Thanks to Andrew for proposing and testing this fix.
It's possible that we should address this on a more fundamental basis,
e.g. by configuring PerlIO to to CR/LF conversion for us, but this
approach already exists in other places. And it's nice to unbreak the
BF.
Proposed-By: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2355d1f0-0244-da9c-ef0c-7542b944e1ac@2ndQuadrant.com
In postgres_fdw, once remote connections are established, they are cached
and re-used for subsequent queries and transactions. There can be some
cases where those cached connections are unavaiable, for example,
by the restart of remote server. In these cases, previously an error was
reported and the query accessing to remote server failed if new remote
transaction failed to start because the cached connection was broken.
This commit improves postgres_fdw so that new connection is remade
if broken connection is detected when starting new remote transaction.
This is useful to avoid unnecessary failure of queries when connection is
broken but can be reestablished.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy, tweaked a bit by Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Tatsuhito Kasahara, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACUAi23vf1WiHNar_LksM9EDOWXcbHCo-fD4Mbr1d=78YQ@mail.gmail.com
Since PG 12, clientcert no longer supported only on/off, so remove 1/0
as possible values, and instead support only the text strings
'verify-ca' and 'verify-full'.
Remove support for 'no-verify' since that is possible by just not
specifying clientcert.
Also, throw an error if 'verify-ca' is used and 'cert' authentication is
used, since cert authentication requires verify-full.
Also improve the docs.
THIS IS A BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE API CHANGE.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200716.093012.1627751694396009053.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Backpatch-through: master
This should help to identify what happened when studying the postmaster
log after-the-fact.
While here, clean up some old comments in the same function.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1568983.1601845687@sss.pgh.pa.us
get_eclass_for_sort_expr() computes expr_relids and nullable_relids
early on, even though they won't be needed unless we make a new
EquivalenceClass, which we often don't. Aside from the probably-minor
inefficiency, there's a memory management problem: these bitmapsets will
be built in the caller's context, leading to dangling pointers if that
is shorter-lived than root->planner_cxt. This would be a live bug if
get_eclass_for_sort_expr() could be called with create_it = true during
GEQO join planning. So far as I can find, the core code never does
that, but it's hard to be sure that no extensions do, especially since
the comments make it clear that that's supposed to be a supported case.
Fix by not computing these values until we've switched into planner_cxt
to build the new EquivalenceClass.
generate_join_implied_equalities() uses inner_rel->relids to look up
relevant eclasses, but it ought to be using nominal_inner_relids.
This is presently harmless because a child RelOptInfo will always have
exactly the same eclass_indexes as its topmost parent; but that might
not be true forever, and anyway it makes the code confusing.
The first of these is old (introduced by me in f3b3b8d5b), so back-patch
to all supported branches. The second only dates to v13, but we might
as well back-patch it to keep the code looking similar across branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1508010.1601832581@sss.pgh.pa.us
The descriptions of make_interval() and pg_options_to_table()
were randomly different from the reality embedded in pg_proc.
(These are not all the discrepancies I found in a quick search,
but the others perhaps require more discussion, since there's
at least a case to be made for changing pg_proc not the docs.)
make_interval issue noted by Thomas Kellerer.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7b154ef0-9f22-90b9-7734-4bf23686695b@gmx.net
Unlike for functions, OUT parameters for procedures are part of the
signature. Therefore, they have to be listed in pg_proc.proargtypes
as well as mentioned in ALTER PROCEDURE and DROP PROCEDURE.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2b8490fe-51af-e671-c504-47359dc453c5@2ndquadrant.com
I noticed while trying to run the regression tests under a low
geqo_threshold that one query on information_schema.columns had
unstable (as in, variable from one run to the next) output order.
This is pretty unsurprising given the complexity of the underlying
plan. Interestingly, of this test's three nigh-identical queries on
information_schema.columns, the other two already had ORDER BY clauses
guaranteeing stable output. Let's make this one look the same.
Back-patch to v10 where this test was added. We've not heard field
reports of the test failing, but this experience shows that it can
happen when testing under even slightly unusual conditions.
The handling of those options was inconsistent, as the processing used
directly the value assigned to the option to check if it was redundant,
leading to patterns like this one to succeed (note that false is
specified first):
COPY hoge to '/path/to/file/' (header off, header on);
And the opposite would fail correctly (note that true is first here):
COPY hoge to '/path/to/file/' (header on, header off);
While on it, add some tests to check for all redundant patterns with the
options of COPY. I have gone through the code and did not notice
similar mistakes for other commands.
