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Tom Lane eae0e20def Remove over-optimistic Assert.
In commit 2489d76c4, I'd thought it'd be safe to assert that a
PlaceHolderVar appearing in a scan-level expression has empty
nullingrels.  However this is not so, as when we determine that a
join relation is certainly empty we'll put its targetlist into a
Result-with-constant-false-qual node, and nothing is done to adjust
the nullingrels of the Vars or PHVs therein.  (Arguably, a Result
used in this way isn't really a scan-level node, but it certainly
isn't an upper node either ...)

It's not clear this is worth any close analysis, so let's just
take out the faulty Assert.

Per report from Robins Tharakan.  I added a test case based on
his example, just in case somebody tries to tighten this up.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEP4nAz7Enq3+DEthGG7j27DpuwSRZnW0Nh6jtNh75yErQ_nbA@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-31 11:57:47 -05:00
Tom Lane 3bef56e116 Invent "join domains" to replace the below_outer_join hack.
EquivalenceClasses are now understood as applying within a "join
domain", which is a set of inner-joined relations (possibly underneath
an outer join).  We no longer need to treat an EC from below an outer
join as a second-class citizen.

I have hopes of eventually being able to treat outer-join clauses via
EquivalenceClasses, by means of only applying deductions within the
EC's join domain.  There are still problems in the way of that, though,
so for now the reconsider_outer_join_clause logic is still here.

I haven't been able to get rid of RestrictInfo.is_pushed_down either,
but I wonder if that could be recast using JoinDomains.

I had to hack one test case in postgres_fdw.sql to make it still test
what it was meant to, because postgres_fdw is inconsistent about
how it deals with quals containing non-shippable expressions; see
https://postgr.es/m/1691374.1671659838@sss.pgh.pa.us.  That should
be improved, but I don't think it's within the scope of this patch
series.

Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-30 13:50:25 -05:00
Tom Lane b448f1c8d8 Do assorted mop-up in the planner.
Remove RestrictInfo.nullable_relids, along with a good deal of
infrastructure that calculated it.  One use-case for it was in
join_clause_is_movable_to, but we can now replace that usage with
a check to see if the clause's relids include any outer join
that can null the target relation.  The other use-case was in
join_clause_is_movable_into, but that test can just be dropped
entirely now that the clause's relids include outer joins.
Furthermore, join_clause_is_movable_into should now be
accurate enough that it will accept anything returned by
generate_join_implied_equalities, so we can restore the Assert
that was diked out in commit 95f4e59c3.

Remove the outerjoin_delayed mechanism.  We needed this before to
prevent quals from getting evaluated below outer joins that should
null some of their vars.  Now that we consider varnullingrels while
placing quals, that's taken care of automatically, so throw the
whole thing away.

Teach remove_useless_result_rtes to also remove useless FromExprs.
Having done that, the delay_upper_joins flag serves no purpose any
more and we can remove it, largely reverting 11086f2f2.

Use constant TRUE for "dummy" clauses when throwing back outer joins.
This improves on a hack I introduced in commit 6a6522529.  If we
have a left-join clause l.x = r.y, and a WHERE clause l.x = constant,
we generate r.y = constant and then don't really have a need for the
join clause.  But we must throw the join clause back anyway after
marking it redundant, so that the join search heuristics won't think
this is a clauseless join and avoid it.  That was a kluge introduced
under time pressure, and after looking at it I thought of a better
way: let's just introduce constant-TRUE "join clauses" instead,
and get rid of them at the end.  This improves the generated plans for
such cases by not having to test a redundant join clause.  We can also
get rid of the ugly hack used to mark such clauses as redundant for
selectivity estimation.

Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-30 13:44:36 -05:00
Tom Lane 2489d76c49 Make Vars be outer-join-aware.
Traditionally we used the same Var struct to represent the value
of a table column everywhere in parse and plan trees.  This choice
predates our support for SQL outer joins, and it's really a pretty
bad idea with outer joins, because the Var's value can depend on
where it is in the tree: it might go to NULL above an outer join.
So expression nodes that are equal() per equalfuncs.c might not
represent the same value, which is a huge correctness hazard for
the planner.

To improve this, decorate Var nodes with a bitmapset showing
which outer joins (identified by RTE indexes) may have nulled
them at the point in the parse tree where the Var appears.
This allows us to trust that equal() Vars represent the same value.
A certain amount of klugery is still needed to cope with cases
where we re-order two outer joins, but it's possible to make it
work without sacrificing that core principle.  PlaceHolderVars
receive similar decoration for the same reason.

In the planner, we include these outer join bitmapsets into the relids
that an expression is considered to depend on, and in consequence also
add outer-join relids to the relids of join RelOptInfos.  This allows
us to correctly perceive whether an expression can be calculated above
or below a particular outer join.

This change affects FDWs that want to plan foreign joins.  They *must*
follow suit when labeling foreign joins in order to match with the
core planner, but for many purposes (if postgres_fdw is any guide)
they'd prefer to consider only base relations within the join.
To support both requirements, redefine ForeignScan.fs_relids as
base+OJ relids, and add a new field fs_base_relids that's set up by
the core planner.

Large though it is, this commit just does the minimum necessary to
install the new mechanisms and get check-world passing again.
Follow-up patches will perform some cleanup.  (The README additions
and comments mention some stuff that will appear in the follow-up.)

Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-30 13:16:20 -05:00
David Rowley 16fd03e956 Allow parallel aggregate on string_agg and array_agg
This adds combine, serial and deserial functions for the array_agg() and
string_agg() aggregate functions, thus allowing these aggregates to
partake in partial aggregations.  This allows both parallel aggregation to
take place when these aggregates are present and also allows additional
partition-wise aggregation plan shapes to include plans that require
additional aggregation once the partially aggregated results from the
partitions have been combined.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, Stephen Frost, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9sx_6GTcvd6TMuZnNtCh0VhBzhX6FZqw17TgVFH-ga_A@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-23 17:35:01 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera 438e6b7240
Remove some dead code in selfuncs.c
RelOptInfo.userid is the same for all relations in a given inheritance
tree, so the code in examine_variable() and example_simple_variable()
that repeats the ACL checks on the root parent rel instead of a given
leaf child relations need not recompute userid too.

Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221210201753.GA27893@telsasoft.com
2023-01-19 12:54:15 +01:00
Tom Lane 47bb9db759 Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.
The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions
that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE.  Historically it's put such entries
into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite
vestigial.  The only thing we've used them for is to carry the
view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can
re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan)
and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time
permissions checks.  What we can do instead of that is to retain
these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we
convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE.  This requires a tiny amount of
extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on
the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from
one place to another.

The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small
saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs
no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable
names when the rangetable's length is more than 1.  That results
in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs,
which are all to the good IMO.

Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of
RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs.  While those will always be zeroes anyway in
stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite)
they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make
sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel
workers.  I don't think the executor actually examines these fields
after startup, but someday it might.

This is a second attempt at committing 1b4d280ea.  The difference
from the first time is that now we can add some filtering rules to
AdjustUpgrade.pm to allow cross-version upgrade testing to pass
despite all the cosmetic changes in CREATE VIEW outputs.

Amit Langote (filtering rules by me)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/891521.1673657296@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-18 13:23:57 -05:00
Tom Lane 8d83a5d0a2 Remove redundant grouping and DISTINCT columns.
Avoid explicitly grouping by columns that we know are redundant
for sorting, for example we need group by only one of x and y in
	SELECT ... WHERE x = y GROUP BY x, y
This comes up more often than you might think, as shown by the
changes in the regression tests.  It's nearly free to detect too,
since we are just piggybacking on the existing logic that detects
redundant pathkeys.  (In some of the existing plans that change,
it's visible that a sort step preceding the grouping step already
didn't bother to sort by the redundant column, making the old plan
a bit silly-looking.)

To do this, build processed_groupClause and processed_distinctClause
lists that omit any provably-redundant sort items, and consult those
not the originals where relevant.  This means that within the
planner, one should usually consult root->processed_groupClause or
root->processed_distinctClause if one wants to know which columns
are to be grouped on; but to check whether grouping or distinct-ing
is happening at all, check non-NIL-ness of parse->groupClause or
parse->distinctClause.  This is comparable to longstanding rules
about handling the HAVING clause, so I don't think it'll be a huge
maintenance problem.

nodeAgg.c also needs minor mods, because it's now possible to generate
AGG_PLAIN and AGG_SORTED Agg nodes with zero grouping columns.

Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo and David Rowley for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/185315.1672179489@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-18 12:37:57 -05:00
David Rowley da5800d5fa Don't presort ORDER BY/DISTINCT Aggrefs with volatile functions
In 1349d2790, we gave the planner the ability to provide ORDER BY/DISTINCT
Aggrefs with presorted input so that nodeAgg would not have to perform
sorts during execution.  That commit failed to properly consider the
implications of if the Aggref had a volatile function in its ORDER
BY/DISTINCT clause.  As it happened, this resulted in an ERROR about the
volatile function being missing from the targetlist.

Here, instead of adding the volatile function to the targetlist, we just
never consider an Aggref with a volatile function in its ORDER BY/DISTINCT
clause when choosing which Aggrefs we should sort by.  We do this as if we
were to choose a plan which provided these aggregates with presorted
input, then if there were many such aggregates which could all share the
same sort order, then it may be surprising if they all shared the same
sort sometimes and didn't at other times when some other set of aggregates
were given presorted results.  We can avoid this inconsistency by just
never providing these volatile function aggregates with presorted input.

Reported-by: Dean Rasheed
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWETioXs5kY8vT6BVguY41_wD962VDk=u_Nvd7S1UXzuQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-17 16:37:06 +13:00
Tom Lane f0e6d6d3c9 Revert "Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable."
This reverts commit 1b4d280ea1.
It's broken the buildfarm members that run cross-version-upgrade tests,
because they're not prepared to deal with cosmetic differences between
CREATE VIEW commands emitted by older servers and HEAD.  Even if we had
a solution to that, which we don't, it'd take some time to roll it out
to the affected animals.  This improvement isn't valuable enough to
justify addressing that problem on an emergency basis, so revert it
for now.
2023-01-11 23:01:22 -05:00
Tom Lane 1b4d280ea1 Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.
The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions
that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE.  Historically it's put such entries
into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite
vestigial.  The only thing we've used them for is to carry the
view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can
re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan)
and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time
permissions checks.  What we can do instead of that is to retain
these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we
convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE.  This requires a tiny amount of
extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on
the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from
one place to another.

The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small
saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs
no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable
names when the rangetable's length is more than 1.  That results
in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs,
which are all to the good IMO.

Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of
RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs.  While those will always be zeroes anyway in
stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite)
they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make
sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel
workers.  I don't think the executor actually examines these fields
after startup, but someday it might.

Amit Langote

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-11 19:41:09 -05:00
David Rowley 3c6fc58209 Have the planner consider Incremental Sort for DISTINCT
Prior to this, we only considered a full sort on the cheapest input path
and uniquifying any path which was already sorted in the required sort
order.  Here we adjust create_final_distinct_paths() so that it also
adds an Incremental Sort path on any path which has presorted keys.

Additionally, this adjusts the parallel distinct code so that we now
consider sorting the cheapest partial path and incrementally sorting any
partial paths with presorted keys.  Previously we didn't consider any
sorting for parallel distinct and only added a unique path atop any path
which had the required pathkeys already.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvo8Lz2H=42urBbfP65LTcEUOh288MT7DsG2_EWtW1AXHQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-11 10:25:43 +13:00
David Rowley 3c569049b7 Allow left join removals and unique joins on partitioned tables
This allows left join removals and unique joins to work with partitioned
tables.  The planner just lacked sufficient proofs that a given join
would not cause any row duplication.  Unique indexes currently serve as
that proof, so have get_relation_info() populate the indexlist for
partitioned tables too.

Author: Arne Roland
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Zhihong Yu, Amit Langote, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c3b2408b7a39433b8230bbcd02e9f302@index.de
2023-01-09 17:15:08 +13:00
David Rowley a14a583292 Add additional regression tests for select_active_windows
During the development of 728202b63, which was aimed at reducing the
number of sorts required to evaluate multiple window functions with
different WindowClause definitions, the code written sorted the
WindowClauses in reverse tleSortGroupRef order.  There appears to be no
discussion in the thread which was opened to discuss the development of
this patch and no comments mentioning the fact that having the
WindowClauses in reverse tleSortGroupRef order makes it more likely that
the final WindowClause to be evaluated will provide presorted input to
the query's DISTINCT or ORDER BY clause.  The reason for this is that the
tleSortGroupRef indexes are assigned for the DISTINCT and ORDER BY clauses
before they are for the WindowClauses PARTITION BY and ORDER BY clauses.
Putting the WindowClause with the lowest tleSortGroupRef last means that
it's more likely that no additional sorting is required for the query's
DISTINCT or ORDER BY clause.

All we're doing here is adding some tests and a comment to help ensure
that remains true and that we don't accidentally forget to consider this
again should we ever rewrite that code.

Author: Ankit Kumar Pandey, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq=g2=ny59f1bvwRVvupsgPHK-KjLPBsSL25fVuGZ4idQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-07 15:24:35 +13:00
Tom Lane 3f7836ff65 Fix calculation of which GENERATED columns need to be updated.
We were identifying the updatable generated columns of inheritance
children by transposing the calculation made for their parent.
However, there's nothing that says a traditional-inheritance child
can't have generated columns that aren't there in its parent, or that
have different dependencies than are in the parent's expression.
(At present it seems that we don't enforce that for partitioning
either, which is likely wrong to some degree or other; but the case
clearly needs to be handled with traditional inheritance.)

Hence, drop the very-klugy-anyway "extraUpdatedCols" RTE field
in favor of identifying which generated columns depend on updated
columns during executor startup.  In HEAD we can remove
extraUpdatedCols altogether; in back branches, it's still there but
always empty.  Another difference between the HEAD and back-branch
versions of this patch is that in HEAD we can add the new bitmap field
to ResultRelInfo, but that would cause an ABI break in back branches.
Like 4b3e37993, add a List field at the end of struct EState instead.

Back-patch to v13.  The bogus calculation is also being made in v12,
but it doesn't have the same visible effect because we don't use it
to decide which generated columns to recalculate; as a consequence of
which the patch doesn't apply easily.  I think that there might still
be a demonstrable bug associated with trigger firing conditions, but
that's such a weird corner-case usage that I'm content to leave it
unfixed in v12.

