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2021-02-08Fix permission checks on constraint violation errors on partitions.Heikki Linnakangas
If a cross-partition UPDATE violates a constraint on the target partition, and the columns in the new partition are in different physical order than in the parent, the error message can reveal columns that the user does not have SELECT permission on. A similar bug was fixed earlier in commit 804b6b6db4. The cause of the bug is that the callers of the ExecBuildSlotValueDescription() function got confused when constructing the list of modified columns. If the tuple was routed from a parent, we converted the tuple to the parent's format, but the list of modified columns was grabbed directly from the child's RTE entry. ExecUpdateLockMode() had a similar issue. That lead to confusion on which columns are key columns, leading to wrong tuple lock being taken on tables referenced by foreign keys, when a row is updated with INSERT ON CONFLICT UPDATE. A new isolation test is added for that corner case. With this patch, the ri_RangeTableIndex field is no longer set for partitions that don't have an entry in the range table. Previously, it was set to the RTE entry of the parent relation, but that was confusing. NOTE: This modifies the ResultRelInfo struct, replacing the ri_PartitionRoot field with ri_RootResultRelInfo. That's a bit risky to backpatch, because it breaks any extensions accessing the field. The change that ri_RangeTableIndex is not set for partitions could potentially break extensions, too. The ResultRelInfos are visible to FDWs at least, and this patch required small changes to postgres_fdw. Nevertheless, this seem like the least bad option. I don't think these fields widely used in extensions; I don't think there are FDWs out there that uses the FDW "direct update" API, other than postgres_fdw. If there is, you will get a compilation error, so hopefully it is caught quickly. Backpatch to 11, where support for both cross-partition UPDATEs, and unique indexes on partitioned tables, were added. Reviewed-by: Amit Langote Security: CVE-2021-3393
2021-01-26Rethink recently-added SPI interfaces.Tom Lane
SPI_execute_with_receiver and SPI_cursor_parse_open_with_paramlist are new in v14 (cf. commit 2f48ede08). Before they can get out the door, let's change their APIs to follow the practice recently established by SPI_prepare_extended etc: shove all optional arguments into a struct that callers are supposed to pre-zero. The hope is to allow future addition of more options without either API breakage or a continuing proliferation of new SPI entry points. With that in mind, choose slightly more generic names for them: SPI_execute_extended and SPI_cursor_parse_open respectively. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRCLPdDAETvR7Po7gC5y_ibkn_-bOzbeJb39WHms01194Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-25Improve performance of repeated CALLs within plpgsql procedures.Tom Lane
This patch essentially is cleaning up technical debt left behind by the original implementation of plpgsql procedures, particularly commit d92bc83c4. That patch (or more precisely, follow-on patches fixing its worst bugs) forced us to re-plan CALL and DO statements each time through, if we're in a non-atomic context. That wasn't for any fundamental reason, but just because use of a saved plan requires having a ResourceOwner to hold a reference count for the plan, and we had no suitable resowner at hand, nor would the available APIs support using one if we did. While it's not that expensive to create a "plan" for CALL/DO, the cycles do add up in repeated executions. This patch therefore makes the following API changes: * GetCachedPlan/ReleaseCachedPlan are modified to let the caller specify which resowner to use to pin the plan, rather than forcing use of CurrentResourceOwner. * spi.c gains a "SPI_execute_plan_extended" entry point that lets callers say which resowner to use to pin the plan. This borrows the idea of an options struct from the recently added SPI_prepare_extended, hopefully allowing future options to be added without more API breaks. This supersedes SPI_execute_plan_with_paramlist (which I've marked deprecated) as well as SPI_execute_plan_with_receiver (which is new in v14, so I just took it out altogether). * I also took the opportunity to remove the crude hack of letting plpgsql reach into SPI private data structures to mark SPI plans as "no_snapshot". It's better to treat that as an option of SPI_prepare_extended. Now, when running a non-atomic procedure or DO block that contains any CALL or DO commands, plpgsql creates a ResourceOwner that will be used to pin the plans of the CALL/DO commands. (In an atomic context, we just use CurrentResourceOwner, as before.) Having done this, we can just save CALL/DO plans normally, whether or not they are used across transaction boundaries. This seems to be good for something like 2X speedup of a CALL of a trivial procedure with a few simple argument expressions. By restricting the creation of an extra ResourceOwner like this, there's essentially zero penalty in cases that can't benefit. Pavel Stehule, with some further hacking by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRCLPdDAETvR7Po7gC5y_ibkn_-bOzbeJb39WHms01194Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-13Pass down "logically unchanged index" hint.Peter Geoghegan
Add an executor aminsert() hint mechanism that informs index AMs that the incoming index tuple (the tuple that accompanies the hint) is not being inserted by execution of an SQL statement that logically modifies any of the index's key columns. The hint is received by indexes when an UPDATE takes place that does not apply an optimization like heapam's HOT (though only for indexes where all key columns are logically unchanged). Any index tuple that receives the hint on insert is expected to be a duplicate of at least one existing older version that is needed for the same logical row. Related versions will typically be stored on the same index page, at least within index AMs that apply the hint. Recognizing the difference between MVCC version churn duplicates and true logical row duplicates at the index AM level can help with cleanup of garbage index tuples. Cleanup can intelligently target tuples that are likely to be garbage, without wasting too many cycles on less promising tuples/pages (index pages with little or no version churn). This is infrastructure for an upcoming commit that will teach nbtree to perform bottom-up index deletion. No index AM actually applies the hint just yet. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reviewed-By: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=CEKFa74EScx_hFVshCOn6AA5T-ajFASTdzipdkLTNQQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-04Add the ability for the core grammar to have more than one parse target.Tom Lane