"header" got it wrong since b63990c, and "freeze" was wrong from the
start as of 8de72b6. No backpatch is done per the lack of complaints.
Reported-by: Rémi Lapeyre
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200929072433.GA15570@paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0B55BD07-83E4-439F-AACC-FA2D7CF50532@lenstra.fr
The BKI file's string quoting conventions were previously quite weird,
perhaps as a result of repurposing a function built to scan
single-quoted strings to scan double-quoted ones. Change to use the
same rules as we use in GUC files, allowing some simplifications in
genbki.pl and initdb.c.
While at it, completely remove the backend's scanstr() function, which
was essentially a duplicate of the string dequoting code in guc-file.l.
Instead export that one (under a less generic name than it had) and let
bootscanner.l use it. Now we can clarify that scansup.c exists only to
support the main lexer. We could alternatively have removed GUC_scanstr,
but this way seems better since the previous arrangement could mislead
a reader into thinking that scanstr() had something to do with the main
lexer's handling of string literals. Maybe it did once, but if so it
was a long time ago.
This patch does not bump catversion, since the initially-installed
catalog contents don't change. Note however that successful initdb
after applying this patch will require up-to-date postgres.bki as well
as postgres and initdb executables.
In passing, remove a bunch of very-long-obsolete #include's in
bootparse.y and bootscanner.l.
John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCtDpd18T0KATTmCggO2GdVC4ow86ypiq5ENff1VnauL8g@mail.gmail.com
SQL commands are generally marked up as <command>, except when a link
to a reference page is used using <xref>. But the latter doesn't
create monospace markup, so this looks strange especially when a
paragraph contains a mix of links and non-links.
We considered putting <command> in the <refentrytitle> on the target
side, but that creates some formatting side effects elsewhere.
Generally, it seems safer to solve this on the link source side.
We can't put the <xref> inside the <command>; the DTD doesn't allow
this. DocBook 5 would allow the <command> to have the linkend
attribute itself, but we are not there yet.
So to solve this for now, convert the <xref>s to <link> plus
<command>. This gives the correct look and also gives some more
flexibility what we can put into the link text (e.g., subcommands or
other clauses). In the future, these could then be converted to
DocBook 5 style.
I haven't converted absolutely all xrefs to SQL command reference
pages, only those where we care about the appearance of the link text
or where it was otherwise appropriate to make the appearance match a
bit better. Also in some cases, the links where repetitive, so in
those cases the links where just removed and replaced by a plain
<command>. In cases where we just want the link and don't
specifically care about the generated link text (typically phrased
"for further information see <xref ...>") the xref is kept.
Reported-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87o8pco34z.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
This clarifies some wording in the description of the options available
as replication solutions. While on it, this replaces some instances of
"master" with "primary", for consistency with recent changes like
9e101cf.
Author: Robert Treat
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJSLCQ2TPaK_K8raofCamrqELCxY-H6mJrpDNRzc-LKpPY7c+g@mail.gmail.com
This view shows the statistics about WAL activity. Currently it has only
two columns: wal_buffers_full and stats_reset. wal_buffers_full column
indicates the number of times WAL data was written to the disk because
WAL buffers got full. This information is useful when tuning wal_buffers.
stats_reset column indicates the time at which these statistics were
last reset.
pg_stat_wal view is also the basic infrastructure to expose other
various statistics about WAL activity later.
Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID due to the change in pgstat format.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Kapila, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/188bd3f2d2233cf97753b5ced02bb050@oss.nttdata.com
Providing this information can be useful for example when diagnosing
problems related to recovery conflicts or for recovery issues without
having to go through the output generated by pg_waldump to get some
information about the blocks a WAL record works on.
The block information is printed in the same format as pg_waldump. This
already existed in xlog.c for debugging purposes with -DWAL_DEBUG, so
adding the block information in the callback has required just a small
refactoring.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c31e2cba-efda-762c-f4ad-5c25e5dac3d0@amazon.com
Commit 151c0c5f7 neglected the possibility that a TEMP_CONFIG file
would explicitly set max_wal_senders=0; as indeed buildfarm member
thorntail does, so that it can test wal_level=minimal in other test
suites. Hence, rather than assuming that max_wal_senders=10 will
prevail if we say nothing, set it explicitly.