Amit Langote and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFshLKNvQUd1DgwJ-7tsTp=dwv7KZqXC4j2wYBV1aCDUA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2793383.1672944799@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-05 14:12:17 -05:00
Michael Paquier 33ab0a2a52 Fix typos in comments, code and documentation
While on it, newlines are removed from the end of two elog() strings.
The others are simple grammar mistakes.  One comment in pg_upgrade
referred incorrectly to sequences since a7e5457.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221230231257.GI1153@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-01-03 16:26:14 +09:00
Bruce Momjian c8e1ba736b Update copyright for 2023
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
David Rowley bbfdf7180d Fix bug in translate_col_privs_multilevel
Fix incorrect code which was trying to convert a Bitmapset of columns at
the attnums according to a parent table and transform them into the
equivalent Bitmapset with same attnums according to the given child table.
This code is new as of a61b1f748 and was failing to do the correct
translation when there was an intermediate parent table between 'rel' and
'top_parent_rel'.

Reported-by: Ranier Vilela
Author: Richard Guo, Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQArohfB_Gy%2BhcH2-bANUkxgjJiP%3DABq01_LgTNTbcNijag%40mail.gmail.com
2022-12-24 00:58:34 +13:00
David Rowley ed1a88ddac Allow window functions to adjust their frameOptions
WindowFuncs such as row_number() don't care if it's called with ROWS
UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW or with RANGE UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND
CURRENT ROW.  The latter is less efficient as the RANGE option requires
that the executor check for peer rows, so using the ROW option instead
would cause less overhead.  Because RANGE is part of the default frame
options for WindowClauses, it means WindowAgg is, by default, working much
harder than it needs to for window functions where the ROWS / RANGE option
has no effect on the window function's result.

On a test query from the discussion thread, a performance improvement of
344% was seen by using ROWS instead of RANGE.

Here we add a new support function node type to allow support functions to
be called for window functions so that the most optimal version of the
frame options can be set.  The planner has been adjusted so that the frame
options are changed only if all window functions sharing the same window
clause agree on what the optimized frame options are.

Here we give the ability for row_number(), rank(), dense_rank(),
percent_rank(), cume_dist() and ntile() to alter their WindowClause's
frameOptions.

Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing, Erwin Brandstetter, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ7LBBszxS+SkWWFVnBmOT2oVsBhDMB1DFrgerCeYa_DyA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvohAKEtTXxq7Pc-ic2dKT8oZfbRKeEJP64M0B6+S88z+A@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-23 12:43:52 +13:00
Tom Lane e42e312430 Avoid O(N^2) cost when pulling up lots of UNION ALL subqueries.
perform_pullup_replace_vars() knows how to scan the whole parent
query tree when we are replacing Vars during a subquery flattening
operation.  However, for the specific case of flattening a
UNION ALL leaf query, that's mostly wasted work: the only place
where relevant Vars could exist is in the AppendRelInfo that we
just made for this leaf.  Teaching perform_pullup_replace_vars()
to just deal with that and exit is worthwhile because, if we have
N such subqueries to pull up, we were spending O(N^2) work uselessly
mutating the AppendRelInfos for all the other subqueries.

While we're at it, avoid calling substitute_phv_relids if there are no
PlaceHolderVars, and remove an obsolete check of parse->hasSubLinks.

Andrey Lepikhov and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/703c09a2-08f3-d2ec-b33d-dbecd62428b8@postgrespro.ru
2022-12-22 11:02:03 -05:00
Tom Lane 5beb7881fb Add some recursion and looping defenses in prepjointree.c.
Andrey Lepikhov demonstrated a case where we spend an unreasonable
amount of time in pull_up_subqueries().  Not only is that recursing
with no explicit check for stack overrun, but the code seems not
interruptable by control-C.  Let's stick a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS
there, along with sprinkling some stack depth checks.

An actual fix for the excessive time consumption seems a bit
risky to back-patch; but this isn't, so let's do so.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/703c09a2-08f3-d2ec-b33d-dbecd62428b8@postgrespro.ru
2022-12-22 10:35:02 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 8284cf5f74 Add copyright notices to meson files
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/222b43a5-2fb3-2c1b-9cd0-375d376c8246@dunslane.net
2022-12-20 07:54:39 -05:00
David Rowley 3226f47282 Add enable_presorted_aggregate GUC
1349d279 added query planner support to allow more efficient execution of
aggregate functions which have an ORDER BY or a DISTINCT clause.  Prior to
that commit, the planner would only request that the lower planner produce
a plan with the order required for the GROUP BY clause and it would be
left up to nodeAgg.c to perform the final sort of records within each
group so that the aggregate transition functions were called in the
correct order.  Now that the planner requests the lower planner produce a
plan with the GROUP BY and the ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates in mind,
there is the possibility that the planner chooses a plan which could be
less efficient than what would have been produced before 1349d279.

While developing 1349d279, I had in mind that Incremental Sort would help
us in cases where an index exists only on the GROUP BY column(s).
Incremental Sort would just replace the implicit tuplesorts which are
being performed in nodeAgg.c.  However, because the planner has the
flexibility to instead choose a plan which just performs a full sort on
both the GROUP BY and ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregate columns, there is
potential for the planner to make a bad choice.  The costing for
Incremental Sort is not perfect as it assumes an even distribution of rows
to sort within each sort group.

Here we add an escape hatch in the form of the enable_presorted_aggregate
GUC.  This will allow users to get the pre-PG16 behavior in cases where
they have no other means to convince the query planner to produce a plan
which only sorts on the GROUP BY column(s).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvr1Sm+g9hbv4REOVuvQKeDWXcKUAhmbK5K+dfun0s9CvA@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-20 22:28:58 +13:00
David Rowley 4a29eabd1d Remove pessimistic cost penalization from Incremental Sort
When incremental sorts were added in v13 a 1.5x pessimism factor was added
to the cost modal.  Seemingly this was done because the cost modal only
has an estimate of the total number of input rows and the number of
presorted groups.  It assumes that the input rows will be evenly
distributed throughout the presorted groups.  The 1.5x pessimism factor
was added to slightly reduce the likelihood of incremental sorts being
used in the hope to avoid performance regressions where an incremental
sort plan was picked and turned out slower due to a large skew in the
number of rows in the presorted groups.

An additional quirk with the path generation code meant that we could
consider both a sort and an incremental sort on paths with presorted keys.
This meant that with the pessimism factor, it was possible that we opted
to perform a sort rather than an incremental sort when the given path had
presorted keys.

Here we remove the 1.5x pessimism factor to allow incremental sorts to
have a fairer chance at being chosen against a full sort.

Previously we would generally create a sort path on the cheapest input
path (if that wasn't sorted already) and incremental sort paths on any
path which had presorted keys.  This meant that if the cheapest input path
wasn't completely sorted but happened to have presorted keys, we would
create a full sort path *and* an incremental sort path on that input path.
Here we change this logic so that if there are presorted keys, we only
create an incremental sort path, and create sort paths only when a full
sort is required.

Both the removal of the cost pessimism factor and the changes made to the
path generation make it more likely that incremental sorts will now be
chosen.  That, of course, as with teaching the planner any new tricks,
means an increased likelihood that the planner will perform an incremental
sort when it's not the best method.  Our standard escape hatch for these
cases is an enable_* GUC.  enable_incremental_sort already exists for
this.

This came out of a report by Pavel Luzanov where he mentioned that the
master branch was choosing to perform a Seq Scan -> Sort -> Group
Aggregate for his query with an ORDER BY aggregate function.  The v15 plan
for his query performed an Index Scan -> Group Aggregate, of course, the
aggregate performed the final sort internally in nodeAgg.c for the
aggregate's ORDER BY.  The ideal plan would have been to use the index,
which provided partially sorted input then use an incremental sort to
provide the aggregate with the sorted input.  This was not being chosen
due to the pessimism in the incremental sort cost modal, so here we remove
that and rationalize the path generation so that sort and incremental sort
plans don't have to needlessly compete.  We assume that it's senseless
to ever use a full sort on a given input path where an incremental sort
can be performed.

Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9f61ddbf-2989-1536-b31e-6459370a6baa%40postgrespro.ru
2022-12-16 15:22:23 +13:00
David Rowley 94985c2102 Add subquery pullup handling for WindowClause runCondition
9d9c02ccd added code to allow WindowAgg to take some shortcuts when a
monotonic WindowFunc reached some value that it could never come back
from due to the function's monotonic nature.  That commit added a
runCondition field to WindowClause to store the condition which, when it
becomes false we can start taking shortcuts in nodeWindowAgg.c.

Here we fix an issue where subquery pullups didn't properly update the
runCondition to update the Vars to properly reference the new query level.

Here we also add a missing call to preprocess_expression() for the
WindowClause's runCondtion.  The WindowFuncs in the targetlist will have
had this process done, so we must also do it for the WindowFuncs in the
runCondition so that they can be correctly found in the targetlist
during setrefs.c

Bug: #17709
Reported-by: Alexey Makhmutov
Author: Richard Guo, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17709-4f557160e3e8ee9a@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 15, where 9d9c02ccd was introduced
2022-12-10 19:27:20 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera a61b1f7482
Rework query relation permission checking
Currently, information about the permissions to be checked on relations
mentioned in a query is stored in their range table entries.  So the
executor must scan the entire range table looking for relations that
need to have permissions checked.  This can make the permission checking
part of the executor initialization needlessly expensive when many
inheritance children are present in the range range.  While the
permissions need not be checked on the individual child relations, the
executor still must visit every range table entry to filter them out.

This commit moves the permission checking information out of the range
table entries into a new plan node called RTEPermissionInfo.  Every
top-level (inheritance "root") RTE_RELATION entry in the range table
gets one and a list of those is maintained alongside the range table.
This new list is initialized by the parser when initializing the range
table.  The rewriter can add more entries to it as rules/views are
expanded.  Finally, the planner combines the lists of the individual
subqueries into one flat list that is passed to the executor for
checking.

To make it quick to find the RTEPermissionInfo entry belonging to a
given relation, RangeTblEntry gets a new Index field 'perminfoindex'
that stores the corresponding RTEPermissionInfo's index in the query's
list of the latter.

ExecutorCheckPerms_hook has gained another List * argument; the
signature is now:
typedef bool (*ExecutorCheckPerms_hook_type) (List *rangeTable,
					      List *rtePermInfos,
					      bool ereport_on_violation);
The first argument is no longer used by any in-core uses of the hook,
but we leave it in place because there may be other implementations that
do.  Implementations should likely scan the rtePermInfos list to
determine which operations to allow or deny.

Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGjJDmUhDSfv-U2qhKJjt9ST7Xh9JXC_irsAQ1TAUsJYg@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-06 16:09:24 +01:00
David Rowley a858327221 Fix 32-bit build dangling pointer issue in WindowAgg
9d9c02ccd added window "run conditions", which allows the evaluation of
monotonic window functions to be skipped when the run condition is no
longer true.  Prior to this commit, once the run condition was no longer
true and we stopped evaluating the window functions, we simply just left
the ecxt_aggvalues[] and ecxt_aggnulls[] arrays alone to store whatever
value was stored there the last time the window function was evaluated.
Leaving a stale value in there isn't really a problem on 64-bit builds as
all of the window functions which we recognize as monotonic all return
int8, which is passed by value on 64-bit builds.  However, on 32-bit
builds, this was a problem as the value stored in the ecxt_values[]
element would be a by-ref value and it would be pointing to some memory
which would get reset once the tuple context is destroyed.  Since the
WindowAgg node will output these values in the resulting tupleslot, this
could be problematic for the top-level WindowAgg node which must look at
these values to filter out the rows that don't meet its filter condition.

Here we fix this by just zeroing the ecxt_aggvalues[] and setting the
ecxt_aggnulls[] array to true when the run condition first becomes false.
This results in the WindowAgg's output having NULLs for the WindowFunc's
columns rather than the stale or pointer pointing to possibly freed
memory.  These tuples with the NULLs can only make it as far as the
top-level WindowAgg node before they're filtered out.  To ensure that
these tuples *are* always filtered out, we now insist that OpExprs making
up the run condition are strict OpExprs.  Currently, all the window
functions which the planner recognizes as monotonic return INT8 and the
operator which is used for the run condition must be a member of a btree
opclass.  In reality, these restrictions exclude nothing that's built-in
to Postgres and are unlikely to exclude anyone's custom operators due to
the requirement that the operator is part of a btree opclass.  It would be
unusual if those were not strict.

Reported-by: Sergey Shinderuk, using valgrind
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo, Sergey Shinderuk
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29184c50-429a-ebd7-f1fb-0589c6723a35@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15, where 9d9c02ccd was added
2022-12-07 00:09:36 +13:00
Tom Lane d69d01ba9d Fix Memoize to work with partitionwise joining.
A couple of places weren't up to speed for this.  By sheer good
luck, we didn't fail but just selected a non-memoized join plan,
at least in the test case we have.  Nonetheless, it's a bug,
and I'm not quite sure that it couldn't have worse consequences
in other examples.  So back-patch to v14 where Memoize came in.

Richard Guo

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48GkNom272sfp0-WeD6_0HSR19BJ4H1c9ZKSfbVnJsvRg@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-05 12:36:40 -05:00
Tom Lane 92c4dafe1e Re-pgindent a few files.
Just because I'm a neatnik, and I'm currently working on
code in this area.  It annoys me to not be able to pgindent
my patches without working around unrelated changes.
2022-12-04 14:25:53 -05:00
Tom Lane e76913802c Fix broken MemoizePath support in reparameterize_path().
It neglected to recurse to the subpath, meaning you'd get back
a path identical to the input.  This could produce wrong query
results if the omission meant that the subpath fails to enforce
some join clause it should be enforcing.  We don't have a test
case for this at the moment, but the code is obviously broken
and the fix is equally obvious.  Back-patch to v14 where
Memoize was introduced.

Richard Guo

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4_R=ORpz=Lkn2q3ebPC5EuWyfZF+tmfCPVLBVK5W39mHA@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-04 13:48:12 -05:00
Tom Lane 6eb2f0ed4c Add missing MaterialPath support in reparameterize_path[_by_child].
These two functions failed to cover MaterialPath.  That's not a
fatal problem, but we can generate better plans in some cases
if we support it.

Tom Lane and Richard Guo

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1854233.1669949723@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-12-04 13:35:42 -05:00
Tom Lane fe12f2f8fa Fix generate_partitionwise_join_paths() to tolerate failure.
We might fail to generate a partitionwise join, because
reparameterize_path_by_child() does not support all path types.
This should not be a hard failure condition: we should just fall back
to a non-partitioned join.  However, generate_partitionwise_join_paths
did not consider this possibility and would emit the (misleading)
error "could not devise a query plan for the given query" if we'd
failed to make any paths for a child join.  Fix it to give up on
partitionwise joining if so.  (The accepted technique for giving up
appears to be to set rel->nparts = 0, which I find pretty bizarre,
but there you have it.)