This patch essentially allows gram.y to implement a family of related syntax trees, rather than necessarily always parsing a list of SQL statements. raw_parser() gains a new argument, enum RawParseMode, to say what to do. As proof of concept, add a mode that just parses a TypeName without any other decoration, and use that to greatly simplify typeStringToTypeName(). In addition, invent a new SPI entry point SPI_prepare_extended() to allow SPI users (particularly plpgsql) to get at this new functionality. In hopes of making this the last variant of SPI_prepare(), set up its additional arguments as a struct rather than direct arguments, and promise that future additions to the struct can default to zero. SPI_prepare_cursor() and SPI_prepare_params() can perhaps go away at some point. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4165684.1607707277@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-12-09Support subscripting of arbitrary types, not only arrays.Tom Lane
This patch generalizes the subscripting infrastructure so that any data type can be subscripted, if it provides a handler function to define what that means. Traditional variable-length (varlena) arrays all use array_subscript_handler(), while the existing fixed-length types that support subscripting use raw_array_subscript_handler(). It's expected that other types that want to use subscripting notation will define their own handlers. (This patch provides no such new features, though; it only lays the foundation for them.) To do this, move the parser's semantic processing of subscripts (including coercion to whatever data type is required) into a method callback supplied by the handler. On the execution side, replace the ExecEvalSubscriptingRef* layer of functions with direct calls to callback-supplied execution routines. (Thus, essentially no new run-time overhead should be caused by this patch. Indeed, there is room to remove some overhead by supplying specialized execution routines. This patch does a little bit in that line, but more could be done.) Additional work is required here and there to remove formerly hard-wired assumptions about the result type, collation, etc of a SubscriptingRef expression node; and to remove assumptions that the subscript values must be integers. One useful side-effect of this is that we now have a less squishy mechanism for identifying whether a data type is a "true" array: instead of wiring in weird rules about typlen, we can look to see if pg_type.typsubscript == F_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_HANDLER. For this to be bulletproof, we have to forbid user-defined types from using that handler directly; but there seems no good reason for them to do so. This patch also removes assumptions that the number of subscripts is limited to MAXDIM (6), or indeed has any hard-wired limit. That limit still applies to types handled by array_subscript_handler or raw_array_subscript_handler, but to discourage other dependencies on this constant, I've moved it from c.h to utils/array.h. Dmitry Dolgov, reviewed at various times by Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov, Peter Eisentraut, Pavel Stehule Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVDuGBv=M0FqBYX8DPebS3F_0KQ6OVFobGJPM507_SZ_w@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVovR+XY4mfk-7oNk-rF91gH0PebnNfuUjuuDsyHjOcVA@mail.gmail.com
2020-11-24Move per-agg and per-trans duplicate finding to the planner.Heikki Linnakangas
This has the advantage that the cost estimates for aggregates can count the number of calls to transition and final functions correctly. Bump catalog version, because views can contain Aggrefs. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b2e3536b-1dbc-8303-c97e-89cb0b4a9a48%40iki.fi
2020-10-26In INSERT/UPDATE, use the table's real tuple descriptor as target.Tom Lane
Previously, ExecInitModifyTable relied on ExecInitJunkFilter, and thence ExecCleanTypeFromTL, to build the target descriptor from the query tlist. While we just checked (in ExecCheckPlanOutput) that the tlist produces compatible output, this is not a great substitute for the relation's actual tuple descriptor that's available from the relcache. For one thing, dropped columns will not be correctly marked attisdropped; it's a bit surprising that we've gotten away with that this long. But the real reason for being concerned with this is that using the table's descriptor means that the slot will have correct attrmissing data, allowing us to revert the klugy fix of commit ba9f18abd. (This commit undoes that one's changes in trigger.c, but keeps the new test case.) Thus we can solve the bogus-trigger-tuple problem with fewer cycles rather than more. No back-patch, since this doesn't fix any additional bug, and it seems somewhat more likely to have unforeseen side effects than ba9f18abd's narrow fix. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16644-5da7ef98a7ac4545@postgresql.org
2020-10-19Fix list-munging bug that broke SQL function result coercions.Tom Lane
