The current extended statistics code was a bit confused which collation
to use. When building the statistics, the collations defined as default
for the data types were used (since commit 5e0928005). The MCV code was
however using the column collations for MCV serialization, and then
DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID when computing estimates. So overall the code was
using all three possible options, inconsistently.
This uses the column colation everywhere - this makes it consistent with
what 5e0928005 did for regular stats. We however do not track the
collations in a catalog, because we can derive them from column-level
information. This may need to change in the future, e.g. after allowing
statistics on expressions.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu
Backpatch-to: 12
The examine_opclause_expression function needs to return information on
which side of the operator we found the Var, but the variable was called
"isgt" which is rather misleading (it assumes the operator is either
less-than or greater-than, but it may be equality or something else).
Other places in the planner use a variable called "varonleft" for this
purpose, so just adopt the same convention here.
The code also assumed we don't care about this flag for equality, as
(Var = Const) and (Const = Var) should be the same thing. But that does
not work for cross-type operators, in which case we need to pass the
parameters to the procedure in the right order. So just use the same
code for all types of expressions.
This means we don't need to care about the selectivity estimation
function anymore, at least not in this code. We should only get the
supported cases here (thanks to statext_is_compatible_clause).
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu
Backpatch-to: 12
Absorb commit e5e04c962a5d12eebbf867ca25905b3ccc34cbe0 from upstream
IANA code, in hopes of silencing warnings from MSVC about negating
a bool value.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190719035347.GJ1859@paquier.xyz
16828d5 has improved ALTER TABLE so as a column addition does not
require a rewrite for a non-NULL default with constant expressions, but
one spot in the documentation did not get updated consistently.
The documentation also now clarifies the fact that this does not apply
if the expression is volatile, where a table rewrite is still required.
Reported-by: Daniel Westermann
Author: Ian Barwick
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Daniel Westermann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DB6PR0902MB2184C7D5645CF15D75EB7957D2CF0@DB6PR0902MB2184.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 11
The values 'infinity' and '-infinity' are a part of the DATE type
itself, so a bound of the date 'infinity' is not the same as an
unbounded/infinite range. However, it is still wrong to try to
canonicalize such values, because adding or subtracting one has no
effect. Fix by treating 'infinity' and '-infinity' the same as
unbounded ranges for the purposes of canonicalization (but not other
purposes).
Backpatch to all versions because it is inconsistent with the
documented behavior. Note that this could be an incompatibility for
applications relying on the behavior contrary to the documentation.
Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/77f24ea19ab802bc9bc60ddbb8977ee2d646aec1.camel%40cybertec.at
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Commit 857f9c36cd, which taught nbtree VACUUM to avoid unnecessary
index scans, bumped the nbtree version number from 2 to 3, while adding
the ability for nbtree indexes to be upgraded on-the-fly. Various
assertions that assumed that an nbtree index was always on version 2 had
to be changed to accept any supported version (version 2 or 3 on
Postgres 11).
However, a few assertions were missed in the initial commit, all of
which were in code paths that cache a local copy of the metapage
metadata, where the index had been expected to be on the current version
(no longer version 2) as a generic sanity check. Rather than simply
update the assertions, follow-up commit 0a64b45152 intentionally made
the metapage caching code update the per-backend cached metadata version
without changing the on-disk version at the same time. This could even
happen when the planner needed to determine the height of a B-Tree for
costing purposes. The assertions only fail on Postgres v12 when
upgrading from v10, because they were adjusted to use the authoritative
shared memory metapage by v12's commit dd299df8.
To fix, remove the cache-only upgrade mechanism entirely, and update the
assertions themselves to accept any supported version (go back to using
the cached version in v12). The fix is almost a full revert of commit
0a64b45152 on the v11 branch.
VACUUM only considers the authoritative metapage, and never bothers with
a locally cached version, whereas everywhere else isn't interested in
the metapage fields that were added by commit 857f9c36cd. It seems
unlikely that this bug has affected any user on v11.
Reported-By: Christoph Berg
Bug: #15896
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15896-5b25e260fdb0b081%40postgresql.org
Backpatch: 11-, where VACUUM was taught to avoid unnecessary index scans.
When evaluating clauses on a multivariate MCV list, we build a bitmap
tracking how the clauses match each item of the MCV list. When updating
the bitmap we need to consider the current value (tracking how the item
matches preceding clauses), match for the current clause and whether the
clauses are connected by AND or OR.
Until now the logic was copied on every place updating the bitmap, which
was not quite readable. So just move it to a separate function and call
it where needed.