I have not added a test case because there'd be little point:
any omissions of this sort that we identify would soon get fixed
by extending reparameterize_path_by_child(), so the test would stop
proving anything.  However, right now there is a known test case based
on failure to cover MaterialPath, and with that I've found that this
is broken in all supported versions.  Hence, patch all the way back.

Original report and patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for
identifying a test case that works against committed versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1854233.1669949723@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-12-04 13:17:18 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera ec38694894
Move PartitioPruneInfo out of plan nodes into PlannedStmt
The planner will now add a given PartitioPruneInfo to
PlannedStmt.partPruneInfos instead of directly to the
Append/MergeAppend plan node.  What gets set instead in the
latter is an index field which points to the list element
of PlannedStmt.partPruneInfos containing the PartitioPruneInfo
belonging to the plan node.

A later commit will make AcquireExecutorLocks() do the initial
partition pruning to determine a minimal set of partitions to be
locked when validating a plan tree and it will need to consult the
PartitioPruneInfos referenced therein to do so.  It would be better
for the PartitioPruneInfos to be accessible directly than requiring
a walk of the plan tree to find them, which is easier when it can be
done by simply iterating over PlannedStmt.partPruneInfos.

Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFGkMSge6TgC9KQzde0ohpAycLQuV7ooitEEpbKB0O_mg@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-01 12:56:21 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera 599b33b949
Stop accessing checkAsUser via RTE in some cases
A future commit will move the checkAsUser field from RangeTblEntry
to a new node that, unlike RTEs, will only be created for tables
mentioned in the query but not for the inheritance child relations
added to the query by the planner.  So, checkAsUser value for a
given child relation will have to be obtained by referring to that
for its ancestor mentioned in the query.

In preparation, it seems better to expand the use of RelOptInfo.userid
during planning in place of rte->checkAsUser so that there will be
fewer places to adjust for the above change.

Given that the child-to-ancestor mapping is not available during the
execution of a given "child" ForeignScan node, add a checkAsUser
field to ForeignScan to carry the child relation's RelOptInfo.userid.

Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGFCs2uq7VRKi7g+FFKbP6Ea_2_HkgZb2HPhUfaAKT3ng@mail.gmail.com
2022-11-30 12:07:03 +01:00
Tom Lane 51dfaa0b01 Remove bogus Assert and dead code in remove_useless_results_recurse().
The JOIN_SEMI case Assert'ed that there are no PlaceHolderVars that
need to be evaluated at the semijoin's RHS, which is wrong because
there could be some in the semijoin's qual condition.  However, there
could not be any references further up than that, and within the qual
there is not any way that such a PHV could have gone to null yet, so
we don't really need the PHV and there is no need to avoid making the
RHS-removal optimization.  The upshot is that there's no actual bug
in production code, and we ought to just remove this misguided Assert.

While we're here, also drop the JOIN_RIGHT case, which is dead code
because reduce_outer_joins() already got rid of JOIN_RIGHT.

Per bug #17700 from Xin Wen.  Uselessness of the JOIN_RIGHT case
pointed out by Richard Guo.  Back-patch to v12 where this code
was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17700-2b5c10d917c30687@postgresql.org
2022-11-29 10:52:44 -05:00
Michael Paquier f193883fc9 Replace SQLValueFunction by COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX
This switch impacts 9 patterns related to a SQL-mandated special syntax
for function calls:
- LOCALTIME [ ( typmod ) ]
- LOCALTIMESTAMP [ ( typmod ) ]
- CURRENT_TIME [ ( typmod ) ]
- CURRENT_TIMESTAMP [ ( typmod ) ]
- CURRENT_DATE

Five new entries are added to pg_proc to compensate the removal of
SQLValueFunction to provide backward-compatibility and making this
change transparent for the end-user (for example for the attribute
generated when a keyword is specified in a SELECT or in a FROM clause
without an alias, or when specifying something else than an Iconst to
the parser).

The parser included a set of checks coming from the files in charge of
holding the C functions used for the SQLValueFunction calls (as of
transformSQLValueFunction()), which are now moved within each function's
execution path, so this reduces the dependencies between the execution
and the parsing steps.  As of this change, all the SQL keywords use the
same paths for their work, relying only on COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX.  Like
fb32748, no performance difference has been noticed, while the perf
profiles get reduced with ExecEvalSQLValueFunction() gone.

Bump catalog version.

Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker, Ted Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YzaG3MoryCguUOym@paquier.xyz
2022-11-21 18:31:59 +09:00
Tom Lane e9e26b5e71 Invent "multibitmapsets", and use them to speed up antijoin detection.
Implement a data structure that is a List of Bitmapsets, which is
essentially a 2-D boolean array except that the rows need not all
be the same width.  Operations such as union and intersection are
meaningful for these, just as they are for Bitmapsets.  Eventually
we might build many of the same operations that we have written for
Bitmapsets, but for the first use-case we just need a few.

That first use-case is for antijoin detection: reduce_outer_joins
needs to find the set of Vars that are certain to be non-null in a
successfully joined (not null-extended) left join row, and also
find the set of Vars subject to higher-level IS NULL constraints,
and intersect them.  We had been doing this by making Lists of
the Var nodes and then using list_intersect, which works but is
pretty inefficient compared to a bitmapset-like intersection.
Potentially it's O(N^2) if there are a lot of Vars involved,
which fortunately there generally aren't; still it's not great.
Moreover, that method requires the Vars of interest to be exactly
equal() in the join condition and the upper IS NULL condition,
which is problematic for my WIP patch that labels Vars according
to which outer joins have possibly nulled them.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/892228.1668437838@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-mvPPCJ1W6iK6dD5HiNwoJdi6mZp=-7mE8N9Sh+cd0tQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-11-16 13:58:44 -05:00
Tom Lane 5e1f3b9ebf Make Bitmapsets be valid Nodes.
Add a NodeTag field to struct Bitmapset.  This is free because of
alignment considerations on 64-bit hardware.  While it adds some
space on 32-bit machines, we aren't optimizing for that case anymore.
The advantage is that data structures such as Lists of Bitmapsets
are now first-class objects to the Node infrastructure, and don't
require special-case code to handle.

This patch includes removal of one such special case, in indxpath.c:
bms_equal_any() can now be replaced by list_member().  There may be
more existing code that could be simplified, but I didn't look very
hard.  We also get to drop the read_write_ignore annotations on a
couple of RelOptInfo fields.

The outfuncs/readfuncs support is arranged so that nothing changes
in the string representation of a Bitmapset field; therefore, this
doesn't need a catversion bump.

Amit Langote and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/109089.1668197158@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-11-13 10:22:45 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut c727f511bd Refactor aclcheck functions
Instead of dozens of mostly-duplicate pg_foo_aclcheck() functions,
write one common function object_aclcheck() that can handle almost all
of them.  We already have all the information we need, such as which
system catalog corresponds to which catalog table and which column is
the ACL column.

There are a few pg_foo_aclcheck() that don't work via the generic
function and have special APIs, so those stay as is.

I also changed most pg_foo_aclmask() functions to static functions,
since they are not used outside of aclchk.c.

Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/95c30f96-4060-2f48-98b5-a4392d3b6066@enterprisedb.com
2022-11-13 09:02:41 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut b4b7ce8061 Add repalloc0 and repalloc0_array
These zero out the space added by repalloc.  This is a common pattern
that is quite hairy to code by hand.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b66dfc89-9365-cb57-4e1f-b7d31813eeec@enterprisedb.com
2022-11-12 20:34:44 +01:00
Tom Lane 042c9091f0 Produce more-optimal plans for bitmap scans on boolean columns.
The planner simplifies boolean comparisons such as "x = true" and
"x = false" down to "x" and "NOT x" respectively, to have a canonical
form to ease comparisons.  However, if we want to use an index on x,
the index AM APIs require us to reconstitute the comparison-operator
form of the indexqual.  While that works, in bitmap indexscans the
canonical form of the qual was emitted as a "filter" condition
although it really only needs to be a "recheck" condition, because
create_bitmap_scan_plan didn't recognize the equivalence of that
form with the generated indexqual.  booleq() is pretty cheap so that
likely doesn't make very much difference, but it's unsightly so
let's clean it up.

To fix, add a case to predicate_implied_by() to recognize the
equivalence of such clauses.  This is a relatively low-cost place to
add a check, and perhaps it will have additional use cases in future.

Richard Guo and Tom Lane, per discussion of bug #17618 from Sindy
Senorita.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17618-7a2240bfaa7e84ae@postgresql.org
2022-11-08 10:36:04 -05:00
Tom Lane b0b72c64a0 Don't pass down nonnullable_vars while reducing outer joins.
We weren't actually using the passed-down list for anything, other
than computing the new value to be passed down further.  I (tgl)
probably had the idea that we'd need this data eventually; but
no use-case has emerged in a good long while, so let's just stop
expending useless cycles here.

Richard Guo

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48KLy9aBb=sZ5MoNmnqAcGHaW_JTGWLCgoE_uMW7S6C-A@mail.gmail.com
2022-11-05 15:58:51 -04:00
Tom Lane ff8fa0bf7e Handle SubPlan cases in find_nonnullable_rels/vars.
We can use some variants of SubPlan to deduce that Vars appearing
in the testexpr must be non-null.

Richard Guo

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-jV=199A2Y_6==99dYnpnmaO_Wz_RGkRTTaCB=Pihw2w@mail.gmail.com
2022-11-05 15:24:36 -04:00
David Rowley 5543677ec9 Use Limit instead of Unique to implement DISTINCT, when possible
When all of the query's DISTINCT pathkeys have been marked as redundant
due to EquivalenceClasses existing which contain constants, we can just
implement the DISTINCT operation on a query by just limiting the number of
returned rows to 1 instead of performing a Unique on all of the matching
(duplicate) rows.

This applies in cases such as:

SELECT DISTINCT col,col2 FROM tab WHERE col = 1 AND col2 = 10;

If there are any matching rows, then they must all be {1,10}.  There's no
point in fetching all of those and running a Unique operator on them to
leave only a single row.  Here we effectively just find the first row and
then stop.  We are obviously unable to apply this optimization if either
the col = 1 or col2 = 10 were missing from the WHERE clause or if there
were any additional columns in the SELECT clause.

Such queries are probably not all that common, but detecting when we can
apply this optimization amounts to checking if the distinct_pathkeys are
NULL, which is very cheap indeed.

Nothing is done here to check if the query already has a LIMIT clause.  If
it does then the plan may end up with 2 Limits nodes.  There's no harm in
that and it's probably not worth the complexity to unify them into a
single Limit node.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqS0j8RUWRUSgCAXxOqnYjHUXmKwspRj4GzVfOO25ByHA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYPR01MB7101CD5DA0A07C9DE2B74850A4239@MEYPR01MB7101.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com
2022-10-28 23:04:38 +13:00
Tom Lane a5fc46414d Avoid making commutatively-duplicate clauses in EquivalenceClasses.
When we decide we need to make a derived clause equating a.x and
b.y, we already will re-use a previously-made clause "a.x = b.y".
But we might instead have "b.y = a.x", which is perfectly usable
because equivclass.c has never promised anything about the
operand order in clauses it builds.  Saving construction of a
new RestrictInfo doesn't matter all that much in itself --- but
because we cache selectivity estimates and so on per-RestrictInfo,
there's a possibility of saving a fair amount of duplicative
effort downstream.

Hence, check for commutative matches as well as direct ones when
seeing if we have a pre-existing clause.  This changes the visible
clause order in several regression test cases, but they're all
clearly-insignificant changes.

Checking for the reverse operand order is simple enough, but
if we wanted to check for operator OID match we'd need to call
get_commutator here, which is not so cheap.  I concluded that
we don't really need the operator check anyway, so I just
removed it.  It's unlikely that an opfamily contains more than
one applicable operator for a given pair of operand datatypes;
and if it does they had better give the same answers, so there
seems little need to insist that we use exactly the one
select_equality_operator chose.

Using the current core regression suite as a test case, I see
this change reducing the number of new join clauses built by
create_join_clause from 9673 to 5142 (out of 26652 calls).
So not quite 50% savings, but pretty close to it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/78062.1666735746@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-10-27 14:42:18 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 3b2db22fe2
Update some comments that should've covered MERGE
Oversight in 7103ebb7aa.  Backpatch to 15.

Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48gnDjZXq3-b56dVpQCNUJ5hD9kdtWN4QFwKCEapspNsA@mail.gmail.com
2022-10-24 12:52:43 +02:00
Tom Lane 8bf66dedd8 Fix confusion about havingQual vs hasHavingQual in planner.
Preprocessing of the HAVING clause will reduce havingQual to NIL
if the clause is constant-TRUE.  This is one case where that
convention is rather unfortunate, because "HAVING TRUE" is not at all
the same as not having any HAVING clause at all.  (Per the SQL spec,
it still forces the query to be grouped.)  The planner deals with this
by having a boolean hasHavingQual that records whether havingQual was
originally nonempty; places that just want to check whether HAVING
was specified are supposed to consult that.

I found three places that got that wrong.  Fortunately, these could
only affect cost estimates not correctness.  It'd be hard even
to demonstrate the errors; for example, the one in allpaths.c would
only matter in a query that has HAVING TRUE but no GROUP BY and no
aggregates, which would require a completely variable-free SELECT
list, making the case probably of only academic interest.  Hence,
while these are worth fixing before someone copies the incorrect
coding somewhere more critical, they don't seem worth back-patching.
I didn't bother trying to devise regression tests, either.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2503888.1666042643@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-10-18 10:44:34 -04:00
Tom Lane eec3466118 Guard against table-AM-less relations in planner.
The executor will dump core if it's asked to execute a seqscan on
a relation having no table AM, such as a view.  While that shouldn't
really happen, it's possible to get there via catalog corruption,
such as a missing ON SELECT rule.  It seems worth installing a defense
against that.  There are multiple plausible places for such a defense,
but I picked the planner's get_relation_info().

Per discussion of bug #17646 from Kui Liu.  Back-patch to v12 where
the tableam APIs were introduced; in older versions you won't get a
SIGSEGV, so it seems less pressing.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17646-70c93cfa40365776@postgresql.org
2022-10-17 11:35:23 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera cba4e78f35
Disallow MERGE cleanly for foreign partitions
While directly targetting a foreign table with MERGE was already
expressly forbidden, we failed to catch the case of a partitioned table
that has a foreign table as a partition; and the result if you try is an
incomprehensible error.  Fix that by adding a specific check.

Backpatch to 15.

Reported-by: Tatsuhiro Nakamori <bt22nakamorit@oss.nttdata.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bt22nakamorit@oss.nttdata.com
2022-10-15 19:24:26 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut f14aad5169 Remove unnecessary uses of Abs()
Use C standard abs() or fabs() instead.

