Don't generate 'zero' typeids in the output from gen_cross_product.

This is no longer necessary or appropriate since we don't use zero typeid
as a wildcard anymore, and it fixes a nasty performance problem with
functions with many parameters.  Per recent example from Reuven Lerner.
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Tom Lane 2003-06-25 20:07:39 +00:00
parent 91e6f51afb
commit 5cf18b1ae3
1 changed files with 76 additions and 49 deletions

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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_func.c,v 1.150 2003/06/24 23:14:45 momjian Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_func.c,v 1.151 2003/06/25 20:07:39 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -925,23 +925,29 @@ func_get_detail(List *funcname,
* argtype_inherit() -- Construct an argtype vector reflecting the
* inheritance properties of the supplied argv.
*
* This function is used to disambiguate among functions with the
* same name but different signatures. It takes an array of input
* type ids. For each type id in the array that's a complex type
* (a class), it walks up the inheritance tree, finding all
* superclasses of that type. A vector of new Oid type arrays
* is returned to the caller, reflecting the structure of the
* inheritance tree above the supplied arguments.
* This function is used to handle resolution of function calls when
* there is no match to the given argument types, but there might be
* matches based on considering complex types as members of their
* superclass types (parent classes).
*
* It takes an array of input type ids. For each type id in the array
* that's a complex type (a class), it walks up the inheritance tree,
* finding all superclasses of that type. A vector of new Oid type
* arrays is returned to the caller, listing possible alternative
* interpretations of the input typeids as members of their superclasses
* rather than the actually given argument types. The vector is
* terminated by a NULL pointer.
*
* The order of this vector is as follows: all superclasses of the
* rightmost complex class are explored first. The exploration
* continues from right to left. This policy means that we favor
* keeping the leftmost argument type as low in the inheritance tree
* as possible. This is intentional; it is exactly what we need to
* do for method dispatch. The last type array we return is all
* zeroes. This will match any functions for which return types are
* not defined. There are lots of these (mostly builtins) in the
* catalogs.
* do for method dispatch.
*
* The vector does not include the case where no complex classes have
* been promoted, since that was already tried before this routine
* got called.
*/
static Oid **
argtype_inherit(int nargs, Oid *argtypes)
@ -950,22 +956,13 @@ argtype_inherit(int nargs, Oid *argtypes)
int i;
InhPaths arginh[FUNC_MAX_ARGS];
for (i = 0; i < FUNC_MAX_ARGS; i++)
for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++)
{
if (i < nargs)
{
arginh[i].self = argtypes[i];
if ((relid = typeidTypeRelid(argtypes[i])) != InvalidOid)
arginh[i].nsupers = find_inheritors(relid, &(arginh[i].supervec));
else
{
arginh[i].nsupers = 0;
arginh[i].supervec = (Oid *) NULL;
}
}
arginh[i].self = argtypes[i];
if ((relid = typeidTypeRelid(argtypes[i])) != InvalidOid)
arginh[i].nsupers = find_inheritors(relid, &(arginh[i].supervec));
else
{
arginh[i].self = InvalidOid;
arginh[i].nsupers = 0;
arginh[i].supervec = (Oid *) NULL;
}
@ -975,6 +972,13 @@ argtype_inherit(int nargs, Oid *argtypes)
return gen_cross_product(arginh, nargs);
}
/*
* Look up the parent superclass(es) of the given relation.
*
* *supervec is set to an array of the type OIDs (not the relation OIDs)
* of the parents, with nearest ancestors listed first. It's set to NULL
* if there are no parents. The return value is the number of parents.
*/
static int
find_inheritors(Oid relid, Oid **supervec)
{
@ -1068,58 +1072,81 @@ find_inheritors(Oid relid, Oid **supervec)
return nvisited;
}
/*
* Generate the ordered list of substitute argtype vectors to try.
*
* See comments for argtype_inherit.
*/
static Oid **
gen_cross_product(InhPaths *arginh, int nargs)
{
int nanswers;
Oid **result,
**iter;
Oid **result;
Oid *oneres;
int i,
j;
int cur[FUNC_MAX_ARGS];
/*
* At each position we want to try the original datatype, plus each
* supertype. So the number of possible combinations is this:
*/
nanswers = 1;
for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++)
{
nanswers *= (arginh[i].nsupers + 2);
cur[i] = 0;
}
nanswers *= (arginh[i].nsupers + 1);
iter = result = (Oid **) palloc(sizeof(Oid *) * nanswers);
/*
* We also need an extra slot for the terminating NULL in the result
* array, but that cancels out with the fact that we don't want to
* generate the zero-changes case. So we need exactly nanswers slots.
*/
result = (Oid **) palloc(sizeof(Oid *) * nanswers);
j = 0;
/*
* Compute the cross product from right to left. When cur[i] == 0,
* generate the original input type at position i. When cur[i] == k
* for k > 0, generate its k'th supertype.
*/
MemSet(cur, 0, sizeof(cur));
/* compute the cross product from right to left */
for (;;)
{
oneres = (Oid *) palloc0(FUNC_MAX_ARGS * sizeof(Oid));
/*
* Find a column we can increment. All the columns after it get
* reset to zero. (Essentially, we're adding one to the multi-
* digit number represented by cur[].)
*/
for (i = nargs - 1; i >= 0 && cur[i] >= arginh[i].nsupers; i--)
cur[i] = 0;
for (i = nargs - 1; i >= 0 && cur[i] > arginh[i].nsupers; i--)
continue;
/* if we're done, terminate with NULL pointer */
/* if none, we're done */
if (i < 0)
{
*iter = NULL;
return result;
}
break;
/* no, increment this column and zero the ones after it */
cur[i] = cur[i] + 1;
for (j = nargs - 1; j > i; j--)
cur[j] = 0;
/* increment this column */
cur[i] += 1;
/* Generate the proper output type-OID vector */
oneres = (Oid *) palloc0(FUNC_MAX_ARGS * sizeof(Oid));
for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++)
{
if (cur[i] == 0)
oneres[i] = arginh[i].self;
else if (cur[i] > arginh[i].nsupers)
oneres[i] = 0; /* wild card */
else
oneres[i] = arginh[i].supervec[cur[i] - 1];
}
*iter++ = oneres;
result[j++] = oneres;
}
/* terminate result vector with NULL pointer */
result[j++] = NULL;
Assert(j == nanswers);
return result;
}