Backpatch to 12, where the code was introduced. While not a bugfix, this
should make maintenance and future backpatches easier.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu
There were two issues in how the extended statistics handled NULL values
in opclauses. Firstly, the code was oblivious to the possibility that
Const may be NULL (constisnull=true) in which case the constvalue is
undefined. We need to treat this as a mismatch, and not call the proc.
Secondly, the MCV item itself may contain NULL values too - the code
already did check that, and updated the match bitmap accordingly, but
failed to ensure we won't call the operator procedure anyway. It did
work for AND-clauses, because in that case false in the bitmap stops
evaluation of further clauses. But for OR-clauses ir was not easy to
get incorrect estimates or even trigger a crash.
This fixes both issues by extending the existing check so that it looks
at constisnull too, and making sure it skips calling the procedure.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu
We expect opclauses to have exactly one Var and one Const, but the code
was checking the Const by calling is_pseudo_constant_clause() which is
incorrect - we need a proper constant.
Fixed by using plain IsA(x,Const) to check type of the node. We need to
do these checks in two places, so move it into a separate function that
can be called in both places.
Reported by Andreas Seltenreich, based on crash reported by sqlsmith.
Backpatch to v12, where this code was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu
Backpatch-to: 12
The TYPECACHE_GT_OPR is not needed (it used to be in older version of
the MCV code), but the compiler failed to detect this as the result was
used in a fmgr_info() call, populating a FmgrInfo entry.
Backpatch to v12, where this code was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu
Backpatch-to: 12
The documentation mentioned that data checksums cannot be changed after
initialization, which is not true as pg_checksums can do that with its
--enable option introduced in v12. This simply removes the sentence
telling so.
Reported-by: Basil Bourque
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15909-e9d74271f1647472@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
A large fraction of this diff is just due to upstream's somewhat
random decision to rename a bunch of internal variables and struct
fields. However, there is an interesting new feature in zic:
it's grown a "-b slim" option that emits zone files without 32-bit
data and other backwards-compatibility hacks. We should consider
whether we wish to enable that.
This should lappend the OIDs, not lcons them; the existing code produced
a list in reversed order. This is harmless for single-key FKs or FKs
where all the key columns are of the same type, which probably explains
how it went unnoticed. But if those conditions are not met,
ATAddForeignKeyConstraint would make the wrong decision about whether an
existing FK needs to be revalidated. I think it would almost always err
in the safe direction by revalidating a constraint that didn't need it.
You could imagine scenarios where the pfeqop check was fooled by
swapping the types of two FK columns in one ALTER TABLE, but that case
would probably be rejected by other tests, so it might be impossible to
get to the worst-case scenario where an FK should be revalidated and
isn't. (And even then, it's likely to be fine, unless there are weird
inconsistencies in the equality behavior of the replacement types.)
However, this is a performance bug at least.
Noted while poking around to see whether lcons calls could be converted
to lappend.
This bug is old, dating to commit cb3a7c2b9, so back-patch to all
supported branches.
The logic just added by commit e3899ffd falls back on a 50:50 page split
in the event of a new item that's just to the right of our provisional
"many duplicates" split point. Fix a comment that incorrectly claimed
that the new item had to be just to the left of our provisional split
point.
Backpatch: 12-, just like commit e3899ffd.
Specific ever-decreasing insertion patterns could cause successive
unbalanced nbtree page splits. Problem cases involve a large group of
duplicates to the left, and ever-decreasing insertions to the right.
To fix, detect the situation by considering the newitem offset before
performing a split using nbtsplitloc.c's "many duplicates" strategy. If
the new item was inserted just to the right of our provisional "many
duplicates" split point, infer ever-decreasing insertions and fall back
on a 50:50 (space delta optimal) split. This seems to barely affect
cases that already had acceptable space utilization.
An alternative fix also seems possible. Instead of changing
nbtsplitloc.c split choice logic, we could instead teach _bt_truncate()
to generate a new value for new high keys by interpolating from the
lastleft and firstright key values. That would certainly be a more
elegant fix, but it isn't suitable for backpatching.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznCNvhZpxa__GqAa1fgQ9uYdVc=_apArkW2nc-K3O7_NA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 12-, where the nbtree page split enhancements were introduced.