Reviewed-by: Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4beb42b5-216b-bce8-d452-d924d5794c63%40enterprisedb.com
2022-10-07 13:29:33 +02:00
David Rowley 2d0bbedda7 Rename shadowed local variables
In a similar effort to f01592f91, here we mostly rename shadowed local
variables to remove the warnings produced when compiling with
-Wshadow=compatible-local.

This fixes 63 warnings and leaves just 5.

Author: Justin Pryzby, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion https://postgr.es/m/20220817145434.GC26426%40telsasoft.com
2022-10-05 21:01:41 +13:00
Tom Lane f4c7c410ee Revert "Optimize order of GROUP BY keys".
This reverts commit db0d67db24 and
several follow-on fixes.  The idea of making a cost-based choice
of the order of the sorting columns is not fundamentally unsound,
but it requires cost information and data statistics that we don't
really have.  For example, relying on procost to distinguish the
relative costs of different sort comparators is pretty pointless
so long as most such comparator functions are labeled with cost 1.0.
Moreover, estimating the number of comparisons done by Quicksort
requires more than just an estimate of the number of distinct values
in the input: you also need some idea of the sizes of the larger
groups, if you want an estimate that's good to better than a factor of
three or so.  That's data that's often unknown or not very reliable.
Worse, to arrive at estimates of the number of calls made to the
lower-order-column comparison functions, the code needs to make
estimates of the numbers of distinct values of multiple columns,
which are necessarily even less trustworthy than per-column stats.
Even if all the inputs are perfectly reliable, the cost algorithm
as-implemented cannot offer useful information about how to order
sorting columns beyond the point at which the average group size
is estimated to drop to 1.

Close inspection of the code added by db0d67db2 shows that there
are also multiple small bugs.  These could have been fixed, but
there's not much point if we don't trust the estimates to be
accurate in-principle.

Finally, the changes in cost_sort's behavior made for very large
changes (often a factor of 2 or so) in the cost estimates for all
sorting operations, not only those for multi-column GROUP BY.
That naturally changes plan choices in many situations, and there's
precious little evidence to show that the changes are for the better.
Given the above doubts about whether the new estimates are really
trustworthy, it's hard to summon much confidence that these changes
are better on the average.

Since we're hard up against the release deadline for v15, let's
revert these changes for now.  We can always try again later.

Note: in v15, I left T_PathKeyInfo in place in nodes.h even though
it's unreferenced.  Removing it would be an ABI break, and it seems
a bit late in the release cycle for that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB586665EB5FB2C3807E893941F5579@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2022-10-03 10:56:16 -04:00
Andres Freund e6927270cd meson: Add initial version of meson based build system
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.

After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.

We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.

This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).

Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.

When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.

The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.

Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson

With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-09-21 22:37:17 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan a601366a46 Harmonize more parameter names in bulk.
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in optimizer, parser,
utility, libpq, and "commands" code, as well as in remaining library
code.  Do the same for all code related to frontend programs (with the
exception of pg_dump/pg_dumpall related code).

Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy.  Later commits will handle
ecpg and pg_dump/pg_dumpall.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
2022-09-20 13:09:30 -07:00
David Rowley 55b4966365 Fix misleading comment for get_cheapest_group_keys_order
The header comment for get_cheapest_group_keys_order() claimed that the
output arguments were set to a newly allocated list which may be freed by
the calling function, however, this was not always true as the function
would simply leave these arguments untouched in some cases.

This tripped me up when working on 1349d2790 as I mistakenly assumed I
could perform a list_concat with the output parameters.  That turned out
bad due to list_concat modifying the original input lists.

In passing, make it more clear that the number of distinct values is
important to reduce tiebreaks during sorts.  Also, explain what the
n_preordered parameter means.

Backpatch-through: 15, where get_cheapest_group_keys_order was introduced.
2022-09-20 10:03:26 +12:00
David Rowley 78a9af1a27 Fix out-dated comment in preprocess_groupclause()
The comment claimed we don't consider other orders of the GROUP BY clause,
but this is no longer true as of db0d67db2.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq65=9Ro+hLX1i9ugWEiNDvHrBibAO7ARcTnf38_JE+UQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15, where db0d67db2 was introduced.
2022-09-20 09:13:49 +12:00
David Rowley 63840526b0 Fix outdated convert_saop_to_hashed_saop comment
In 29f45e299, we added support for optimizing the execution of NOT
IN(values) by using a hash table instead of a linear search over the
array.  That commit neglected to update the header comment for
convert_saop_to_hashed_saop() to mention this fact.  Here we fix that.

Author: James Coleman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe99NUpAPcxgchGstgM23fmiGjqQPot8627YgkBgNt=BfA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15, where 29f45e299 was added.
2022-09-15 09:40:34 +12:00
Tom Lane ff720a597c Fix planner to consider matches to boolean columns in extension indexes.
The planner has to special-case indexes on boolean columns, because
what we need for an indexscan on such a column is a qual of the shape
of "boolvar = pseudoconstant".  For plain bool constants, previous
simplification will have reduced this to "boolvar" or "NOT boolvar",
and we have to reverse that if we want to make an indexqual.  There is
existing code to do so, but it only fires when the index's opfamily
is BOOL_BTREE_FAM_OID or BOOL_HASH_FAM_OID.  Thus extension AMs, or
extension opclasses such as contrib/btree_gin, are out in the cold.

The reason for hard-wiring the set of relevant opfamilies was mostly
to avoid a catalog lookup in a hot code path.  We can improve matters
while not taking much of a performance hit by relying on the
hard-wired set when the opfamily OID is visibly built-in, and only
checking the catalogs when dealing with an extension opfamily.

While here, rename IsBooleanOpfamily to IsBuiltinBooleanOpfamily
to remind future users of that macro of its limitations.  At some
point we might want to make indxpath.c's improved version of the
test globally accessible, but it's not presently needed elsewhere.

Zongliang Quan and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f293b91d-1d46-d386-b6bb-4b06ff5c667b@yeah.net
2022-09-02 17:01:51 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 2f2b18bd3f Revert SQL/JSON features
The reverts the following and makes some associated cleanups:

    commit f79b803dc: Common SQL/JSON clauses
    commit f4fb45d15: SQL/JSON constructors
    commit 5f0adec25: Make STRING an unreserved_keyword.
    commit 33a377608: IS JSON predicate
    commit 1a36bc9db: SQL/JSON query functions
    commit 606948b05: SQL JSON functions
    commit 49082c2cc: RETURNING clause for JSON() and JSON_SCALAR()
    commit 4e34747c8: JSON_TABLE
    commit fadb48b00: PLAN clauses for JSON_TABLE
    commit 2ef6f11b0: Reduce running time of jsonb_sqljson test
    commit 14d3f24fa: Further improve jsonb_sqljson parallel test
    commit a6baa4bad: Documentation for SQL/JSON features
    commit b46bcf7a4: Improve readability of SQL/JSON documentation.
    commit 112fdb352: Fix finalization for json_objectagg and friends
    commit fcdb35c32: Fix transformJsonBehavior
    commit 4cd8717af: Improve a couple of sql/json error messages
    commit f7a605f63: Small cleanups in SQL/JSON code
    commit 9c3d25e17: Fix JSON_OBJECTAGG uniquefying bug
    commit a79153b7a: Claim SQL standard compliance for SQL/JSON features
    commit a1e7616d6: Rework SQL/JSON documentation
    commit 8d9f9634e: Fix errors in copyfuncs/equalfuncs support for JSON node types.
    commit 3c633f32b: Only allow returning string types or bytea from json_serialize
    commit 67b26703b: expression eval: Fix EEOP_JSON_CONSTRUCTOR and EEOP_JSONEXPR size.

The release notes are also adjusted.

Backpatch to release 15.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/40d2c882-bcac-19a9-754d-4299e1d87ac7@postgresql.org
2022-09-01 17:07:14 -04:00
David Rowley 3e0fff2e68 More -Wshadow=compatible-local warning fixes
In a similar effort to f01592f91, here we're targetting fixing the
warnings where we've deemed the shadowing variable to serve a close enough
purpose to the shadowed variable just to reuse the shadowed version and
not declare the shadowing variable at all.

By my count, this takes the warning count from 106 down to 71.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220825020839.GT2342@telsasoft.com
2022-08-26 02:35:40 +12:00
David Rowley f959bf9a5b Further -Wshadow=compatible-local warning fixes
These should have been included in 421892a19 as these shadowed variable
warnings can also be fixed by adjusting the scope of the shadowed variable
to put the declaration for it in an inner scope.

This is part of the same effort as f01592f91.

By my count, this takes the warning count from 114 down to 106.

Author: David Rowley and Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrwLGBP%2BYw9vriayyf%3DXR4uPWP5jr6cQhP9au_kaDUhbA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-24 22:04:28 +12:00
David Rowley 421892a192 Further reduce warnings with -Wshadow=compatible-local
In a similar effort to f01592f91, here we're targetting fixing the
warnings that -Wshadow=compatible-local produces that we can fix by moving
a variable to an inner scope to stop that variable from being shadowed by
another variable declared somewhere later in the function.

All of the warnings being fixed here are changing the scope of variables
which are being used as an iterator for a "for" loop.  In each instance,
the fix happens to be changing the for loop to use the C99 type
initialization.  Much of this code likely pre-dates our use of C99.

Reducing the scope of the outer scoped variable seems like the safest way
to fix these.  Renaming seems more likely to risk patches using the wrong
variable.  Reducing the scope is more likely to result in a compilation
failure after applying some future patch rather than introducing bugs with
it.

By my count, this takes the warning count from 129 down to 114.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrwLGBP%2BYw9vriayyf%3DXR4uPWP5jr6cQhP9au_kaDUhbA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-24 12:27:12 +12:00
Tom Lane 2f17b57017 Improve performance of adjust_appendrel_attrs_multilevel.
The present implementations of adjust_appendrel_attrs_multilevel and
its sibling adjust_child_relids_multilevel are very messy, because
they work by reconstructing the relids of the child's immediate
parent and then seeing if that's bms_equal to the relids of the
target parent.  Aside from being quite inefficient, this will not
work with planned future changes to make joinrels' relid sets
contain outer-join relids in addition to baserels.

The whole thing can be solved at a stroke by adding explicit parent
and top_parent links to child RelOptInfos, and making these functions
work with RelOptInfo pointers instead of relids.  Doing that is
simpler for most callers, too.

In my original version of this patch, I got rid of
RelOptInfo.top_parent_relids on the grounds that it was now redundant.
However, that adds a lot of code churn in places that otherwise would
not need changing, and arguably the extra indirection needed to fetch
top_parent->relids in those places costs something.  So this version
leaves that field in place.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/553080.1657481916@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-08-18 12:36:16 -04:00
David Rowley af7d270dd3 Fix hypothetical problem passing the wrong GROUP BY pathkeys
1349d2790 changed things to make the planner request that the
query_pathkeys contain pathkeys for any ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates.
Some code added prior to that commit in db0d67db2 made it so the order
that the pathkeys appear in the group_pathkeys could be changed so that
the GROUP BY could be executed in a more optimal order which minimized
sort comparisons.  1349d2790 had to make sure that the pathkeys for any
ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates remained at the end of the groupby_pathkeys
and wasn't reordered, so some code was added to
add_paths_to_grouping_rel() to first strip off any pathkeys belonging to
ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates before passing to the function to optimize
the order of the group_pathkeys.

It seems I dropped the ball in 1349d2790 and mistakenly used the untouched
PlannerInfo.group_pathkeys to pass to get_useful_group_keys_orderings()
instead of the version that had the aggregate pathkeys removed.  It was
only the code path that was handling creating paths for
partially_grouped_rel which made this mistake.  In practice, we'll never
have any extra pathkeys to strip off when processing
partially_grouped_rel as that's only used when considering partial
paths, which we never do when there are ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates.
So this is just a hypothetical bug, not a live bug.  We already have the
correct pathkeys determined, so it's of no extra cost to pass the
correct variable.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220817015755.GB26426@telsasoft.com
2022-08-18 11:32:55 +12:00
Tom Lane afa0ec30bf Refactor addition of PlaceHolderVars to joinrel targetlists.
Make build_joinrel_tlist() responsible for adding PHVs that were
already computed in one or the other input relation, and therefore
change add_placeholders_to_joinrel() to only add PHVs that will be
newly computed in this joinrel's output.  This makes the handling
of PHVs in build_joinrel_tlist() more like its handling of plain
Vars, which seems like a good thing on intelligibility grounds
and will simplify planned future changes.  There is a purely
cosmetic side-effect that the order of entries in the joinrel's
tlist may change; but since it becomes more like the order of
entries in the input tlists, that's not bad.

The reason it wasn't done like this originally was the potential
cost of looking up PlaceHolderInfo entries to consult ph_needed.
Now that that's O(1) it shouldn't hurt.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1405792.1660677844@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-08-17 16:12:23 -04:00
Tom Lane b3ff6c742f Use an explicit state flag to control PlaceHolderInfo creation.
Up to now, callers of find_placeholder_info() were required to pass
a flag indicating if it's OK to make a new PlaceHolderInfo.  That'd
be fine if the callers had free choice, but they do not.  Once we
begin deconstruct_jointree() it's no longer OK to make more PHIs;
while callers before that always want to create a PHI if it's not
there already.  So there's no freedom of action, only the opportunity
to cause bugs by creating PHIs too late.  Let's get rid of that in
favor of adding a state flag PlannerInfo.placeholdersFrozen, which
we can set at the point where it's no longer OK to make more PHIs.

This patch also simplifies a couple of call sites that were using
complicated logic to avoid calling find_placeholder_info() as much
as possible.  Now that that lookup is O(1) thanks to the previous
commit, the extra bitmap manipulations are probably a net negative.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1405792.1660677844@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-08-17 15:52:53 -04:00
Tom Lane 6569ca4397 Make PlaceHolderInfo lookup O(1).
Up to now we've just searched the placeholder_list when we want to
find the PlaceHolderInfo with a given ID.  While there's no evidence
of that being a problem in the field, an upcoming patch will add
find_placeholder_info() calls in build_joinrel_tlist(), which seems
likely to make it more of an issue: a joinrel emitting lots of
PlaceHolderVars would incur O(N^2) cost, and we might be building
a lot of joinrels in complex queries.  Hence, add an array that
can be indexed directly by phid to make the lookups constant-time.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1405792.1660677844@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-08-17 15:35:51 -04:00
Tom Lane efd0c16bec Avoid using list_length() to test for empty list.
The standard way to check for list emptiness is to compare the
List pointer to NIL; our list code goes out of its way to ensure
that that is the only representation of an empty list.  (An
acceptable alternative is a plain boolean test for non-null
pointer, but explicit mention of NIL is usually preferable.)