Set max_replication_slots=10 explicitly too, just to be safe.
Back-patch to v10, like the previous patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/723911.1601417626@sss.pgh.pa.us
This is not strictly necessary, as the right-links are only needed by
scans that are concurrent with page splits, and neither scans or page
splits can happen during sorted index build. But it seems like a good
idea to set them anyway, if we e.g. want to add a check to amcheck in
the future to verify that the chain of right-links is complete.
Author: Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4D68C21F-9FB9-41DA-B663-FDFC8D143788%40yandex-team.ru
As fe0a1dc has proved, it is not a good concept to add to libpq
dependencies that would enforce the error output to a central logging
facility because it breaks the promise of reporting the error back to
an application in a consistent way, with the application to potentially
exit() suddenly if using pieces from for example jsonapi.c. prairiedog
has allowed to report an actual design problem with fe0a1dc, but it will
not be around forever, so removing logging.c from libpgcommon_shlib is a
simple and much better long-term way to prevent any attempt to load the
central logging in libraries with general purposes.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200928073330.GC2316@paquier.xyz
I (Andres) broke this in 623a9CA79bx, because I didn't think about the
way snapshots are built on standbys sufficiently. Unfortunately our
existing tests did not catch this, as they are all just querying with
psql (therefore ending up with fresh snapshots).
The fix is trivial, we just need to increment the transaction
completion counter in ExpireTreeKnownAssignedTransactionIds(), which
is the equivalent of ProcArrayEndTransaction() during recovery.
This commit also adds a new test doing some basic testing of the
correctness of snapshots built on standbys. To avoid the
aforementioned issue of one-shot psql's not exercising the snapshot
caching, the test uses a long lived psqls, similar to
013_crash_restart.pl. It'd be good to extend the test further.
Reported-By: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/61291ffe-d611-f889-68b5-c298da9fb18f@2ndquadrant.com
The error message about columns in the primary key not including all of
the partition key was unclear; reword it.
Backpatch all the way to pg11, where it appeared.
Reported-by: Nagaraj Raj <nagaraj.sf@yahoo.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/64062533.78364.1601415362244@mail.yahoo.com
Previously, a conversion such as
to_date('-44-02-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
would result in '0045-02-01 BC', as the code attempted to interpret
the negative year as BC, but failed to apply the correction needed
for our internal handling of BC years. Fix the off-by-one problem.
Also, arrange for the combination of a negative year and an
explicit "BC" marker to cancel out and produce AD. This is how
the negative-century case works, so it seems sane to do likewise.
Continue to read "year 0000" as 1 BC. Oracle would throw an error,
but we've accepted that case for a long time so I'm hesitant to
change it in a back-patch.
Per bug #16419 from Saeed Hubaishan. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Dar Alathar-Yemen and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16419-d8d9db0a7553f01b@postgresql.org
For some reason, the id of the description of
max_parallel_maintenance_workers has been
guc-max-parallel-workers-maintenance since the beginning. Flip that
around to make it consistent.
PostgresNode.pm set "max_wal_senders = 5" for replication testing,
but this seems to be slightly too low for our current test suite.
Slower buildfarm members frequently report "number of requested standby
connections exceeds max_wal_senders" failures, due to old walsenders
not exiting instantaneously. Usually, the test does not fail overall
because of automatic walreceiver restart, but sometimes the failure
becomes visible; and in any case such retries slow down the test.
That value came in with commit 89ac7004d, but was soon obsoleted by
f6d6d2920, which raised the built-in default from zero to 10; so that
PostgresNode.pm is actually setting it to less than the conservative
built-in default. That seems pretty pointless, so let's remove the
special setting and let the default prevail, in hopes of making
the TAP tests more robust.
Likewise, the setting "max_replication_slots = 5" is obsolete and
can be removed.
While here, reverse-engineer a comment about why we're choosing
less-than-default values for some other settings.
(Note: before v12, max_wal_senders counted against max_connections
so that the latter setting also needs some fiddling with.)
Back-patch to v10 where the subscription tests were added.
It's likely that the older branches aren't pushing the boundaries
of max_wal_senders, but I'm disinclined to spend time trying to
figure out exactly when it started to be a problem.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/723911.1601417626@sss.pgh.pa.us
Explicitly mention that primary key constraints are also included in the
limitation that the constraint columns must be a superset of the partition key
columns.
