SQL functions (if they don't get inlined), we built plans for all the contained queries at first call within an outer query, and then re-used those plans for the duration of the outer query, and then forgot everything. This was not ideal, not least because the plans could not be customized to specific values of the function's parameters. Our plancache infrastructure seems mature enough to be used here. That will solve both the problem with not being able to build custom plans and the problem with not being able to share work across successive outer queries. Aside from those performance concerns, this change fixes a longstanding bugaboo with SQL functions: you could not write DDL that would affect later statements in the same function. That's mostly still true with new-style SQL functions, since the results of parse analysis are baked into the stored query trees (and protected by dependency records). But for old-style SQL functions, it will now work much as it does with PL/pgSQL functions, because we delay parse analysis and planning of each query until we're ready to run it. Some edge cases that require replanning are now handled better too; see for example the new rowsecurity test, where we now detect an RLS context change that was previously missed. One other edge-case change that might be worthy of a release note is that we now insist that a SQL function's result be generated by the physically-last query within it. Previously, if the last original query was deleted by a DO INSTEAD NOTHING rule, we'd be willing to take the result from the preceding query instead. This behavior was undocumented except in source-code comments, and it seems hard to believe that anyone's relying on it. Along the way to this feature, we needed a few infrastructure changes: * The plancache can now take either a raw parse tree or an analyzed-but-not-rewritten Query as the starting point for a CachedPlanSource. If given a Query, it is caller's responsibility that nothing will happen to invalidate that form of the query. We use this for new-style SQL functions, where what's in pg_proc is serialized Query(s) and we trust the dependency mechanism to disallow DDL that would break those. * The plancache now offers a way to invoke a post-rewrite callback to examine/modify the rewritten parse tree when it is rebuilding the parse trees after a cache invalidation. We need this because SQL functions sometimes adjust the parse tree to make its output exactly match the declared result type; if the plan gets rebuilt, that has to be re-done. * There is a new backend module utils/cache/funccache.c that abstracts the idea of caching data about a specific function usage (a particular function and set of input data types). The code in it is moved almost verbatim from PL/pgSQL, which has done that for a long time. We use that logic now for SQL-language functions too, and maybe other PLs will have use for it in the future. Author: Alexander Pyhalov <a.pyhalov@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8216639.NyiUUSuA9g@aivenlaptop
2025-04-02Add support for NOT ENFORCED in foreign key constraintsPeter Eisentraut
This expands the NOT ENFORCED constraint flag, previously only supported for CHECK constraints (commit ca87c415e2f), to foreign key constraints. Normally, when a foreign key constraint is created on a table, action and check triggers are added to maintain data integrity. With this patch, if a constraint is marked as NOT ENFORCED, integrity checks are no longer required, making these triggers unnecessary. Consequently, when creating a NOT ENFORCED foreign key constraint, triggers will not be created, and the constraint will be marked as NOT VALID. Similarly, if an existing foreign key constraint is changed to NOT ENFORCED, the associated triggers will be dropped, and the constraint will also be marked as NOT VALID. Conversely, if a NOT ENFORCED foreign key constraint is changed to ENFORCED, the necessary triggers will be created, and the will be changed to VALID by performing necessary validation. Since not-enforced foreign key constraints have no triggers, the shortcut used for example in psql and pg_dump to skip looking for foreign keys if the relation is known not to have triggers no longer applies. (It already didn't work for partitioned tables.) Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandra Wang <alexandra.wang.oss@gmail.com> Tested-by: Triveni N <triveni.n@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAJ_b962c5AcYW9KUt_R_ER5qs3fUGbe4az-SP-vuwPS-w-AGA@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-02Fix planner's failure to identify multiple hashable ScalarArrayOpExprsDavid Rowley
50e17ad28 (v14) and 29f45e299 (v15) made it so the planner could identify IN and NOT IN clauses which have Const lists as right-hand arguments and when an appropriate hash function is available for the data types, mark the ScalarArrayOpExpr as hashable so the executor could execute it more optimally by building and probing a hash table during expression evaluation. These commits both worked correctly when there was only a single ScalarArrayOpExpr in the given expression being processed by the planner, but when there were multiple, only the first was checked and any subsequent ones were not identified, which resulted in less optimal expression evaluation during query execution for all but the first found ScalarArrayOpExpr. Backpatch to 14, where 50e17ad28 was introduced. Author: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29a76f51-97b0-4c07-87b7-ec8e3b5345c9@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 14