Various places didn't get that memo and expressed the condition
with list_length(), which might not be so bad except that there
were such a variety of ways to check it exactly: equal to zero,
less than or equal to zero, less than one, yadda yadda.  In the
name of code readability, let's standardize all those spellings
as "list == NIL" or "list != NIL".  (There's probably some
microscopic efficiency gain too, though few of these look to be
at all performance-critical.)

A very small number of cases were left as-is because they seemed
more consistent with other adjacent list_length tests that way.

Peter Smith, with bikeshedding from a number of us

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtQYe+ENX5KrONMfugf0q6NHg4hR5dAhqEXEc2eefFeig@mail.gmail.com
2022-08-17 11:12:35 -04:00
David Rowley 53823a06be Fix failure to set correct operator in window run condition
This was a simple omission in 9d9c02ccd where the code didn't correctly
set the operator to use in the run condition OpExpr when the window
function was both monotonically increasing and decreasing.

Bug discovered by Julien Roze, although he did not report it.

Reported-by: Phil Florent
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/PA4P191MB160009A09B9D0624359278CFBA9F9@PA4P191MB1600.EURP191.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Backpatch-through: 15, where 9d9c02ccd was added
2022-08-05 10:14:00 +12:00
Tom Lane 1aa8dad41f Fix incorrect tests for SRFs in relation_can_be_sorted_early().
Commit fac1b470a thought we could check for set-returning functions
by testing only the top-level node in an expression tree.  This is
wrong in itself, and to make matters worse it encouraged others
to make the same mistake, by exporting tlist.c's special-purpose
IS_SRF_CALL() as a widely-visible macro.  I can't find any evidence
that anyone's taken the bait, but it was only a matter of time.

Use expression_returns_set() instead, and stuff the IS_SRF_CALL()
genie back in its bottle, this time with a warning label.  I also
added a couple of cross-reference comments.

After a fair amount of fooling around, I've despaired of making
a robust test case that exposes the bug reliably, so no test case
here.  (Note that the test case added by fac1b470a is itself
broken, in that it doesn't notice if you remove the code change.
The repro given by the bug submitter currently doesn't fail either
in v15 or HEAD, though I suspect that may indicate an unrelated bug.)

Per bug #17564 from Martijn van Oosterhout.  Back-patch to v13,
as the faulty patch was.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17564-c7472c2f90ef2da3@postgresql.org
2022-08-03 17:33:42 -04:00
David Rowley 1349d2790b Improve performance of ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates
ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggreagtes have, since implemented in Postgres, been
executed by always performing a sort in nodeAgg.c to sort the tuples in
the current group into the correct order before calling the transition
function on the sorted tuples.  This was not great as often there might be
an index that could have provided pre-sorted input and allowed the
transition functions to be called as the rows come in, rather than having
to store them in a tuplestore in order to sort them once all the tuples
for the group have arrived.

Here we change the planner so it requests a path with a sort order which
supports the most amount of ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregate functions and
add new code to the executor to allow it to support the processing of
ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates where the tuples are already sorted in the
correct order.

Since there can be many ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates in any given query
level, it's very possible that we can't find an order that suits all of
these aggregates.  The sort order that the planner chooses is simply the
one that suits the most aggregate functions.  We take the most strictly
sorted variation of each order and see how many aggregate functions can
use that, then we try again with the order of the remaining aggregates to
see if another order would suit more aggregate functions.  For example:

SELECT agg(a ORDER BY a),agg2(a ORDER BY a,b) ...

would request the sort order to be {a, b} because {a} is a subset of the
sort order of {a,b}, but;

SELECT agg(a ORDER BY a),agg2(a ORDER BY c) ...

would just pick a plan ordered by {a} (we give precedence to aggregates
which are earlier in the targetlist).

SELECT agg(a ORDER BY a),agg2(a ORDER BY b),agg3(a ORDER BY b) ...

would choose to order by {b} since two aggregates suit that vs just one
that requires input ordered by {a}.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau, James Coleman, Ranier Vilela, Richard Guo, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpHzfo92%3DR4W0%2BxVua3BUYCKMckWAmo-2t_KiXN-wYH%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-02 23:11:45 +12:00
David Rowley b592422095 Relax overly strict rules in select_outer_pathkeys_for_merge()
The select_outer_pathkeys_for_merge function made an attempt to build the
merge join pathkeys in the same order as query_pathkeys.  This was done as
it may have led to no sort being required for an ORDER BY or GROUP BY
clause in the upper planner.  However, this restriction seems overly
strict as it required that we match the query_pathkeys entirely or we
don't bother putting the merge join pathkeys in that order.

Here we relax this rule so that we use a prefix of the query_pathkeys
providing that prefix matches all of the join quals.  This may provide the
upper planner with partially sorted input which will allow the use of
incremental sorts instead of full sorts.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrtZu0PHVfDPFM4Yx3jNR2Wuwosv+T2zqa7LrhhBr2rRg@mail.gmail.com
2022-08-02 11:02:46 +12:00
Tom Lane d8e34fa7a1 Fix incorrect is-this-the-topmost-join tests in parallel planning.
Two callers of generate_useful_gather_paths were testing the wrong
thing when deciding whether to call that function: they checked for
being at the top of the current join subproblem, rather than being at
the actual top join.  This'd result in failing to construct parallel
paths for a sub-join for which they might be useful.

While set_rel_pathlist() isn't actively broken, it seems best to
make its identical-in-intention test for this be like the other two.

This has been wrong all along, but given the lack of field complaints
I'm hesitant to back-patch into stable branches; we usually prefer
to avoid non-bug-fix changes in plan choices in minor releases.
It seems not too late for v15 though.

Richard Guo, reviewed by Antonin Houska and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-mH8Zf87-w+3P2J=nJB+5OyicO28ia9q_9o=Lamf_VHg@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-30 13:05:15 -04:00
Thomas Munro 4f1f5a7f85 Remove fls(), use pg_leftmost_one_pos32() instead.
Commit 4f658dc8 provided the traditional BSD fls() function in
src/port/fls.c so it could be used in several places.  Later we added a
bunch of similar facilities in pg_bitutils.h, based on compiler
builtins that map to hardware instructions.  It's a bit confusing to
have both 1-based and 0-based variants of this operation in use in
different parts of the tree, and neither is blessed by a standard.
Let's drop fls.c and the configure probe, and reuse the newer code.

Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B7dSX1XF8yFGmYk-%3D48dbjH2kmzZj16XvhbrWP-9BzRg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-07-22 10:41:50 +12:00
Tom Lane d6a3aeb9a3 Convert planner's AggInfo and AggTransInfo structs to proper Nodes.
This is mostly just to get outfuncs.c support for them, so that
the agginfos and aggtransinfos lists can be dumped when dumping
the contents of PlannerInfo.

While here, improve some related comments; notably, clean up
obsolete comments left over from when preprocess_minmax_aggregates
had to make its own scan of the query tree.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/742479.1658160504@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-07-19 12:29:37 -04:00
Tom Lane e2f6c307c0 Estimate cost of elided SubqueryScan, Append, MergeAppend nodes better.
setrefs.c contains logic to discard no-op SubqueryScan nodes, that is,
ones that have no qual to check and copy the input targetlist unchanged.
(Formally it's not very nice to be applying such optimizations so late
in the planner, but there are practical reasons for it; mostly that we
can't unify relids between the subquery and the parent query until we
flatten the rangetable during setrefs.c.)  This behavior falsifies our
previous cost estimates, since we would've charged cpu_tuple_cost per
row just to pass data through the node.  Most of the time that's little
enough to not matter, but there are cases where this effect visibly
changes the plan compared to what you would've gotten with no
sub-select.

To improve the situation, make the callers of cost_subqueryscan tell
it whether they think the targetlist is trivial.  cost_subqueryscan
already has the qual list, so it can check the other half of the
condition easily.  It could make its own determination of tlist
triviality too, but doing so would be repetitive (for callers that
may call it several times) or unnecessarily expensive (for callers
that can determine this more cheaply than a general test would do).

This isn't a 100% solution, because createplan.c also does things
that can falsify any earlier estimate of whether the tlist is
trivial.  However, it fixes nearly all cases in practice, if results
for the regression tests are anything to go by.

setrefs.c also contains logic to discard no-op Append and MergeAppend
nodes.  We did have knowledge of that behavior at costing time, but
somebody failed to update it when a check on parallel-awareness was
added to the setrefs.c logic.  Fix that while we're here.

These changes result in two minor changes in query plans shown in
our regression tests.  Neither is relevant to the purposes of its
test case AFAICT.

Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2581077.1651703520@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-07-19 11:18:19 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 1679d57a55
Wrap overly long lines
Reported by Richard Guo.

Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-3ywL_tPHJKk-Vvzr-tBaR--b6XxGGm8Xe7vsG38AWog@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-19 09:54:03 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut b449afb582 Attempt to fix compiler warning on old compiler
Build farm member lapwing (using gcc 4.7.2) didn't like one part of
9fd45870c1, raising a compiler warning.
Revert that for now.
2022-07-16 13:45:57 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 9fd45870c1 Replace many MemSet calls with struct initialization
This replaces all MemSet() calls with struct initialization where that
is easily and obviously possible.  (For example, some cases have to
worry about padding bits, so I left those.)

(The same could be done with appropriate memset() calls, but this
patch is part of an effort to phase out MemSet(), so it doesn't touch
memset() calls.)

Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9847b13c-b785-f4e2-75c3-12ec77a3b05c@enterprisedb.com
2022-07-16 08:50:49 +02:00
Michael Paquier 6203583b72 Remove support for Visual Studio 2013
No members of the buildfarm are using this version of Visual Studio,
resulting in all the code cleaned up here as being mostly dead, and
VS2017 is the oldest version still supported.

More versions could be cut, but the gain would be minimal, while
removing only VS2013 has the advantage to remove from the core code all
the dependencies on the value defined by _MSC_VER, where compatibility
tweaks have accumulated across the years mostly around locales and
strtof(), so that's a nice isolated cleanup.

Note that this commit additionally allows a revert of 3154e16.  The
versions of Visual Studio now supported range from 2015 to 2022.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha, Tom Lane, Thomas Munro, Justin
Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YoH2IMtxcS3ncWn+@paquier.xyz
2022-07-14 11:22:49 +09:00
David Rowley c23e3e6beb Use list_copy_head() instead of list_truncate(list_copy(...), ...)
Truncating off the end of a freshly copied List is not a very efficient
way of copying the first N elements of a List.

In many of the cases that are updated here, the pattern was only being
used to remove the final element of a List.  That's about the best case
for it, but there were many instances where the truncate trimming the List
down much further.

4cc832f94 added list_copy_head(), so let's use it in cases where it's
useful.

Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1986787.1657666922%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-07-13 15:03:47 +12:00
David Rowley 4cc832f94a Tidy up code in get_cheapest_group_keys_order()
There are a few things that we could do a little better within
get_cheapest_group_keys_order():

1. We should be using list_free() rather than pfree() on a List.

2. We should use for_each_from() instead of manually coding a for loop to
skip the first n elements of a List

3. list_truncate(list_copy(...), n) is not a great way to copy the first n
elements of a list. Let's invent list_copy_head() for that.  That way we
don't need to copy the entire list just to truncate it directly
afterwards.

4. We can simplify finding the cheapest cost by setting the cheapest cost
variable to DBL_MAX.  That allows us to skip special-casing the initial
iteration of the loop.

Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrGyL3ft8waEkncG9y5HDMu5TFFJB1paoTC8zi9YK97Nw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15, where get_cheapest_group_keys_order was added.
2022-07-13 14:02:20 +12:00
Tom Lane f172b11d61 Remove no-longer-used parameter for create_groupingsets_path().
numGroups is unused since commit b5635948a; let's get rid of it.

XueJing Zhao, reviewed by Richard Guo

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM6PR05MB64923CC8B63A2CAF3B2E5D47B7AD9@DM6PR05MB6492.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
2022-07-01 18:39:30 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita 4a8a5dd7f5 Improve comments for trivial_subqueryscan().
This function can be called from mark_async_capable_plan(), a helper
function for create_append_plan(), before set_subqueryscan_references(),
to determine the triviality of a SubqueryScan that is a child of an
Append plan node, which is done before doing finalize_plan() on the
SubqueryScan (if necessary) and set_plan_references() on the subplan,
unlike when called from set_subqueryscan_references().  The reason why
this is safe wouldn't be that obvious, so add comments explaining this.

Follow-up for commit c2bb02bc2.

Reviewed by Zhihong Yu.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK17%2BGiJBthC6va7%2B9n6t75e-M1N0U18YB2G1B%2BE5OdrNTA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-06-09 19:30:00 +09:00
David Rowley 3e9abd2eb1 Teach remove_unused_subquery_outputs about window run conditions
9d9c02ccd added code to allow the executor to take shortcuts when quals
on monotonic window functions guaranteed that once the qual became false
it could never become true again.  When possible, baserestrictinfo quals
are converted to become these quals, which we call run conditions.

Unfortunately, in 9d9c02ccd, I forgot to update
remove_unused_subquery_outputs to teach it about these run conditions.
This could cause a WindowFunc column which was unused in the target list
but referenced by an upper-level WHERE clause to be removed from the
subquery when the qual in the WHERE clause was converted into a window run
condition.  Because of this, the entire WindowClause would be removed from
the query resulting in additional rows making it into the resultset when
they should have been filtered out by the WHERE clause.

Here we fix this by recording which target list items in the subquery have
run conditions. That gets passed along to remove_unused_subquery_outputs
to tell it not to remove these items from the target list.

Bug: #17495
Reported-by: Jeremy Evans
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17495-7ffe2fa0b261b9fa@postgresql.org
2022-05-27 10:37:58 +12:00
Tom Lane a916cb9d5a Avoid overflow hazard when clamping group counts to "long int".
Several places in the planner tried to clamp a double value to fit
in a "long" by doing
	(long) Min(x, (double) LONG_MAX);
This is subtly incorrect, because it casts LONG_MAX to double and
potentially back again.  If long is 64 bits then the double value
is inexact, and the platform might round it up to LONG_MAX+1
resulting in an overflow and an undesirably negative output.

While it's not hard to rewrite the expression into a safe form,
let's put it into a common function to reduce the risk of someone
doing it wrong in future.

In principle this is a bug fix, but since the problem could only
manifest with group count estimates exceeding 2^63, it seems unlikely
that anyone has actually hit this or will do so anytime soon.  We're
fixing it mainly to satisfy fuzzer-type tools.  That being the case,
a HEAD-only fix seems sufficient.