Since commit 913bbd88d, check_sql_fn_retval() can either insert type coercion steps in-line in the Query that produces the SQL function's results, or generate a new top-level Query to perform the coercions, if modifying the Query's output in-place wouldn't be safe. However, it appears that the latter case has never actually worked, because the code tried to inject the new Query back into the query list it was passed ... which is not the list that will be used for later processing when we execute the SQL function "normally" (without inlining it). So we ended up with no coercion happening at run-time, leading to wrong results or crashes depending on the datatypes involved. While the regression tests look like they cover this area well enough, through a huge bit of bad luck all the test cases that exercise the separate-Query path were checking either inline-able cases (which accidentally didn't have the bug) or cases that are no-ops at runtime (e.g., varchar to text), so that the failure to perform the coercion wasn't obvious. The fact that the cases that don't work weren't allowed at all before v13 probably contributed to not noticing the problem sooner, too. To fix, get rid of the separate "flat" list of Query nodes and instead pass the real two-level list that is going to be used later. I chose to make the same change in check_sql_fn_statements(), although that has no actual bug, just so that we don't need that data structure at all. This is an API change, as evidenced by the adjustments needed to callers outside functions.c. That's a bit scary to be doing in a released branch, but so far as I can tell from a quick search, there are no outside callers of these functions (and they are sufficiently specific to our semantics for SQL-language functions that it's not apparent why any extension would need to call them). In any case, v13 already changed the API of check_sql_fn_retval() compared to prior branches. Per report from pinker. Back-patch to v13 where this code came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1603050466566-0.post@n3.nabble.com
2020-10-19Remove PartitionRoutingInfo struct.Heikki Linnakangas
The extra indirection neeeded to access its members via its enclosing ResultRelInfo seems pointless. Move all the fields from PartitionRoutingInfo to ResultRelInfo. Author: Amit Langote Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BHiwqFViT47Zbr_ASBejiK7iDG8%3DQ1swQ-tjM6caRPQ67pT%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com
2020-10-19Revise child-to-root tuple conversion map management.Heikki Linnakangas
Store the tuple conversion map to convert a tuple from a child table's format to the root format in a new ri_ChildToRootMap field in ResultRelInfo. It is initialized if transition tuple capture for FOR STATEMENT triggers or INSERT tuple routing on a partitioned table is needed. Previously, ModifyTable kept the maps in the per-subplan ModifyTableState->mt_per_subplan_tupconv_maps array, or when tuple routing was used, in ResultRelInfo->ri_Partitioninfo->pi_PartitionToRootMap. The new field replaces both of those. Now that the child-to-root tuple conversion map is always available in ResultRelInfo (when needed), remove the TransitionCaptureState.tcs_map field. The callers of Exec*Trigger() functions no longer need to set or save it, which is much less confusing and bug-prone. Also, as a future optimization, this will allow us to delay creating the map for a given result relation until the relation is actually processed during execution. Author: Amit Langote Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BHiwqHtCWLdK-LO%3DNEsvOdHx%2B7yv4mE_zYK0i3BH7dXb-wxog%40mail.gmail.com
2020-10-14Remove es_result_relation_info from EState.Heikki Linnakangas
Maintaining 'es_result_relation_info' correctly at all times has become cumbersome, especially with partitioning where each partition gets its own result relation info. Having to set and reset it across arbitrary operations has caused bugs in the past. This changes all the places that used 'es_result_relation_info', to receive the currently active ResultRelInfo via function parameters instead. Author: Amit Langote Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BHiwqGEmiib8FLiHMhKB%2BCH5dRgHSLc5N5wnvc4kym%2BZYpQEQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-10-13Create ResultRelInfos later in InitPlan, index them by RT index.Heikki Linnakangas
Instead of allocating all the ResultRelInfos upfront in one big array, allocate them in ExecInitModifyTable(). es_result_relations is now an array of ResultRelInfo pointers, rather than an array of structs, and it is indexed by the RT index. This simplifies things: we get rid of the separate concept of a "result rel index", and don't need to set it in setrefs.c anymore. This also allows follow-up optimizations (not included in this commit yet) to skip initializing ResultRelInfos for target relations that were not needed at runtime, and removal of the es_result_relation_info pointer. The EState arrays of regular result rels and root result rels are merged into one array. Similarly, the resultRelations and rootResultRelations lists in PlannedStmt are merged into one. It's not actually clear to me why they were kept separate in the first place, but now that the es_result_relations array is indexed by RT index, it certainly seems pointless. The PlannedStmt->resultRelations list is now only needed for ExecRelationIsTargetRelation(). One visible effect of this change is that ExecRelationIsTargetRelation() will now return 'true' also for the partition root, if a partitioned table is updated. That seems like a good thing, although the function isn't used in core code, and I don't see any reason for an FDW to call it on a partition root. Author: Amit Langote Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BHiwqGEmiib8FLiHMhKB%2BCH5dRgHSLc5N5wnvc4kym%2BZYpQEQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-09-27Move resolution of AlternativeSubPlan choices to the planner.Tom Lane