Commit 578b229718 replaced it with a
concurrent "nextval" test. That version does not detect PostgreSQL's
incompatibility with xlc 13.1.3, so bring back an OID-based test that
does. Back-patch to v12, where that commit first appeared.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190707170035.GA1485546@rfd.leadboat.com
Commit 3ca930fc3 modified get_actual_variable_range() to use a new
"SnapshotNonVacuumable" snapshot type for selecting tuples that it
would consider valid. However, because that snapshot type can accept
recently-dead tuples, this caused a bug when using a recently-created
index: we might accept a recently-dead tuple that is an early member
of a broken HOT chain and does not actually match the index entry.
Then, the data extracted from the heap tuple would not necessarily be
an endpoint value of the column; it could even be NULL, leading to
get_actual_variable_range() itself reporting "found unexpected null
value in index". Even without an error, this could lead to poor
plan choices due to an erroneous notion of the endpoint value.
We can improve matters by changing the code to use the index-only
scan technique (which didn't exist when get_actual_variable_range was
originally written). If any of the tuples in a HOT chain are live
enough to satisfy SnapshotNonVacuumable, we take the data from the
index entry, ignoring what is in the heap. This fixes the problem
without changing the live-vs-dead-tuple behavior from what was
intended by commit 3ca930fc3.
A side benefit is that for static tables we might not have to touch
the heap at all (when the extremal value is in an all-visible page).
In addition, we can save some overhead by not having to create a
complete ExecutorState, and we don't need to run FormIndexDatum,
avoiding more cycles as well as the possibility of failure for
indexes on expressions. (I'm not sure that this code would ever
be used to determine the extreme value of an expression, in the
current state of the planner; but it's definitely possible that
lower-order columns of the selected index could be expressions.
So one could construct perhaps-artificial examples in which the
old code unexpectedly failed due to trying to compute an
expression's value for a now-dead row.)
Per report from Manuel Rigger. Back-patch to v11 where commit
3ca930fc3 came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA7W4NWEhCvftdV6_8bbm2vgypi5nuxfnSEJQqVKFSUoMg@mail.gmail.com
match_clause_to_partition_key incorrectly would return
PARTCLAUSE_UNSUPPORTED if a bool qual could not be matched to the current
partition key. This was a problem, as it causes the calling function to
discard the qual and not try to match it to any other partition key. If
there was another partition key which did match this qual, then the qual
would not be checked again and we could fail to prune some partitions.
The worst this could do was to cause partitions not to be pruned when they
could have been, so there was no danger of incorrect query results here.
Fix this by changing match_boolean_partition_clause to have it return a
PartClauseMatchStatus rather than a boolean value. This allows it to
communicate if the qual is unsupported or if it just does not match this
particular partition key, previously these two cases were treated the
same. Now, if match_clause_to_partition_key is unable to match the qual
to any other qual type then we can simply return the value from the
match_boolean_partition_clause call so that the calling function properly
treats the qual as either unmatched or unsupported.
Reported-by: Rares Salcudean
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Backpatch-through: 11 where partition pruning was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHp_FN2xwEznH6oyS0hNTuUUZKp5PvegcVv=Co6nBXJ+mC7Y5w@mail.gmail.com
This can cause valgrind to complain, as the flag marking a buffer as a
temporary copy was not getting initialized.
While on it, fill in with zeros newly-created buffer pages. This does
not matter when loading a block from a temporary file, but it makes the
push of an index tuple into a new buffer page safer.
This has been introduced by 1d27dcf, so backpatch all the way down to
9.4.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15899-0d24fb273b3dd90c@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.4
86b85044e abstracted calls to heap functions in COPY FROM to support a
generic table AM. However, when performing a copy into a partitioned
table, this commit neglected to call table_finish_bulk_insert for each
partition. Before 86b85044e, when we always called the heap functions,
there was no need to call heapam_finish_bulk_insert for partitions since
it only did any work when performing a copy without WAL. For partitioned
tables, this was unsupported anyway, so there was no issue. With
pluggable storage, we can't make any assumptions about what the table AM
might want to do in its equivalent function, so we'd better ensure we
always call table_finish_bulk_insert each partition that's received a row.
For now, we make the table_finish_bulk_insert call whenever we evict a
CopyMultiInsertBuffer out of the CopyMultiInsertInfo. This does mean
that it's possible that we call table_finish_bulk_insert multiple times
per partition, which is not a problem other than being an inefficiency.
Improving this requires a more invasive patch, so let's leave that for
another day.
This also changes things so that we no longer needlessly call
table_finish_bulk_insert when performing a COPY FROM for a non-partitioned
table when not using multi-inserts.