Andrey Lepikhov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ebbc2efb-7ef9-bf2f-1ada-d6ec48f70e58@postgrespro.ru
2022-05-21 13:13:44 -04:00
David Rowley 1e731ed12a Fix incorrect row estimates used for Memoize costing
In order to estimate the cache hit ratio of a Memoize node, one of the
inputs we require is the estimated number of times the Memoize node will
be rescanned.  The higher this number, the large the cache hit ratio is
likely to become.  Unfortunately, the value being passed as the number of
"calls" to the Memoize was incorrectly using the Nested Loop's
outer_path->parent->rows instead of outer_path->rows.  This failed to
account for the fact that the outer_path might be parameterized by some
upper-level Nested Loop.

This problem could lead to Memoize plans appearing more favorable than
they might actually be.  It could also lead to extended executor startup
times when work_mem values were large due to the planner setting overly
large MemoizePath->est_entries resulting in the Memoize hash table being
initially made much larger than might be required.

Fix this simply by passing outer_path->rows rather than
outer_path->parent->rows.  Also, adjust the expected regression test
output for a plan change.

Reported-by: Pavel Stehule
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRAMp%3DQsMi6sPQJ4W3hczoFJRvyXHJV3AZAZaMyTVM312Q%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14, where Memoize was introduced
2022-05-16 16:07:56 +12:00
Tom Lane 23e7b38bfe Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.
I manually fixed a couple of comments that pgindent uglified.
2022-05-12 15:17:30 -04:00
Tom Lane 79b58c6f68 Make pull_var_clause() handle GroupingFuncs exactly like Aggrefs.
This follows in the footsteps of commit 2591ee8ec by removing one more
ill-advised shortcut from planning of GroupingFuncs.  It's true that
we don't intend to execute the argument expression(s) at runtime, but
we still have to process any Vars appearing within them, or we risk
failure at setrefs.c time (or more fundamentally, in EXPLAIN trying
to print such an expression).  Vars in upper plan nodes have to have
referents in the next plan level, whether we ever execute 'em or not.

Per bug #17479 from Michael J. Sullivan.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Richard Guo

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17479-6260deceaf0ad304@postgresql.org
2022-05-12 11:31:46 -04:00
Tom Lane c40ba5f318 Fix rowcount estimate for SubqueryScan that's under a Gather.
SubqueryScan was always getting labeled with a rowcount estimate
appropriate for non-parallel cases.  However, nodes that are
underneath a Gather should be treated as processing only one
worker's share of the rows, whether the particular node is explicitly
parallel-aware or not.  Most non-scan-level node types get this
right automatically because they base their rowcount estimate on
that of their input sub-Path(s).  But SubqueryScan didn't do that,
instead using the whole-relation rowcount estimate as if it were
a non-parallel-aware scan node.  If there is a parallel-aware node
below the SubqueryScan, this is wrong, and it results in inflating
the cost estimates for nodes above the SubqueryScan, which can cause
us to not choose a parallel plan, or choose a silly one --- as indeed
is visible in the one regression test whose results change with this
patch.  (Although that plan tree appears to contain no SubqueryScans,
there were some in it before setrefs.c deleted them.)

To fix, use path->subpath->rows not baserel->tuples as the number
of input tuples we'll process.  This requires estimating the quals'
selectivity afresh, which is slightly annoying; but it shouldn't
really add much cost thanks to the caching done in RestrictInfo.

This is pretty clearly a bug fix, but I'll refrain from back-patching
as people might not appreciate plan choices changing in stable branches.
The fact that it took us this long to identify the bug suggests that
it's not a major problem.

Per report from bucoo, though this is not his proposed patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202204121457159307248@sohu.com
2022-05-04 14:44:40 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita 5c854e7a2c Disable asynchronous execution if using gating Result nodes.
mark_async_capable_plan(), which is called from create_append_plan() to
determine whether subplans are async-capable, failed to take into
account that the given subplan created from a given subpath might
include a gating Result node if the subpath is a SubqueryScanPath or
ForeignPath, causing a segmentation fault there when the subplan created
from a SubqueryScanPath includes the Result node, or causing
ExecAsyncRequest() to throw an error about an unrecognized node type
when the subplan created from a ForeignPath includes the Result node,
because in the latter case the Result node was unintentionally
considered as async-capable, but we don't currently support executing
Result nodes asynchronously.  Fix by modifying mark_async_capable_plan()
to disable asynchronous execution in such cases.  Also, adjust code in
the ProjectionPath case in mark_async_capable_plan(), for consistency
with other cases, and adjust/improve comments there.

is_async_capable_path() added in commit 27e1f1456, which was rewritten
to mark_async_capable_plan() in a later commit, has the same issue,
causing the error at execution mentioned above, so back-patch to v14
where the aforesaid commit went in.

Per report from Justin Pryzby.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Zhihong Yu and Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220408124338.GK24419%40telsasoft.com
2022-04-28 15:15:00 +09:00
Tom Lane 92e7a53752 Remove inadequate assertion check in CTE inlining.
inline_cte() expected to find exactly as many references to the
target CTE as its cterefcount indicates.  While that should be
accurate for the tree as emitted by the parser, there are some
optimizations that occur upstream of here that could falsify it,
notably removal of unused subquery output expressions.

Trying to make the accounting 100% accurate seems expensive and
doomed to future breakage.  It's not really worth it, because
all this code is protecting is downstream assumptions that every
referenced CTE has a plan.  Let's convert those assertions to
regular test-and-elog just in case there's some actual problem,
and then drop the failing assertion.

Per report from Tomas Vondra (thanks also to Richard Guo for
analysis).  Back-patch to v12 where the faulty code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29196a1e-ed47-c7ca-9be2-b1c636816183@enterprisedb.com
2022-04-21 17:58:52 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 24d2b2680a
Remove extraneous blank lines before block-closing braces
These are useless and distracting.  We wouldn't have written the code
with them to begin with, so there's no reason to keep them.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/attachment/133167/0016-Extraneous-blank-lines.patch
2022-04-13 19:16:02 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera ce4f46fdc8
Change mechanism to set up source targetlist in MERGE
We were setting MERGE source subplan's targetlist by expanding the
individual attributes of the source relation completely, early in the
parse analysis phase.  This failed to work when the condition of an
action included a whole-row reference, causing setrefs.c to error out
with
  ERROR:  variable not found in subplan target lists
because at that point there is nothing to resolve the whole-row
reference with.  We can fix this by having preprocess_targetlist expand
the source targetlist for Vars required from the source rel by all
actions.  Moreover, by using this expansion mechanism we can do away
with the targetlist expansion in transformMergeStmt, which is good
because then we no longer pull in columns that aren't needed for
anything.

Add a test case for the problem.

While at it, remove some redundant code in preprocess_targetlist():
MERGE was doing separately what is already being done for UPDATE/DELETE,
so we can just rely on the latter and remove the former.  (The handling
of inherited rels was different for MERGE, but that was a no-longer-
necessary hack.)

Fix outdated, related comments for fix_join_expr also.

Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reported-by: Joe Wildish <joe@lateraljoin.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fab3b90a-914d-46a9-beb0-df011ee39ee5@www.fastmail.com
2022-04-12 09:29:39 +02:00
David Rowley b0e5f02ddc Fix various typos and spelling mistakes in code comments
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-11 20:49:41 +12:00
David Rowley 9d9c02ccd1 Teach planner and executor about monotonic window funcs
Window functions such as row_number() always return a value higher than
the previously returned value for tuples in any given window partition.

Traditionally queries such as;

SELECT * FROM (
   SELECT *, row_number() over (order by c) rn
   FROM t
) t WHERE rn <= 10;

were executed fairly inefficiently.  Neither the query planner nor the
executor knew that once rn made it to 11 that nothing further would match
the outer query's WHERE clause.  It would blindly continue until all
tuples were exhausted from the subquery.

Here we implement means to make the above execute more efficiently.

This is done by way of adding a pg_proc.prosupport function to various of
the built-in window functions and adding supporting code to allow the
support function to inform the planner if the window function is
monotonically increasing, monotonically decreasing, both or neither.  The
planner is then able to make use of that information and possibly allow
the executor to short-circuit execution by way of adding a "run condition"
to the WindowAgg to allow it to determine if some of its execution work
can be skipped.

This "run condition" is not like a normal filter.  These run conditions
are only built using quals comparing values to monotonic window functions.
For monotonic increasing functions, quals making use of the btree
operators for <, <= and = can be used (assuming the window function column
is on the left). You can see here that once such a condition becomes false
that a monotonic increasing function could never make it subsequently true
again.  For monotonically decreasing functions the >, >= and = btree
operators for the given type can be used for run conditions.

The best-case situation for this is when there is a single WindowAgg node
without a PARTITION BY clause.  Here when the run condition becomes false
the WindowAgg node can simply return NULL.  No more tuples will ever match
the run condition.  It's a little more complex when there is a PARTITION
BY clause.  In this case, we cannot return NULL as we must still process
other partitions.  To speed this case up we pull tuples from the outer
plan to check if they're from the same partition and simply discard them
if they are.  When we find a tuple belonging to another partition we start
processing as normal again until the run condition becomes false or we run
out of tuples to process.

When there are multiple WindowAgg nodes to evaluate then this complicates
the situation.  For intermediate WindowAggs we must ensure we always
return all tuples to the calling node.  Any filtering done could lead to
incorrect results in WindowAgg nodes above.  For all intermediate nodes,
we can still save some work when the run condition becomes false.  We've
no need to evaluate the WindowFuncs anymore.  Other WindowAgg nodes cannot
reference the value of these and these tuples will not appear in the final
result anyway.  The savings here are small in comparison to what can be
saved in the top-level WingowAgg, but still worthwhile.

Intermediate WindowAgg nodes never filter out tuples, but here we change
WindowAgg so that the top-level WindowAgg filters out tuples that don't
match the intermediate WindowAgg node's run condition.  Such filters
appear in the "Filter" clause in EXPLAIN for the top-level WindowAgg node.

Here we add prosupport functions to allow the above to work for;
row_number(), rank(), dense_rank(), count(*) and count(expr).  It appears
technically possible to do the same for min() and max(), however, it seems
unlikely to be useful enough, so that's not done here.

Bump catversion

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqvp3At8++yF8ij06sdcoo1S_b2YoaT9D4Nf+MObzsrLQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-08 10:34:36 +12:00
Etsuro Fujita c2bb02bc2e Allow asynchronous execution in more cases.
In commit 27e1f1456, create_append_plan() only allowed the subplan
created from a given subpath to be executed asynchronously when it was
an async-capable ForeignPath.  To extend coverage, this patch handles
cases when the given subpath includes some other Path types as well that
can be omitted in the plan processing, such as a ProjectionPath directly
atop an async-capable ForeignPath, allowing asynchronous execution in
partitioned-scan/partitioned-join queries with non-Var tlist expressions
and more UNION queries.

Andrey Lepikhov and Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Alexander Pyhalov and
Zhihong Yu.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/659c37a8-3e71-0ff2-394c-f04428c76f08%40postgrespro.ru
2022-04-06 15:45:00 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan 9f91344223 Fix comments with "a expression" 2022-03-31 15:45:25 -04:00
Tom Lane f3dd9fe1dd Fix postgres_fdw to check shippability of sort clauses properly.
postgres_fdw would push ORDER BY clauses to the remote side without
verifying that the sort operator is safe to ship.  Moreover, it failed
to print a suitable USING clause if the sort operator isn't default
for the sort expression's type.  The net result of this is that the
remote sort might not have anywhere near the semantics we expect,
which'd be disastrous for locally-performed merge joins in particular.

We addressed similar issues in the context of ORDER BY within an
aggregate function call in commit 7012b132d, but failed to notice
that query-level ORDER BY was broken.  Thus, much of the necessary
logic already existed, but it requires refactoring to be usable
in both cases.

Back-patch to all supported branches.  In HEAD only, remove the
core code's copy of find_em_expr_for_rel, which is no longer used
and really should never have been pushed into equivclass.c in the
first place.

Ronan Dunklau, per report from David Rowley;
reviews by David Rowley, Ranier Vilela, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvr4OeC2DBVY--zVP83-K=bYrTD7F8SZDhN4g+pj2f2S-A@mail.gmail.com
2022-03-31 14:29:48 -04:00
Tomas Vondra db0d67db24 Optimize order of GROUP BY keys
When evaluating a query with a multi-column GROUP BY clause using sort,
the cost may be heavily dependent on the order in which the keys are
compared when building the groups. Grouping does not imply any ordering,
so we're allowed to compare the keys in arbitrary order, and a Hash Agg
leverages this. But for Group Agg, we simply compared keys in the order
as specified in the query. This commit explores alternative ordering of
the keys, trying to find a cheaper one.

In principle, we might generate grouping paths for all permutations of
the keys, and leave the rest to the optimizer. But that might get very
expensive, so we try to pick only a couple interesting orderings based
on both local and global information.

When planning the grouping path, we explore statistics (number of
distinct values, cost of the comparison function) for the keys and
reorder them to minimize comparison costs. Intuitively, it may be better
to perform more expensive comparisons (for complex data types etc.)
last, because maybe the cheaper comparisons will be enough. Similarly,
the higher the cardinality of a key, the lower the probability we’ll
need to compare more keys. The patch generates and costs various
orderings, picking the cheapest ones.

The ordering of group keys may interact with other parts of the query,
some of which may not be known while planning the grouping. E.g. there
may be an explicit ORDER BY clause, or some other ordering-dependent
operation, higher up in the query, and using the same ordering may allow
using either incremental sort or even eliminate the sort entirely.

The patch generates orderings and picks those minimizing the comparison
cost (for various pathkeys), and then adds orderings that might be
useful for operations higher up in the plan (ORDER BY, etc.). Finally,
it always keeps the ordering specified in the query, on the assumption
the user might have additional insights.

This introduces a new GUC enable_group_by_reordering, so that the
optimization may be disabled if needed.

The original patch was proposed by Teodor Sigaev, and later improved and
reworked by Dmitry Dolgov. Reviews by a number of people, including me,
Andrey Lepikhov, Claudio Freire, Ibrar Ahmed and Zhihong Yu.

Author: Dmitry Dolgov, Teodor Sigaev, Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Andrey Lepikhov, Claudio Freire, Ibrar Ahmed, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7c79e6a5-8597-74e8-0671-1c39d124c9d6%40sigaev.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcW_4o2NC0zutLkOJPsFt80megSpX_dVRo6GK9PC-Jx_Ag%40mail.gmail.com
2022-03-31 01:13:33 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 1a36bc9dba SQL/JSON query functions
This introduces the SQL/JSON functions for querying JSON data using
jsonpath expressions. The functions are:

JSON_EXISTS()
JSON_QUERY()
JSON_VALUE()

All of these functions only operate on jsonb. The workaround for now is
to cast the argument to jsonb.