When commit bd3daddaf introduced AlternativeSubPlans, I had some ambitions towards allowing the choice of subplan to change during execution. That has not happened, or even been thought about, in the ensuing twelve years; so it seems like a failed experiment. So let's rip that out and resolve the choice of subplan at the end of planning (in setrefs.c) rather than during executor startup. This has a number of positive benefits: * Removal of a few hundred lines of executor code, since AlternativeSubPlans need no longer be supported there. * Removal of executor-startup overhead (particularly, initialization of subplans that won't be used). * Removal of incidental costs of having a larger plan tree, such as tree-scanning and copying costs in the plancache; not to mention setrefs.c's own costs of processing the discarded subplans. * EXPLAIN no longer has to print a weird (and undocumented) representation of an AlternativeSubPlan choice; it sees only the subplan actually used. This should mean less confusion for users. * Since setrefs.c knows which subexpression of a plan node it's working on at any instant, it's possible to adjust the estimated number of executions of the subplan based on that. For example, we should usually estimate more executions of a qual expression than a targetlist expression. The implementation used here is pretty simplistic, because we don't want to expend a lot of cycles on the issue; but it's better than ignoring the point entirely, as the executor had to. That last point might possibly result in shifting the choice between hashed and non-hashed EXISTS subplans in a few cases, but in general this patch isn't meant to change planner choices. Since we're doing the resolution so late, it's really impossible to change any plan choices outside the AlternativeSubPlan itself. Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1992952.1592785225@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-07-31Fix comment in instrument.hMichael Paquier
local_blks_dirtied tracks the number of local blocks dirtied, not shared ones. Author: Kirk Jamison Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB2341760686DC056DE89D2AB9EF710@OSBPR01MB2341.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2020-07-29Add hash_mem_multiplier GUC.Peter Geoghegan
Add a GUC that acts as a multiplier on work_mem. It gets applied when sizing executor node hash tables that were previously size constrained using work_mem alone. The new GUC can be used to preferentially give hash-based nodes more memory than the generic work_mem limit. It is intended to enable admin tuning of the executor's memory usage. Overall system throughput and system responsiveness can be improved by giving hash-based executor nodes more memory (especially over sort-based alternatives, which are often much less sensitive to being memory constrained). The default value for hash_mem_multiplier is 1.0, which is also the minimum valid value. This means that hash-based nodes continue to apply work_mem in the traditional way by default. hash_mem_multiplier is generally useful. However, it is being added now due to concerns about hash aggregate performance stability for users that upgrade to Postgres 13 (which added disk-based hash aggregation in commit 1f39bce0). While the old hash aggregate behavior risked out-of-memory errors, it is nevertheless likely that many users actually benefited. Hash agg's previous indifference to work_mem during query execution was not just faster; it also accidentally made aggregation resilient to grouping estimate problems (at least in cases where this didn't create destabilizing memory pressure). hash_mem_multiplier can provide a certain kind of continuity with the behavior of Postgres 12 hash aggregates in cases where the planner incorrectly estimates that all groups (plus related allocations) will fit in work_mem/hash_mem. This seems necessary because hash-based aggregation is usually much slower when only a small fraction of all groups can fit. Even when it isn't possible to totally avoid hash aggregates that spill, giving hash aggregation more memory will reliably improve performance (the same cannot be said for external sort operations, which appear to be almost unaffected by memory availability provided it's at least possible to get a single merge pass). The PostgreSQL 13 release notes should advise users that increasing hash_mem_multiplier can help with performance regressions associated with hash aggregation. That can be taken care of by a later commit. Author: Peter Geoghegan Reviewed-By: Álvaro Herrera, Jeff Davis Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200625203629.7m6yvut7eqblgmfo@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmD%2Bi1pG6rc1%2BCjc4V6EaFJ_qSuKCCHVnH%3DoruqD-zqow%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 13-, where disk-based hash aggregation was introduced.
2020-07-28HashAgg: use better cardinality estimate for recursive spilling.Jeff Davis
Use HyperLogLog to estimate the group cardinality in a spilled partition. This estimate is used to choose the number of partitions if we recurse. The previous behavior was to use the number of tuples in a spilled partition as the estimate for the number of groups, which lead to overpartitioning. That could cause the number of batches to be much higher than expected (with each batch being very small), which made it harder to interpret EXPLAIN ANALYZE results. Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a856635f9284bc36f7a77d02f47bbb6aaf7b59b3.camel@j-davis.com Backpatch-through: 13
2020-07-26Fix LookupTupleHashEntryHash() pipeline-stall issue.Jeff Davis
Refactor hash lookups in nodeAgg.c to improve performance. Author: Andres Freund and Jeff Davis Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200612213715.op4ye4q7gktqvpuo%40alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch-through: 13
2020-07-17Use MinimalTuple for tuple queues.Thomas Munro
This representation saves 8 bytes per tuple compared to HeapTuple, and avoids the need to allocate, copy and free on the receiving side. Gather can emit the returned MinimalTuple directly, but GatherMerge now needs to make an explicit copy because it buffers multiple tuples at a time. That should be no worse than before. Reviewed-by: Soumyadeep Chakraborty <soumyadeep2007@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B8T_ggoUTAE-U%3DA%2BOcPc4%3DB0nPPHcSfffuQhvXXjML6w%40mail.gmail.com
2020-06-19Fix EXPLAIN ANALYZE for parallel HashAgg plansDavid Rowley
Since 1f39bce02, HashAgg nodes have had the ability to spill to disk when memory consumption exceeds work_mem. That commit added new properties to EXPLAIN ANALYZE to show the maximum memory usage and disk usage, however, it didn't quite go as far as showing that information for parallel workers. Since workers may have experienced something very different from the main process, we should show this information per worker, as is done in Sort. Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpEKbfZa18mM1TD7qV6PG+w97pwCWq5tVD0dX7e11gRJw@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13, where the hashagg spilling code was added.