2025-03-28Make group_similar_or_args() reorder clause list as little as possibleAlexander Korotkov
Currently, group_similar_or_args() permutes original positions of clauses independently on whether it manages to find any groups of similar clauses. While we are not providing any strict warranties on saving the original order of OR-clauses, it is preferred that the original order be modified as little as possible. This commit changes the reordering algorithm of group_similar_or_args() in the following way. We reorder each group of similar clauses so that the first item of the group stays in place, but all the other items are moved after it. So, if there are no similar clauses, the order of clauses stays the same. When there are some groups, only required reordering happens while the rest of the clauses remain in their places. Reported-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ac7c436-81e1-4191-9caf-b0dd70b51511%40gmail.com Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
2025-03-24Allow plugins to set a 64-bit plan identifier in PlannedStmtMichael Paquier
This field can be optionally set in a PlannedStmt through the planner hook, giving extensions the possibility to assign an identifier related to a computed plan. The backend is changed to report it in the backend entry of a process running (including the extended query protocol), with semantics and APIs to set or get it similar to what is used for the existing query ID (introduced in the backend via 4f0b0966c8). The plan ID is reset at the same timing as the query ID. Currently, this information is not added to the system view pg_stat_activity; extensions can access it through PgBackendStatus. Some patches have been proposed to provide some features in the planning area, where a plan identifier is used as a key to know the plan involved (for statistics, plan storage and manipulations, etc.), and the point of this commit is to provide an anchor in the backend that extensions can rely on for future work. The reset of the plan identifier is controlled by core and follows the same pattern as the query identifier added in 4f0b0966c8. The contents of this commit are extracted from a larger set proposed originally by Lukas Fittl, that Sami Imseih has proposed as an independent change, with a few tweaks sprinkled by me. Author: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com> Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP53Pkyow59ajFMHGpmb1BK9WHDypaWtUsS_5DoYUEfsa_Hktg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0vyWd4r35uUBUmhngv8XqeiJUkJDDKkLf5LCoWxv-t_pw@mail.gmail.com
2025-03-20Revert workarounds for -Wmissing-braces false positives on old GCCPeter Eisentraut
We have collected several instances of a workaround for GCC bug 53119, which caused false-positive compiler warnings. This bug has long been fixed, but was still seen on the buildfarm, most recently on lapwing with gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5). (The GCC bug tracker mentions that a fix was backported to 4.7.4 and 4.8.3.) That compiler no longer runs warning-free since commit 6fdd5d95634, so we don't need to keep these workarounds. And furthermore, the consensus appears to be that we don't want to keep supporting that era of platform anymore at all. This reverts the following commits: d937904cce6a3d82e4f9c2127de7b59105a134b3 506428d091760650971433f6bc083531c307b368 b449afb582bb9015bfbb85abc10ce122aef9ec70 6392f2a0968c20ecde4d27b6652703ad931fce92 bad0763a4d7be3005eae35d460c73ac4bc7ebaad 5e0c761d0a13c7b4f7c5de618ac38560d74d74d0 and makes a few similar fixes to newer code. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e170d61f-01ab-4cf9-ab68-91cd1fac62c5%40eisentraut.org Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BTgmoYEAm-KKZibAP3hSqbTFTjUd47XtVcf3xSFDpyecXX9uQ%40mail.gmail.com
2025-03-19Ensure first ModifyTable rel initialized if all are prunedAmit Langote
Commit cbc127917e introduced tracking of unpruned relids to avoid processing pruned relations, and changed ExecInitModifyTable() to initialize only unpruned result relations. As a result, MERGE statements that prune all target partitions can now lead to crashes or incorrect behavior during execution. The crash occurs because some executor code paths rely on ModifyTableState.resultRelInfo[0] being present and initialized, even when no result relations remain after pruning. For example, ExecMerge() and ExecMergeNotMatched() use the first resultRelInfo to determine the appropriate action. Similarly, ExecInitPartitionInfo() assumes that at least one result relation exists. To preserve these assumptions, ExecInitModifyTable() now includes the first result relation in the initialized result relation list if all result relations for that ModifyTable were pruned. To enable that, ExecDoInitialPruning() ensures the first relation is locked if it was pruned and locking is necessary. To support this exception to the pruning logic, PlannedStmt now includes a list of RT indexes identifying the first result relation of each ModifyTable node in the plan. This allows ExecDoInitialPruning() to check whether each such relation was pruned and, if so, lock it if necessary. Bug: #18830 Reported-by: Robins Tharakan <tharakan@gmail.com> Diagnozed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Diagnozed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18830-1f31ea1dc930d444%40postgresql.org