JSON_EXISTS() tests if the jsonpath expression applied to the jsonb
value yields any values. JSON_VALUE() must return a single value, and an
error occurs if it tries to return multiple values. JSON_QUERY() must
return a json object or array, and there are various WRAPPER options for
handling scalar or multi-value results. Both these functions have
options for handling EMPTY and ERROR conditions.

Nikita Glukhov

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
2022-03-29 16:57:13 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 7103ebb7aa
Add support for MERGE SQL command
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a
source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can
conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows -- a task that would otherwise
require multiple PL statements.  For example,

MERGE INTO target AS t
USING source AS s
ON t.tid = s.sid
WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN
  UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta
WHEN MATCHED THEN
  DELETE
WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN
  INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
  DO NOTHING;

MERGE works with regular tables, partitioned tables and inheritance
hierarchies, including column and row security enforcement, as well as
support for row and statement triggers and transition tables therein.

MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful
for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference
to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there
is some overhead.  MERGE can be used from PL/pgSQL.

MERGE does not support targetting updatable views or foreign tables, and
RETURNING clauses are not allowed either.  These limitations are likely
fixable with sufficient effort.  Rewrite rules are also not supported,
but it's not clear that we'd want to support them.

Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231134736.GA25392@alvherre.pgsql
2022-03-28 16:47:48 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan f4fb45d15c SQL/JSON constructors
This patch introduces the SQL/JSON standard constructors for JSON:

JSON()
JSON_ARRAY()
JSON_ARRAYAGG()
JSON_OBJECT()
JSON_OBJECTAGG()

For the most part these functions provide facilities that mimic
existing json/jsonb functions. However, they also offer some useful
additional functionality. In addition to text input, the JSON() function
accepts bytea input, which it will decode and constuct a json value from.
The other functions provide useful options for handling duplicate keys
and null values.

This series of patches will be followed by a consolidated documentation
patch.

Nikita Glukhov

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
2022-03-27 17:03:34 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan f79b803dcc Common SQL/JSON clauses
This introduces some of the building blocks used by the SQL/JSON
constructor and query functions. Specifically, it provides node
executor and grammar support for the FORMAT JSON [ENCODING foo]
clause, and values decorated with it, and for the RETURNING clause.

The following SQL/JSON patches will leverage these.

Nikita Glukhov (who probably deserves an award for perseverance).

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
2022-03-27 17:03:33 -04:00
Tom Lane c2d81ee902 Remove useless variable.
flatten_join_alias_vars_mutator counted attnums, but didn't
do anything with the count (no doubt it did at one time).

Noted by buildfarm member seawasp.
2022-03-27 15:05:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 0bd7af082a Invent recursive_worktable_factor GUC to replace hard-wired constant.
Up to now, the planner estimated the size of a recursive query's
worktable as 10 times the size of the non-recursive term.  It's hard
to see how to do significantly better than that automatically, but
we can give users control over the multiplier to allow tuning for
specific use-cases.  The default behavior remains the same.

Simon Riggs

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-EuaLm4H3g0+BSTYHEGxJj3Kht0R+rJ8vT57Dejnh=_nA@mail.gmail.com
2022-03-24 11:47:41 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 1460fc5942 Revert "Common SQL/JSON clauses"
This reverts commit 865fe4d5df.

This has caused issues with a significant number of buildfarm members
2022-03-22 19:56:14 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 865fe4d5df Common SQL/JSON clauses
This introduces some of the building blocks used by the SQL/JSON
constructor and query functions. Specifically, it provides node
executor and grammar support for the FORMAT JSON [ENCODING foo]
clause, and values decorated with it, and for the RETURNING clause.

The following SQL/JSON patches will leverage these.

Nikita Glukhov (who probably deserves an award for perseverance).

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup. Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu and
Himanshu Upadhyaya.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
2022-03-22 17:32:54 -04:00
Tom Lane 2591ee8ec4 Fix assorted missing logic for GroupingFunc nodes.
The planner needs to treat GroupingFunc like Aggref for many purposes,
in particular with respect to processing of the argument expressions,
which are not to be evaluated at runtime.  A few places hadn't gotten
that memo, notably including subselect.c's processing of outer-level
aggregates.  This resulted in assertion failures or wrong plans for
cases in which a GROUPING() construct references an outer aggregation
level.

Also fix missing special cases for GroupingFunc in cost_qual_eval
(resulting in wrong cost estimates for GROUPING(), although it's
not clear that that would affect plan shapes in practice) and in
ruleutils.c (resulting in excess parentheses in pretty-print mode).

Per bug #17088 from Yaoguang Chen.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Richard Guo, Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17088-e33882b387de7f5c@postgresql.org
2022-03-21 17:44:29 -04:00
Tom Lane d7b5c071dd Don't bother to attach column name lists to RowExprs of named types.
If a RowExpr is marked as returning a named composite type, we aren't
going to consult its colnames list; we'll use the attribute names
shown for the type in pg_attribute.  Hence, skip storing that list,
to save a few nanoseconds when copying the expression tree around.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2950001.1638729947@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-03-17 18:25:44 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 791b1b71da Parse/analyze function renaming
There are three parallel ways to call parse/analyze: with fixed
parameters, with variable parameters, and by supplying your own parser
callback.  Some of the involved functions were confusingly named and
made this API structure more confusing.  This patch renames some
functions to make this clearer:

parse_analyze() -> parse_analyze_fixedparams()
pg_analyze_and_rewrite() -> pg_analyze_and_rewrite_fixedparams()

(Otherwise one might think this variant doesn't accept parameters, but
in fact all three ways accept parameters.)

pg_analyze_and_rewrite_params() -> pg_analyze_and_rewrite_withcb()

(Before, and also when considering pg_analyze_and_rewrite(), one might
think this is the only way to pass parameters.  Moreover, the parser
callback doesn't necessarily need to parse only parameters, it's just
one of the things it could do.)

parse_fixed_parameters() -> setup_parse_fixed_parameters()
parse_variable_parameters() -> setup_parse_variable_parameters()

(These functions don't actually do any parsing, they just set up
callbacks to use during parsing later.)

This patch also adds some const decorations to the fixed-parameters
API, so the distinction from the variable-parameters API is more
clear.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c67ce276-52b4-0239-dc0e-39875bf81840@enterprisedb.com
2022-03-04 14:50:22 +01:00
Tom Lane e5691cc917 Don't use_physical_tlist for an IOS with non-returnable columns.
createplan.c tries to save a runtime projection step by specifying
a scan plan node's output as being exactly the table's columns, or
index's columns in the case of an index-only scan, if there is not a
reason to do otherwise.  This logic did not previously pay attention
to whether an index's columns are returnable.  That worked, sort of
accidentally, until commit 9a3ddeb51 taught setrefs.c to reject plans
that try to read a non-returnable column.  I have no desire to loosen
setrefs.c's new check, so instead adjust use_physical_tlist() to not
try to optimize this way when there are non-returnable column(s).

Per report from Ryan Kelly.  Like the previous patch, back-patch
to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHUie24ddN+pDNw7fkhNrjrwAX=fXXfGZZEHhRuofV_N_ftaSg@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-11 15:24:02 -05:00
David Rowley f9a74c1498 Consider parallel awareness when removing single-child Appends
8edd0e794 added some code to remove Append and MergeAppend nodes when they
contained a single child node.  As it turned out, this was unsafe to do
when the Append/MergeAppend was parallel_aware and the child node was not.
Removing the Append/MergeAppend, in this case, could lead to the child plan
being called multiple times by parallel workers when it was unsafe to do
so.

Here we fix this by just not removing the Append/MergeAppend when the
parallel_aware flag of the parent and child node don't match.

Reported-by: Yura Sokolov
Bug: #17335
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b59605fecb20ba9ea94e70ab60098c237c870628.camel%40postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 12, where 8edd0e794 was first introduced
2022-01-25 21:10:03 +13:00
Michael Paquier 410aa248e5 Fix various typos, grammar and code style in comments and docs
This fixes a set of issues that have accumulated over the past months
(or years) in various code areas.  Most fixes are related to some recent
additions, as of the development of v15.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220124030001.GQ23027@telsasoft.com
2022-01-25 09:40:04 +09:00
Tom Lane dc43fc9b3a Suppress variable-set-but-not-used warning from clang 13.
In the normal configuration where GEQO_DEBUG isn't defined,
recent clang versions have started to complain that geqo_main.c
accumulates the edge_failures count but never does anything
with it.  As a minimal back-patchable fix, insert a void cast
to silence this warning.  (I'd speculated about ripping out the
GEQO_DEBUG logic altogether, but I don't think we'd wish to
back-patch that.)

Per recently-established project policy, this is a candidate
for back-patching into out-of-support branches: it suppresses
an annoying compiler warning but changes no behavior.  Hence,
back-patch all the way to 9.2.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLTSZQwES8VNPmWO9AO0wSeLt36OCPDAZTccT1h7Q7kTQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-23 11:09:00 -05:00
Tomas Vondra 7b65862e22 Correct type of front_pathkey to PathKey
In sort_inner_and_outer we iterate a list of PathKey elements, but the
variable is declared as (List *). This mistake is benign, because we
only pass the pointer to lcons() and never dereference it.

This exists since ~2004, but it's confusing. So fix and backpatch to all
supported branches.

Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bf3a6ea1-a7d8-7211-0669-189d5c169374%40enterprisedb.com
2022-01-23 03:53:18 +01:00
Tom Lane 6478896675 Teach hash_ok_operator() that record_eq is only sometimes hashable.
The need for this was foreseen long ago, but when record_eq
actually became hashable (in commit 01e658fa7), we missed updating
this spot.

Per bug #17363 from Elvis Pranskevichus.  Back-patch to v14 where
the faulty commit came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17363-f6d42fd0d726be02@postgresql.org
2022-01-16 16:39:26 -05:00
Tomas Vondra 269b532aef Add stxdinherit flag to pg_statistic_ext_data
Add pg_statistic_ext_data.stxdinherit flag, so that for each extended
statistics definition we can store two versions of data - one for the
relation alone, one for the whole inheritance tree. This is analogous to
pg_statistic.stainherit, but we failed to include such flag in catalogs
for extended statistics, and we had to work around it (see commits
859b3003de, 36c4bc6e72 and 20b9fa308e).

This changes the relationship between the two catalogs storing extended
statistics objects (pg_statistic_ext and pg_statistic_ext_data). Until
now, there was a simple 1:1 mapping - for each definition there was one
pg_statistic_ext_data row, and this row was inserted while creating the
statistics (and then updated during ANALYZE). With the stxdinherit flag,
we don't know how many rows there will be (child relations may be added
after the statistics object is defined), so there may be up to two rows.

We could make CREATE STATISTICS to always create both rows, but that
seems wasteful - without partitioning we only need stxdinherit=false
rows, and declaratively partitioned tables need only stxdinherit=true.
So we no longer initialize pg_statistic_ext_data in CREATE STATISTICS,
and instead make that a responsibility of ANALYZE. Which is what we do
for regular statistics too.

Patch by me, with extensive improvements and fixes by Justin Pryzby.

Author: Tomas Vondra, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210923212624.GI831%40telsasoft.com
2022-01-16 13:38:01 +01:00
Tomas Vondra 6b94e7a6da Consider fractional paths in generate_orderedappend_paths
When building append paths, we've been looking only at startup and total
costs for the paths. When building fractional paths that may eliminate
the cheapest one, because it may be dominated by two separate paths (one
for startup, one for total cost).

This extends generate_orderedappend_paths() to also consider which paths
have lowest fractional cost. Currently we only consider paths matching
pathkeys - in the future this may be improved by also considering paths
that are only partially sorted, with an incremental sort on top.

Original report of an issue by Arne Roland, patch by me (based on a
suggestion by Tom Lane).

Reviewed-by: Arne Roland, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e8f9ec90-546d-e948-acce-0525f3e92773%40enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1581042da8044e71ada2d6e3a51bf7bb%40index.de
2022-01-12 22:27:24 +01:00
Tom Lane 6867f963e3 Make pg_get_expr() more bulletproof.
Since this function is defined to accept pg_node_tree values, it could
get applied to any nodetree that can appear in a cataloged pg_node_tree
column.  Some such cases can't be supported --- for example, its API
doesn't allow providing referents for more than one relation --- but
we should try to throw a user-facing error rather than an internal
error when encountering such a case.

In support of this, extend expression_tree_walker/mutator to be sure
they'll work on any such node tree (which basically means adding
support for relpartbound node types).  That allows us to run pull_varnos
and check for the case of multiple relations before we start processing
the tree.  The alternative of changing the low-level error thrown for an
out-of-range varno isn't appealing, because that could mask actual bugs
in other usages of ruleutils.

Per report from Justin Pryzby.  This is basically cosmetic, so no
back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211219205422.GT17618@telsasoft.com
2022-01-09 12:43:09 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 27b77ecf9f Update copyright for 2022
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
Tom Lane 8a2e323f20 Handle mixed returnable and non-returnable columns better in IOS.
We can revert the code changes of commit b5febc1d1 now, because
commit 9a3ddeb51 installed a real solution for the difficulty
that b5febc1d1 just dodged, namely that the planner might pick
the wrong one of several index columns nominally containing the
same value.  It only matters which one we pick if we pick one
that's not returnable, and that mistake is now foreclosed.

Although both of the aforementioned commits were back-patched,
I don't feel a need to take any risk by back-patching this one.
The cases that it improves are very corner-ish.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3179992.1641150853@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-01-03 16:12:11 -05:00
Tom Lane 9a3ddeb519 Fix index-only scan plans, take 2.
Commit 4ace45677 failed to fix the problem fully, because the
same issue of attempting to fetch a non-returnable index column
can occur when rechecking the indexqual after using a lossy index
operator.  Moreover, it broke EXPLAIN for such indexquals (which
indicates a gap in our test cases :-().

Revert the code changes of 4ace45677 in favor of adding a new field
to struct IndexOnlyScan, containing a version of the indexqual that
can be executed against the index-returned tuple without using any
non-returnable columns.  (The restrictions imposed by check_index_only
guarantee this is possible, although we may have to recompute indexed
expressions.)  Support construction of that during setrefs.c
processing by marking IndexOnlyScan.indextlist entries as resjunk
if they can't be returned, rather than removing them entirely.
(We could alternatively require setrefs.c to look up the IndexOptInfo
again, but abusing resjunk this way seems like a reasonably safe way
to avoid needing to do that.)

This solution isn't great from an API-stability standpoint: if there
are any extensions out there that build IndexOnlyScan structs directly,
they'll be broken in the next minor releases.  However, only a very
invasive extension would be likely to do such a thing.  There's no
change in the Path representation, so typical planner extensions
shouldn't have a problem.