2020-06-12Avoid using a cursor in plpgsql's RETURN QUERY statement.Tom Lane
plpgsql has always executed the query given in a RETURN QUERY command by opening it as a cursor and then fetching a few rows at a time, which it turns around and dumps into the function's result tuplestore. The point of this was to keep from blowing out memory with an oversized SPITupleTable result (note that while a tuplestore can spill tuples to disk, SPITupleTable cannot). However, it's rather inefficient, both because of extra data copying and because of executor entry/exit overhead. In recent versions, a new performance problem has emerged: use of a cursor prevents use of a parallel plan for the executed query. We can improve matters by skipping use of a cursor and having the executor push result tuples directly into the function's result tuplestore. However, a moderate amount of new infrastructure is needed to make that idea work: * We can use the existing tstoreReceiver.c DestReceiver code to funnel executor output to the tuplestore, but it has to be extended to support plpgsql's requirement for possibly applying a tuple conversion map. * SPI needs to be extended to allow use of a caller-supplied DestReceiver instead of its usual receiver that puts tuples into a SPITupleTable. Two new API calls are needed to handle both the RETURN QUERY and RETURN QUERY EXECUTE cases. I also felt that I didn't want these new API calls to use the legacy method of specifying query parameter values with "char" null flags (the old ' '/'n' convention); rather they should accept ParamListInfo objects containing the parameter type and value info. This required a bit of additional new infrastructure since we didn't yet have any parse analysis callback that would interpret $N parameter symbols according to type data supplied in a ParamListInfo. There seems to be no harm in letting makeParamList install that callback by default, rather than leaving a new ParamListInfo's parserSetup hook as NULL. (Indeed, as of HEAD, I couldn't find anyplace that was using the parserSetup field at all; plpgsql was using parserSetupArg for its own purposes, but parserSetup seemed to be write-only.) We can actually get plpgsql out of the business of using legacy null flags altogether, and using ParamListInfo instead of its ad-hoc PreparedParamsData structure; but this requires inventing one more SPI API call that can replace SPI_cursor_open_with_args. That seems worth doing, though. SPI_execute_with_args and SPI_cursor_open_with_args are now unused anywhere in the core PG distribution. Perhaps someday we could deprecate/remove them. But cleaning up the crufty bits of the SPI API is a task for a different patch. Per bug #16040 from Jeremy Smith. This is unfortunately too invasive to consider back-patching. Patch by me; thanks to Hamid Akhtar for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16040-eaacad11fecfb198@postgresql.org
2020-05-14Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13.Tom Lane
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up, most of which weren't per project style anyway. Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get indented.
2020-05-05Change the display of WAL usage statistics in Explain.Amit Kapila
In commit 33e05f89c5, we have added the option to display WAL usage statistics in Explain and auto_explain. The display format used two spaces between each field which is inconsistent with Buffer usage statistics which is using one space between each field. Change the format to make WAL usage statistics consistent with Buffer usage statistics. This commit also changed the usage of "full page writes" to "full page images" for WAL usage statistics to make it consistent with other parts of code and docs. Author: Julien Rouhaud, Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Kyotaro Horiguchi and Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-13Cosmetic fixups for WAL usage work.Amit Kapila
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby and Euler Taveira Author: Justin Pryzby and Julien Rouhaud Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-11Make EXPLAIN report maximum hashtable usage across multiple rescans.Tom Lane
Before discarding the old hash table in ExecReScanHashJoin, capture its statistics, ensuring that we report the maximum hashtable size across repeated rescans of the hash input relation. We can repurpose the existing code for reporting hashtable size in parallel workers to help with this, making the patch pretty small. This also ensures that if rescans happen within parallel workers, we get the correct maximums across all instances. Konstantin Knizhnik and Tom Lane, per diagnosis by Thomas Munro of a trouble report from Alvaro Herrera. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200323165059.GA24950@alvherre.pgsql
2020-04-07Create memory context for HashAgg with a reasonable maxBlockSize.Jeff Davis
If the memory context's maxBlockSize is too big, a single block allocation can suddenly exceed work_mem. For Hash Aggregation, this can mean spilling to disk too early or reporting a confusing memory usage number for EXPLAN ANALYZE. Introduce CreateWorkExprContext(), which is like CreateExprContext(), except that it creates the AllocSet with a maxBlockSize that is reasonable in proportion to work_mem. Right now, CreateWorkExprContext() is only used by Hash Aggregation, but it may be generally useful in the future. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/412a3fbf306f84d8d78c4009e11791867e62b87c.camel@j-davis.com
2020-04-06Implement Incremental SortTomas Vondra