Reported-by: Robert Haas
Backpatch-through: 12
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYK=6BpxiJ0tN-p9wtH0BTAfbdxzHhwou0mdud4+BkYuQ@mail.gmail.com
Otherwise the regressplans.sh tests generate extremely slow nested
loop joins. Back-patch to 11 where the hash join tests came in.
Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190708055256.GB2709%40paquier.xyz
This code failed to account for the possibility that malloc() would
change errno, resulting in wrong output for %m, not to mention the
possibility of message truncation. Such a change is obviously
expected when malloc fails, but there's reason to fear that on some
platforms even a successful malloc call can modify errno.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2576.1527382833@sss.pgh.pa.us
In normal interactive mode, psql's log messages accidentally got a
"psql:" prefix that was not supposed to be there. This only happened
if there was no .psqlrc file being read, so it wasn't discovered for a
while. Fix this by adding the appropriate logging format
configuration call in the right code path.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7586.1560540361@sss.pgh.pa.us
The itemlen variable used to be referenced in multiple places, but since
reworking the serialization code it's used only in one assert. Fixed by
removing the variable and calling the macro from the assert directly.
Backpatch to 12, where this code was introduced.
Reported-by: Jeff Janes
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1zc_ovH9NZd_9ovuiEWkF9yX06URUDdXCmgDydf-bqB5A@mail.gmail.com
The serialization format of multivariate MCV lists included alignment in
order to allow direct access to part of the serialized data, but despite
multiple fixes (see for example commits d85e0f366a and ea4e1c0e8f) this
proved to be problematic.
This commit abandons alignment in the serialized format, and just copies
everything during deserialization. We now also track amount of memory
needed after deserialization (including alignment), which allows us to
deserialize the MCV list in a single pass.
Bump catversion, as this affects contents of pg_statistic_ext_data.
Backpatch to 12, where multi-column MCV lists were introduced.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2201.1561521148@sss.pgh.pa.us
The function pg_mcv_list_items() returns values stored in MCV items. The
items may contain columns with different data types, so the function was
generating text array-like representation, but in an ad-hoc way without
properly escaping various characters etc.
Fixed by simply building a text[] array, which also makes it easier to
use from queries etc.
Requires changes to pg_proc entry, so bump catversion.
Backpatch to 12, where multi-column MCV lists were introduced.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190618205920.qtlzcu73whfpfqne@development
When building multi-column MCV lists, we compute base frequency for each
item, i.e. a product of per-column frequencies for values from the item.
As a value may be in multiple groups, the code was scanning the whole
array of groups while adding items to the MCV list. This works fine as
long as the number of distinct groups is small, but it's easy to trigger
trigger O(N^2) behavior, especially after increasing statistics target.
This commit precomputes frequencies for values in all columns, so that
when computing the base frequency it's enough to make a simple bsearch
lookup in the array.
Backpatch to 12, where multi-column MCV lists were introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190618205920.qtlzcu73whfpfqne@development
A function that is declared to return a named composite type must
return tuple datums that are physically marked as having that type.
The plpgsql code path that allowed directly returning an expanded-record
datum forgot to check that, so that an expanded record marked as type
RECORDOID could be returned if it had a physically-compatible tupdesc.
This'd be harmless, I think, if the record value never escaped the
current session --- but it's possible for it to get stored into a table,
and then subsequent sessions can't interpret the anonymous record type.
Fix by flattening the record into a tuple datum and overwriting its
type/typmod fields, if its declared type doesn't match the function's
declared type. (In principle it might be possible to just change the
expanded record's stored type ID info, but there are enough tricky
consequences that I didn't want to mess with that, especially not in
a back-patched bug fix.)
Per bug report from Steve Rogerson. Back-patch to v11 where the bug
was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cbaecae6-7b87-584e-45f6-4d047b92ca2a@yewtc.demon.co.uk
d4c3a156c added code to remove columns that were not part of a table's
PRIMARY KEY constraint from the GROUP BY clause when all the primary key
columns were present in the group by. This is fine to do since we know
that there will only be one row per group coming from this relation.
However, the logic failed to consider inheritance parent relations. These
can have child relations without a primary key, but even if they did, they
could duplicate one of the parent's rows or one from another child
relation. In this case, those additional GROUP BY columns are required.
Fix this by disabling the optimization for inheritance parent tables.
In v11 and beyond, partitioned tables are fine since partitions cannot
overlap and before v11 partitioned tables could not have a primary key.
Reported-by: Manuel Rigger
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA7VLKf_vEr6kLF3MnWSA9LToJYncgpNX2tQ-oWzYCBQAw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