Wording suggestion from Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/64062533.78364.1601415362244@mail.yahoo.com
Backpatch-through: 11, where unique constraints on partitioned tables were added
Previously we threw an error. But make_date already allowed the case,
so it is inconsistent as well as unhelpful for make_timestamp not to.
Both functions continue to reject year zero.
Code and test fixes by Peter Eisentraut, doc changes by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13c0992c-f15a-a0ca-d839-91d3efd965d9@2ndquadrant.com
When executing a CALL or DO in a non-atomic context (i.e., not inside
a function or query), plpgsql creates a new plan each time through,
as a rather hacky solution to some resource management issues. But
it failed to free this plan until exit of the current procedure or DO
block, resulting in serious memory bloat in procedures that called
other procedures many times. Fix by remembering to free the plan,
and by being more honest about restoring the previous state (otherwise,
recursive procedure calls have a problem).
There was also a smaller leak associated with recalculation of the
"target" list of output variables. Fix that by using the statement-
lifespan context to hold non-permanent values.
Back-patch to v11 where procedures were introduced.
Pavel Stehule and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDiiU1dqym+_P4_GuTWm76knJu7z9opWayBJTC0nQGUUA@mail.gmail.com
The SQL standard doesn't require jsonpath .datetime() method to support the
ISO 8601 format. But our to_json[b]() functions convert timestamps to text in
the ISO 8601 format in the sake of compatibility with javascript. So, we add
support of the ISO 8601 to the jsonpath .datetime() in the sake compatibility
with to_json[b]().
The standard mode of datetime parsing currently supports just template patterns
and separators in the format string. In order to implement ISO 8601, we have to
add support of the format string double quotes to the standard parsing mode.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/94321be0-cc96-1a81-b6df-796f437f7c66%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Nikita Glukhov, revised by me
Backpatch-through: 13
bffe1bd684 has introduced jsonpath .datetime() method, but default formats
for time and timestamp contain excess space between time and timezone. This
commit removes this excess space making behavior of .datetime() method
standard-compliant.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/94321be0-cc96-1a81-b6df-796f437f7c66%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Nikita Glukhov
Backpatch-through: 13
Previously the standby server didn't archive timeline history files
streamed from the primary even when archive_mode is set to "always",
while it archives the streamed WAL files. This could cause the PITR to
fail because there was no required timeline history file in the archive.
The cause of this issue was that walreceiver didn't mark those files as
ready for archiving.
This commit makes walreceiver mark those streamed timeline history
files as ready for archiving if archive_mode=always. Then the archiver
process archives the marked timeline history files.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: Grigory Smolkin
Author: Grigory Smolkin, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: David Zhang, Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/54b059d4-2b48-13a4-6f43-95a087c92367@postgrespro.ru
This addresses a couple of issues with the so-said subject:
- Report the correct parent relation with the index actually being
rebuilt or validated. Previously, the command status remained set to
the last index created for the progress of the index build and
validation, which would be incorrect when working on a table that has
more than one index.
- Use the correct phase when waiting before the drop of the old
indexes. Previously, this was reported with the same status as when
waiting before the old indexes are marked as dead.
Author: Matthias van de Meent, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WhqFgcwe1_tv=sFYhLWV2AdpfukumotJ6JNcAOQs3jufg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
We have a dozen or so places that need to iterate over all but the
first cell of a List. Prior to v13 this was typically written as
for_each_cell(lc, lnext(list_head(list)))
Commit 1cff1b95a changed these to
for_each_cell(lc, list, list_second_cell(list))
This patch introduces a new macro for_each_from() which expresses
the start point as a list index, allowing these to be written as
for_each_from(lc, list, 1)
This is marginally more efficient, since ForEachState.i can be
initialized directly instead of backing into it from a ListCell
address. It also seems clearer and less typo-prone.
Some of the remaining uses of for_each_cell() look like they could
profitably be changed to for_each_from(), but here I confined myself
to changing uses of list_second_cell().
Also, fix for_each_cell_setup() and for_both_cell_setup() to
const-ify their arguments; that's a simple oversight in 1cff1b95a.
Back-patch into v13, on the grounds that (1) the const-ification
is a minor bug fix, and (2) it's better for back-patching purposes
if we only have two ways to write these loops rather than three.