Incremental Sort is an optimized variant of multikey sort for cases when the input is already sorted by a prefix of the requested sort keys. For example when the relation is already sorted by (key1, key2) and we need to sort it by (key1, key2, key3) we can simply split the input rows into groups having equal values in (key1, key2), and only sort/compare the remaining column key3. This has a number of benefits: - Reduced memory consumption, because only a single group (determined by values in the sorted prefix) needs to be kept in memory. This may also eliminate the need to spill to disk. - Lower startup cost, because Incremental Sort produce results after each prefix group, which is beneficial for plans where startup cost matters (like for example queries with LIMIT clause). We consider both Sort and Incremental Sort, and decide based on costing. The implemented algorithm operates in two different modes: - Fetching a minimum number of tuples without check of equality on the prefix keys, and sorting on all columns when safe. - Fetching all tuples for a single prefix group and then sorting by comparing only the remaining (non-prefix) keys. We always start in the first mode, and employ a heuristic to switch into the second mode if we believe it's beneficial - the goal is to minimize the number of unnecessary comparions while keeping memory consumption below work_mem. This is a very old patch series. The idea was originally proposed by Alexander Korotkov back in 2013, and then revived in 2017. In 2018 the patch was taken over by James Coleman, who wrote and rewrote most of the current code. There were many reviewers/contributors since 2013 - I've done my best to pick the most active ones, and listed them in this commit message. Author: James Coleman, Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Andreas Karlsson, Marti Raudsepp, Peter Geoghegan, Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Antonin Houska, Andres Freund, Alexander Kuzmenkov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdscOX5an71nHd8WSUH6GNOCf=V7wgDaTXdDd9=goN-gfA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfds1waRZ=NOmueYq0sx1ZSCnt+5QJvizT8ndT2=etZEeAQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-04Add infrastructure to track WAL usage.Amit Kapila
This allows gathering the WAL generation statistics for each statement execution. The three statistics that we collect are the number of WAL records, the number of full page writes and the amount of WAL bytes generated. This helps the users who have write-intensive workload to see the impact of I/O due to WAL. This further enables us to see approximately what percentage of overall WAL is due to full page writes. In the future, we can extend this functionality to allow us to compute the the exact amount of WAL data due to full page writes. This patch in itself is just an infrastructure to compute WAL usage data. The upcoming patches will expose this data via explain, auto_explain, pg_stat_statements and verbose (auto)vacuum output. Author: Kirill Bychik, Julien Rouhaud Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Fujii Masao and Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-03Include chunk overhead in hash table entry size estimate.Jeff Davis
Don't try to be precise about it, just use a constant 16 bytes of chunk overhead. Being smarter would require knowing the memory context where the chunk will be allocated, which is not known by all callers. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200325220936.il3ni2fj2j2b45y5@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-03-30Expose BufferUsageAccumDiff().Fujii Masao
Previously pg_stat_statements calculated the difference of buffer counters by its own code even while BufferUsageAccumDiff() had the same code. This commit expose BufferUsageAccumDiff() and makes pg_stat_statements use it for the calculation, in order to simply the code. This change also would be useful for the upcoming patch for the planning counters in pg_stat_statements because the patch will add one more code for the calculation of difference of buffer counters and that can easily be done by using BufferUsageAccumDiff(). Author: Julien Rouhaud Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bdfee4e0-a304-2498-8da5-3cb52c0a193e@oss.nttdata.com
2020-03-25Go back to returning int from ereport auxiliary functions.Tom Lane
This reverts the parts of commit 17a28b03645e27d73bf69a95d7569b61e58f06eb that changed ereport's auxiliary functions from returning dummy integer values to returning void. It turns out that a minority of compilers complain (not entirely unreasonably) about constructs such as (condition) ? errdetail(...) : 0 if errdetail() returns void rather than int. We could update those call sites to say "(void) 0" perhaps, but the expectation for this patch set was that ereport callers would not have to change anything. And this aspect of the patch set was already the most invasive and least compelling part of it, so let's just drop it. Per buildfarm. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-24Improve the internal implementation of ereport().Tom Lane
Change all the auxiliary error-reporting routines to return void, now that we no longer need to pretend they are passing something useful to errfinish(). While this probably doesn't save anything significant at the machine-code level, it allows detection of some additional types of mistakes. Pass the error location details (__FILE__, __LINE__, PG_FUNCNAME_MACRO) to errfinish not errstart. This shaves a few cycles off the case where errstart decides we're not going to emit anything. Re-implement elog() as a trivial wrapper around ereport(), removing the separate support infrastructure it used to have. Aside from getting rid of some now-surplus code, this means that elog() now really does have exactly the same semantics as ereport(), in particular that it can skip evaluation work if the message is not to be emitted. Andres Freund and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-18Disk-based Hash Aggregation.Jeff Davis