2025-03-15Remove table AM callback scan_bitmap_next_blockMelanie Plageman
After pushing the bitmap iterator into table-AM specific code (as part of making bitmap heap scan use the read stream API in 2b73a8cd33b7), scan_bitmap_next_block() no longer returns the current block number. Since scan_bitmap_next_block() isn't returning any relevant information to bitmap table scan code, it makes more sense to get rid of it. Now, bitmap table scan code only calls table_scan_bitmap_next_tuple(), and the heap AM implementation of scan_bitmap_next_block() is a local helper in heapam_handler.c. Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ZwCwWFeL_H3ia26bP2e7HiKLWt0ZmGXPVwPO6uXq0vaA%40mail.gmail.com
2025-03-13Fix incorrect handling of subquery pullupRichard Guo
When pulling up a subquery, if the subquery's target list items are used in grouping set columns, we need to wrap them in PlaceHolderVars. This ensures that expressions retain their separate identity so that they will match grouping set columns when appropriate. In 90947674f, we decided to wrap subquery outputs that are non-var expressions in PlaceHolderVars. This prevents const-simplification from merging them into the surrounding expressions after subquery pullup, which could otherwise lead to failing to match those subexpressions to grouping set columns, with the effect that they'd not go to null when expected. However, that left some loose ends. If the subquery's target list contains two or more identical Var expressions, we can still fail to match the Var expression to the expected grouping set expression. This is not related to const-simplification, but rather to how we match expressions to lower target items in setrefs.c. For sort/group expressions, we use ressortgroupref matching, which works well. For other expressions, we primarily rely on comparing the expressions to determine if they are the same. Therefore, we need a way to prevent setrefs.c from matching the expression to some other identical ones. To fix, wrap all subquery outputs in PlaceHolderVars if the parent query uses grouping sets, ensuring that they preserve their separate identity throughout the whole planning process. Reported-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-meSahaanKskpBn0KKxdHAXC1_EJCVWHxEodqirrGJnw@mail.gmail.com
2025-03-13Remove code setting wrap_non_vars to true for UNION ALL subqueriesRichard Guo
In pull_up_simple_subquery and pull_up_constant_function, there is code that sets wrap_non_vars to true when dealing with an appendrel member. The goal is to wrap subquery outputs that are not simple Vars in PlaceHolderVars, ensuring that what we pull up doesn't get merged into a surrounding expression during later processing, which could cause it to fail to match the expression actually available from the appendrel. However, this is unnecessary. When pulling up an appendrel child subquery, the only part of the upper query that could reference the appendrel child yet is the translated_vars list of the associated AppendRelInfo that we just made for this child. Furthermore, we do not want to force use of PHVs in the AppendRelInfo, as there is no outer join between. In fact, perform_pullup_replace_vars always sets wrap_non_vars to false before performing pullup_replace_vars on the AppendRelInfo. This patch simply removes the code that sets wrap_non_vars to true for UNION ALL subqueries. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-VXDEi1v+hZYLxpOv0riJxHsCkCH1f46tLnhonEAyGCQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-03-12Build whole-row Vars the same way during parsing and planning.Tom Lane
makeWholeRowVar() has different rules for constructing a whole-row Var depending on the kind of RTE it's representing. This turns out to be problematic because the rewriter and planner can convert view RTEs and set-returning-function RTEs into subquery RTEs; so a whole-row Var made during planning might look different from one made by the parser. In isolation this doesn't cause any problem, but if a query contains Vars made both ways for the same varno, there are cross-checks in the executor that will complain. This manifests for UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE queries that use whole-row table references. To fix, we need makeWholeRowVar() to produce the same result from an inlined RTE as it would have for the original. For an inlined view, we can use RangeTblEntry.relid to detect that this had been a view RTE. For inlined SRFs, make a data structure definition change akin to commit 47bb9db75, and say that we won't clear RangeTblEntry.functions until the end of planning. That allows makeWholeRowVar() to repeat what it would have done with the unmodified RTE. Reported-by: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@deepbluecap.com> Reported-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Diagnosed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3518c50a-ab18-482f-b916-a37263622501@deepbluecap.com Backpatch-through: 13