In HEAD, also remove list_third_cell() and list_fourth_cell(),
which were also introduced in 1cff1b95a, and are unused as of
cc99baa43. It seems unlikely that any third-party code would
have started to use them already; anyone who has can be directed
to list_nth_cell instead.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpo1zj9KhEpU2cCRZfSM3Q6XGdhzuAS2v79PH7WJBkYVA@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commit e21cbb4, as the switch to EVP routines requires a
more careful design where we would need to have at least our wrapper
routines return a status instead of issuing an error by themselves to
let the caller do the error handling. The memory handling was also
incorrect and could cause leaks in the backend if a failure happened,
requiring most likely a callback to do the necessary cleanup as the only
clean way to be able to allocate an EVP context requires the use of an
allocation within OpenSSL. The potential rework of the wrappers also
impacts the fallback implementation when not building with OpenSSL.
Originally, prairiedog has reported a compilation failure, but after
discussion with Tom Lane this needs a better design.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200928073330.GC2316@paquier.xyz
Adding \d+ to the test in commit 2dfa3fea8 was ill-advised,
because the partitions' names are such that their sort order
is locale dependent. We could rename them to avoid that,
but it doesn't seem worth the trouble; just take \d+ out again.
Per buildfarm.
transformPartitionBoundValue went out of its way to do the wrong
thing: there is no reason to complain about a non-matching COLLATE
clause in a partition boundary expression. We're coercing the
bound expression to the target column type as though by an
implicit assignment, and the rules for implicit assignment say
that collations can be implicitly converted.
What we *do* need to do, and the code is not doing, is apply
assign_expr_collations() to the bound expression. While this is
merely a definition disagreement, that is a bug that needs to be
back-patched, so I'll commit it separately.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJV4CdrZ5mKuaEsRSbLf2URQ3h6iMtKD=hik8MaF5WwdmC9uZw@mail.gmail.com
SQL operations such as CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, LOCALTIME, and
conversion of "now" in a datetime input string have to obtain the
transaction start timestamp ("now()") as a broken-down struct pg_tm.
This is a remarkably expensive conversion, and since now() does not
change intra-transaction, it doesn't really need to be done more than
once per transaction. Introducing a simple cache provides visible
speedups in queries that compute these values many times, for example
insertion of many rows that use a default value of CURRENT_DATE.
Peter Smith, with a bit of kibitzing by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Pu89TWjq530V2gY5O6SWi=OEJMQ_VHMt8bdZB_9JFna5A@mail.gmail.com
The use of low-level hash routines is not recommended by upstream
OpenSSL since 2000, and pgcrypto already switched to EVP as of 5ff4a67.
Note that this also fixes a failure with SCRAM authentication when using
FIPS in OpenSSL, but as there have been few complaints about this
problem and as this causes an ABI breakage, no backpatch is done.
Author: Michael Paquier, Alessandro Gherardi
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200924025314.GE7405@paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180911030250.GA27115@paquier.xyz
Prior to this commit, the linitial(), lsecond(), lthird(), lfourth()
macros and their int and Oid list cousins would call their corresponding
inlined function to fetch the cell of interest. Those inline functions
were kind enough to return NULL if the particular cell did not exist.
Unfortunately, the care that these functions took was of no relevance to
the calling macros as they proceeded to directly dereference the returned
value without any regard to whether that value was NULL or not. If it had
been, we'd have segfaulted.
Of course, the fact that we would have segfaulted on misuse of these
macros just goes to prove that nobody is relying on the empty or list too
small checks. So here we just get rid of those checks completely.
The existing inline functions have been left alone as someone may be using
those directly. We just replace the call within each macro to use
list_nth_cell().
For the llast*() case we require a new list_last_cell() inline function to
get away from the multiple evaluation hazard that we'd get if we fetched
->length on the macro's parameter.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpo1zj9KhEpU2cCRZfSM3Q6XGdhzuAS2v79PH7WJBkYVA@mail.gmail.com
Both tools never had safeguard checks for the options provided, and it
was possible to make pg_test_fsync run an infinite amount of time or
pass down buggy values to pg_test_timing.
These behaviors have existed for a long time, with no actual complaints,
so no backpatch is done. Basic TAP tests are introduced for both tools.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200806062759.GE16470@paquier.xyz
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
Magnus Hagander
Michael Paquier
Andres Freund
Fujii Masao
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Heikki Linnakangas
Alvaro Herrera
David Rowley
Alexander Korotkov