While performing hash aggregation, track memory usage when adding new groups to a hash table. If the memory usage exceeds work_mem, enter "spill mode". In spill mode, new groups are not created in the hash table(s), but existing groups continue to be advanced if input tuples match. Tuples that would cause a new group to be created are instead spilled to a logical tape to be processed later. The tuples are spilled in a partitioned fashion. When all tuples from the outer plan are processed (either by advancing the group or spilling the tuple), finalize and emit the groups from the hash table. Then, create new batches of work from the spilled partitions, and select one of the saved batches and process it (possibly spilling recursively). Author: Jeff Davis Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Adam Lee, Justin Pryzby, Taylor Vesely, Melanie Plageman Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/507ac540ec7c20136364b5272acbcd4574aa76ef.camel@j-davis.com
2020-03-04Extend ExecBuildAggTrans() to support a NULL pointer check.Jeff Davis
Optionally push a step to check for a NULL pointer to the pergroup state. This will be important for disk-based hash aggregation in combination with grouping sets. When memory limits are reached, a given tuple may find its per-group state for some grouping sets but not others. For the former, it advances the per-group state as normal; for the latter, it skips evaluation and the calling code will have to spill the tuple and reprocess it in a later batch. Add the NULL check as a separate expression step because in some common cases it's not needed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200221202212.ssb2qpmdgrnx52sj%40alap3.anarazel.de
2020-02-24expression eval: Reduce number of steps for agg transition invocations.Andres Freund
Do so by combining the various steps that are part of aggregate transition function invocation into one larger step. As some of the current steps are only necessary for some aggregates, have one variant of the aggregate transition step for each possible combination. To avoid further manual copies of code in the different transition step implementations, move most of the code into helper functions marked as "always inline". The benefit of this change is an increase in performance when aggregating lots of rows. This comes in part due to the reduced number of indirect jumps due to the reduced number of steps, and in part by reducing redundant setup code across steps. This mainly benefits interpreted execution, but the code generated by JIT is also improved a bit. As a nice side-effect it also ends up making the code a bit simpler. A small additional optimization is removing the need to set aggstate->curaggcontext before calling ExecAggInitGroup, choosing to instead passign curaggcontext as an argument. It was, in contrast to other aggregate related functions, only needed to fetch a memory context to copy the transition value into. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191023163849.sosqbfs5yenocez3@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/5c371df7cee903e8cd4c685f90c6c72086d3a2dc.camel@j-davis.com
2020-02-17Optimize update of tables with generated columnsPeter Eisentraut
When updating a table row with generated columns, only recompute those generated columns whose base columns have changed in this update and keep the rest unchanged. This can result in a significant performance benefit. The required information was already kept in RangeTblEntry.extraUpdatedCols; we just have to make use of it. Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b05e781a-fa16-6b52-6738-761181204567@2ndquadrant.com
2020-02-10Change signature of TupleHashTableHash().Jeff Davis
Commit 4eaea3db introduced TupleHashTableHash(), but the signature didn't match the other exposed functions. Separate it into internal and external versions. The external version hides the details behind an API more consistent with the other external functions, and the internal version is still suitable for simplehash.
2020-02-06Introduce TupleHashTableHash() and LookupTupleHashEntryHash().Jeff Davis
Expose two new entry points: one for only calculating the hash value of a tuple, and another for looking up a hash entry when the hash value is already known. This will be useful for disk-based Hash Aggregation to avoid recomputing the hash value for the same tuple after saving and restoring it from disk. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/37091115219dd522fd9ed67333ee8ed1b7e09443.camel%40j-davis.com
2020-02-06expression eval: Don't redundantly keep track of AggState.Andres Freund
It's already tracked via ExprState->parent, so we don't need to also include it in ExprEvalStep. When that code originally was written ExprState->parent didn't exist, but it since has been introduced in 6719b238e8f. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191023163849.sosqbfs5yenocez3@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-02-06Refactor hash_agg_entry_size().Jeff Davis
Consolidate the calculations for hash table size estimation. This will help with upcoming Hash Aggregation work that will add additional call sites.
2020-01-08Improve the handling of result type coercions in SQL functions.Tom Lane
Use the parser's standard type coercion machinery to convert the output column(s) of a SQL function's final SELECT or RETURNING to the type(s) they should have according to the function's declared result type. We'll allow any case where an assignment-level coercion is available. Previously, we failed unless the required coercion was a binary-compatible one (and the documentation ignored this, falsely claiming that the types must match exactly). Notably, the coercion now accounts for typmods, so that cases where a SQL function is declared to return a composite type whose columns are typmod-constrained now behave as one would expect. Arguably this aspect is a bug fix, but the overall behavioral change here seems too large to consider back-patching. A nice side-effect is that functions can now be inlined in a few cases where we previously failed to do so because of type mismatches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18929.1574895430@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-12-27Revert "Rename files and headers related to index AM"Michael Paquier
This follows multiple complains from Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund and Alvaro Herrera that this issue ought to be dug more before actually happening, if it happens. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191226144606.GA5659@alvherre.pgsql
2019-12-25Rename files and headers related to index AMMichael Paquier
The following renaming is done so as source files related to index access methods are more consistent with table access methods (the original names used for index AMs ware too generic, and could be confused as including features related to table AMs): - amapi.h -> indexam.h. - amapi.c -> indexamapi.c. Here we have an equivalent with backend/access/table/tableamapi.c. - amvalidate.c -> indexamvalidate.c. - amvalidate.h -> indexamvalidate.h. - genam.c -> indexgenam.c. - genam.h -> indexgenam.h. This has been discussed during the development of v12 when table AM was worked on, but the renaming never happened. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191223053434.GF34339@paquier.xyz
2019-12-05Minor comment improvements for instrumentation.hRobert Haas
Remove a duplicated word. Add "of" or "# of" in a couple places for clarity and consistency. Start comments with a lower case letter as we do elsewhere in this file. Rafia Sabih
2019-11-25Make the order of the header file includes consistent.Amit Kapila
Similar to commits 14aec03502, 7e735035f2 and dddf4cdc33, this commit makes the order of header file inclusion consistent in more places. Author: Vignesh C Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2Sznv8RR6Ex-iJO6xAdsxgWhCoETkaYX=+9DW3q0QCfA@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-06Minor code review for tuple slot rewrite.Tom Lane
Avoid creating transiently-inconsistent slot states where possible, by not setting TTS_FLAG_SHOULDFREE until after the slot actually has a free'able tuple pointer, and by making sure that we reset tts_nvalid and related derived state before we replace the tuple contents. This would only matter if something were to examine the slot after we'd suffered some kind of error (e.g. out of memory) while manipulating the slot. We typically don't do that, so these changes might just be cosmetic --- but even if so, it seems like good future-proofing. Also remove some redundant Asserts, and add a couple for consistency. Back-patch to v12 where all this code was rewritten. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16095-c3ff2e5283b8dba5@postgresql.org
2019-10-04Fix crash caused by EPQ happening with a before update trigger present.Andres Freund
When ExecBRUpdateTriggers()'s GetTupleForTrigger() follows an EPQ chain the former needs to run the result tuple through the junkfilter again, and update the slot containing the new version of the tuple to contain that new version. The input tuple may already be in the junkfilter's output slot, which used to be OK - we don't need the previous version anymore. Unfortunately ff11e7f4b9ae started to use ExecCopySlot() to update newslot, and ExecCopySlot() doesn't support copying a slot into itself, leading to a slot in a corrupt state, which then can cause crashes or other symptoms. Fix this by skipping the ExecCopySlot() when copying into itself. While we could have easily made ExecCopySlot() handle that case, it seems better to add an assert forbidding doing so instead. As the goal of copying might be to make the contents of one slot independent from another, it seems failure prone to handle doing so silently. A follow-up commit will add tests for the obviously under-covered combination of EPQ and triggers. Done as a separate commit as it might make sense to backpatch them further than this bug. Also remove confusion with confusing variable names for slots in ExecBRDeleteTriggers() and ExecBRUpdateTriggers(). Bug: #16036 Reported-By: Антон Власов Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16036-28184c90d952fb7f@postgresql.org Backpatch: 12-, where ff11e7f4b9ae was merged
2019-09-09Reorder EPQ work, to fix rowmark related bugs and improve efficiency.Andres Freund
In ad0bda5d24ea I changed the EvalPlanQual machinery to store substitution tuples in slot, instead of using plain HeapTuples. The main motivation for that was that using HeapTuples will be inefficient for future tableams. But it turns out that that conversion was buggy for non-locking rowmarks - the wrong tuple descriptor was used to create the slot. As a secondary issue 5db6df0c0 changed ExecLockRows() to begin EPQ earlier, to allow to fetch the locked rows directly into the EPQ slots, instead of having to copy tuples around. Unfortunately, as Tom complained, that forces some expensive initialization to happen earlier. As a third issue, the test coverage for EPQ was clearly insufficient. Fixing the first issue is unfortunately not trivial: Non-locked row marks were fetched at the start of EPQ, and we don't have the type information for the rowmarks available at that point. While we could change that, it's not easy. It might be worthwhile to change that at some point, but to fix this bug, it seems better to delay fetching non-locking rowmarks when they're actually needed, rather than eagerly. They're referenced at most once, and in cases where EPQ fails, might never be referenced. Fetching them when needed also increases locality a bit. To be able to fetch rowmarks during execution, rather than initialization, we need to be able to access the active EPQState, as that contains necessary data. To do so move EPQ related data from EState to EPQState, and, only for EStates creates as part of EPQ, reference the associated EPQState from EState. To fix the second issue, change EPQ initialization to allow use of EvalPlanQualSlot() to be used before EvalPlanQualBegin() (but obviously still requiring EvalPlanQualInit() to have been done). As these changes made struct EState harder to understand, e.g. by adding multiple EStates, significantly reorder the members, and add a lot more comments. Also add a few more EPQ tests, including one that fails for the first issue above. More is needed. Reported-By: yi huang Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHU7rYZo_C4ULsAx_LAj8az9zqgrD8WDd4hTegDTMM1LMqrBsg@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/24530.1562686693@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch: 12-, where the EPQ changes were introduced