As before, back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3179992.1641150853@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17350-b5bdcf476e5badbb@postgresql.org
2022-01-03 15:42:27 -05:00
Tom Lane 4ace456776 Fix index-only scan plans when not all index columns can be returned.
If an index has both returnable and non-returnable columns, and one of
the non-returnable columns is an expression using a Var that is in a
returnable column, then a query returning that expression could result
in an index-only scan plan that attempts to read the non-returnable
column, instead of recomputing the expression from the returnable
column as intended.

To fix, redefine the "indextlist" list of an IndexOnlyScan plan node
as containing null Consts in place of any non-returnable columns.
This solves the problem by preventing setrefs.c from falsely matching
to such entries.  The executor is happy since it only cares about the
exposed types of the entries, and ruleutils.c doesn't care because a
correct plan won't reference those entries.  I considered some other
ways to prevent setrefs.c from doing the wrong thing, but this way
seems good since (a) it allows a very localized fix, (b) it makes
the indextlist structure more compact in many cases, and (c) the
indextlist is now a more faithful representation of what the index AM
will actually produce, viz. nulls for any non-returnable columns.

This is easier to hit since we introduced included columns, but it's
possible to construct failing examples without that, as per the
added regression test.  Hence, back-patch to all supported branches.

Per bug #17350 from Louis Jachiet.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17350-b5bdcf476e5badbb@postgresql.org
2022-01-01 16:12:03 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 37b2764593 Some RELKIND macro refactoring
Add more macros to group some RELKIND_* macros:

- RELKIND_HAS_PARTITIONS()
- RELKIND_HAS_TABLESPACE()
- RELKIND_HAS_TABLE_AM()

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a574c8f1-9c84-93ad-a9e5-65233d6fc00f%40enterprisedb.com
2021-12-03 14:08:19 +01:00
Tom Lane 3804539e48 Replace random(), pg_erand48(), etc with a better PRNG API and algorithm.
Standardize on xoroshiro128** as our basic PRNG algorithm, eliminating
a bunch of platform dependencies as well as fundamentally-obsolete PRNG
code.  In addition, this API replacement will ease replacing the
algorithm again in future, should that become necessary.

xoroshiro128** is a few percent slower than the drand48 family,
but it can produce full-width 64-bit random values not only 48-bit,
and it should be much more trustworthy.  It's likely to be noticeably
faster than the platform's random(), depending on which platform you
are thinking about; and we can have non-global state vectors easily,
unlike with random().  It is not cryptographically strong, but neither
are the functions it replaces.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Aleksander Alekseev, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105241211230.165418@pseudo
2021-11-28 21:33:07 -05:00
David Rowley 411137a429 Flush Memoize cache when non-key parameters change, take 2
It's possible that a subplan below a Memoize node contains a parameter
from above the Memoize node.  If this parameter changes then cache entries
may become out-dated due to the new parameter value.

Previously Memoize was mistakenly not aware of this.  We fix this here by
flushing the cache whenever a parameter that's not part of the cache
key changes.

Bug: #17213
Reported by: Elvis Pranskevichus
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17213-988ed34b225a2862@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14, where Memoize was added
2021-11-24 23:29:14 +13:00
David Rowley dad20ad470 Revert "Flush Memoize cache when non-key parameters change"
This reverts commit 1050048a31.
2021-11-24 15:27:43 +13:00
David Rowley 1050048a31 Flush Memoize cache when non-key parameters change
It's possible that a subplan below a Memoize node contains a parameter
from above the Memoize node.  If this parameter changes then cache entries
may become out-dated due to the new parameter value.

Previously Memoize was mistakenly not aware of this.  We fix this here by
flushing the cache whenever a parameter that's not part of the cache
key changes.

Bug: #17213
Reported by: Elvis Pranskevichus
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17213-988ed34b225a2862@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14, where Memoize was added
2021-11-24 14:56:18 +13:00
David Rowley e502150f7d Allow Memoize to operate in binary comparison mode
Memoize would always use the hash equality operator for the cache key
types to determine if the current set of parameters were the same as some
previously cached set.  Certain types such as floating points where -0.0
and +0.0 differ in their binary representation but are classed as equal by
the hash equality operator may cause problems as unless the join uses the
same operator it's possible that whichever join operator is being used
would be able to distinguish the two values.  In which case we may
accidentally return in the incorrect rows out of the cache.

To fix this here we add a binary mode to Memoize to allow it to the
current set of parameters to previously cached values by comparing
bit-by-bit rather than logically using the hash equality operator.  This
binary mode is always used for LATERAL joins and it's used for normal
joins when any of the join operators are not hashable.

Reported-by: Tom Lane
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3004308.1632952496@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 14, where Memoize was added
2021-11-24 10:06:59 +13:00
David Rowley 39a3105678 Fix incorrect hash equality operator bug in Memoize
In v14, because we don't have a field in RestrictInfo to cache both the
left and right type's hash equality operator, we just restrict the scope
of Memoize to only when the left and right types of a RestrictInfo are the
same.

In master we add another field to RestrictInfo and cache both hash
equality operators.

Reported-by: Jaime Casanova
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210929185544.GB24346%40ahch-to
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-11-08 14:40:33 +13:00
Tom Lane 65c6cab136 Avoid O(N^2) behavior in SyncPostCheckpoint().
As in commits 6301c3ada and e9d9ba2a4, avoid doing repetitive
list_delete_first() operations, since that would be expensive when
there are many files waiting to be unlinked.  This is a slightly
larger change than in those cases.  We have to keep the list state
valid for calls to AbsorbSyncRequests(), so it's necessary to invent a
"canceled" field instead of immediately deleting PendingUnlinkEntry
entries.  Also, because we might not be able to process all the
entries, we need a new list primitive list_delete_first_n().

list_delete_first_n() is almost list_copy_tail(), but it modifies the
input List instead of making a new copy.  I found a couple of existing
uses of the latter that could profitably use the new function.  (There
might be more, but the other callers look like they probably shouldn't
overwrite the input List.)

As before, back-patch to v13.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CD2F0E7F-9822-45EC-A411-AE56F14DEA9F@amazon.com
2021-11-02 11:31:54 -04:00
Tom Lane 4d5f651f1d Fix planner error with pulling up subquery expressions into function RTEs.
If a function-in-FROM laterally references the output of some sub-SELECT
earlier in the FROM clause, and we are able to flatten that sub-SELECT
into the outer query, the expression(s) copied into the function RTE
missed being processed by eval_const_expressions.  This'd lead to trouble
and probable crashes at execution if such expressions contained
named-argument function call syntax or functions with defaulted arguments.
The bug is masked if the query contains any explicit JOIN syntax, which
may help explain why we'd not noticed.

Per bug #17227 from Bernd Dorn.  This is an oversight in commit 7266d0997,
so back-patch to v13 where that came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17227-5a28ed1512189fa4@postgresql.org
2021-10-14 12:43:55 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita 700c733128 Add missing word to comment in joinrels.c.
Author: Amit Langote
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BHiwqGQNbtamQ_9DU3osR1XiWR4wxWFZurPmN6zgbdSZDeWmw%40mail.gmail.com
2021-10-07 17:45:00 +09:00
Michael Paquier e767ddcd35 Fix typos and grammar in code comments
Several mistakes have piled in the code comments over the time,
including incorrect grammar, function names and simple typos.  This
commit takes care of a portion of these.

No backpatch is done as this is only cosmetic.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210924215827.GS831@telsasoft.com
2021-09-27 14:21:28 +09:00
Tom Lane a21049fd3f Fix pull_varnos to cope with translated PlaceHolderVars.
Commit 55dc86eca changed pull_varnos to use (if possible) the associated
ph_eval_at for a PlaceHolderVar.  I missed a fine point though: we might
be looking at a PHV in the quals or tlist of a child appendrel, in which
case we need to compute a ph_eval_at value that's been translated in the
same way that the PHV itself has been (cf. adjust_appendrel_attrs).
Fortunately, enough info is available in the PlaceHolderInfo to make
such translation possible without additional outside data, so we don't
need another round of uglification of planner APIs.  This is a little
bit complicated, but since it's a hard-to-hit corner case, I'm not much
worried about adding cycles here.

Per report from Jaime Casanova.  Back-patch to v12, like the previous
commit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210915230959.GB17635@ahch-to
2021-09-17 15:41:16 -04:00
Tom Lane e3ec3c00d8 Remove arbitrary 64K-or-so limit on rangetable size.
Up to now the size of a query's rangetable has been limited by the
constants INNER_VAR et al, which mustn't be equal to any real
rangetable index.  65000 doubtless seemed like enough for anybody,
and it still is orders of magnitude larger than the number of joins
we can realistically handle.  However, we need a rangetable entry
for each child partition that is (or might be) processed by a query.
Queries with a few thousand partitions are getting more realistic,
so that the day when that limit becomes a problem is in sight,
even if it's not here yet.  Hence, let's raise the limit.

Rather than just increase the values of INNER_VAR et al, this patch
adopts the approach of making them small negative values, so that
rangetables could theoretically become as long as INT_MAX.

The bulk of the patch is concerned with changing Var.varno and some
related variables from "Index" (unsigned int) to plain "int".  This
is basically cosmetic, with little actual effect other than to help
debuggers print their values nicely.  As such, I've only bothered
with changing places that could actually see INNER_VAR et al, which
the parser and most of the planner don't.  We do have to be careful
in places that are performing less/greater comparisons on varnos,
but there are very few such places, other than the IS_SPECIAL_VARNO
macro itself.

A notable side effect of this patch is that while it used to be
possible to add INNER_VAR et al to a Bitmapset, that will now
draw an error.  I don't see any likelihood that it wouldn't be a
bug to include these fake varnos in a bitmapset of real varnos,
so I think this is all to the good.

Although this touches outfuncs/readfuncs, I don't think a catversion
bump is required, since stored rules would never contain Vars
with these fake varnos.

Andrey Lepikhov and Tom Lane, after a suggestion by Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/43c7f2f5-1e27-27aa-8c65-c91859d15190@postgrespro.ru
2021-09-15 14:11:21 -04:00
Tom Lane e8638d78a2 Fix planner error with multiple copies of an AlternativeSubPlan.
It's possible for us to copy an AlternativeSubPlan expression node
into multiple places, for example the scan quals of several
partition children.  Then it's possible that we choose a different
one of the alternatives as optimal in each place.  Commit 41efb8340
failed to consider this scenario, so its attempt to remove "unused"
subplans could remove subplans that were still used elsewhere.

Fix by delaying the removal logic until we've examined all the
AlternativeSubPlans in a given query level.  (This does assume that
AlternativeSubPlans couldn't get copied to other query levels, but
for the foreseeable future that's fine; cf qual_is_pushdown_safe.)

Per report from Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.  Back-patch to v14
where the faulty logic came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKcux6==O3NNZC3bZ2prRYv3cjm3_Zw1GfzmOjEVqYN4jub2+Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-14 15:11:21 -04:00
Michael Paquier fd0625c7a9 Clean up some code using "(expr) ? true : false"
All the code paths simplified here were already using a boolean or used
an expression that led to zero or one, making the extra bits
unnecessary.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier, Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210428182936.GE27406@telsasoft.com
2021-09-08 09:44:04 +09:00
Tom Lane 589be6f6c7 Fix missed lock acquisition while inlining new-style SQL functions.
When starting to use a query parsetree loaded from the catalogs,
we must begin by applying AcquireRewriteLocks(), to obtain the same
relation locks that the parser would have gotten if the query were
entered interactively, and to do some other cleanup such as dealing
with later-dropped columns.  New-style SQL functions are just as
subject to this rule as other stored parsetrees; however, of the
places dealing with such functions, only init_sql_fcache had gotten
the memo.  In particular, if we successfully inlined a new-style
set-returning SQL function that contained any relation references,
we'd either get an assertion failure or attempt to use those
relation(s) sans locks.

I also added AcquireRewriteLocks calls to fmgr_sql_validator and
print_function_sqlbody.  Desultory experiments didn't demonstrate any
failures in those, but I suspect that I just didn't try hard enough.
Certainly we don't expect nearby code paths to operate without locks.

On the same logic of it-ought-to-have-the-same-effects-as-the-old-code,
call pg_rewrite_query() in fmgr_sql_validator, too.  It's possible
that neither code path there needs to bother with rewriting, but
doing the analysis to prove that is beyond my goals for today.

Per bug #17161 from Alexander Lakhin.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17161-048a1cdff8422800@postgresql.org
2021-08-31 12:02:36 -04:00
David Rowley 22c4e88ebf Allow parallel DISTINCT
We've supported parallel aggregation since e06a38965.  At the time, we
didn't quite get around to also adding parallel DISTINCT. So, let's do
that now.

This is implemented by introducing a two-phase DISTINCT.  Phase 1 is
performed on parallel workers, rows are made distinct there either by
hashing or by sort/unique.  The results from the parallel workers are
combined and the final distinct phase is performed serially to get rid of
any duplicate rows that appear due to combining rows for each of the
parallel workers.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrjRxVKwQN0he79xS+9wyotFXL=RmoWqGGO2N45Farpgw@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-22 23:31:16 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut 18fea737b5 Change NestPath node to contain JoinPath node
This makes the structure of all JoinPath-derived nodes the same,
independent of whether they have additional fields.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c1097590-a6a4-486a-64b1-e1f9cc0533ce@enterprisedb.com
2021-08-08 18:46:34 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 2226b4189b Change SeqScan node to contain Scan node
This makes the structure of all Scan-derived nodes the same,
independent of whether they have additional fields.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c1097590-a6a4-486a-64b1-e1f9cc0533ce@enterprisedb.com
2021-08-08 18:46:34 +02:00
David Rowley db632fbca3 Allow ordered partition scans in more cases
959d00e9d added the ability to make use of an Append node instead of a
MergeAppend when we wanted to perform a scan of a partitioned table and
the required sort order was the same as the partitioned keys and the
partitioned table was defined in such a way that earlier partitions were
guaranteed to only contain lower-order values than later partitions.
However, previously we didn't allow these ordered partition scans for
LIST partitioned table when there were any partitions that allowed
multiple Datums.  This was a very cheap check to make and we could likely
have done a little better by checking if there were interleaved
partitions, but at the time we didn't have visibility about which
partitions were pruned, so we still may have disallowed cases where all
interleaved partitions were pruned.

Since 475dbd0b7, we now have knowledge of pruned partitions, we can do a
much better job inside partitions_are_ordered().

Here we pass which partitions survived partition pruning into
partitions_are_ordered() and, for LIST partitioning, have it check to see
if any live partitions exist that are also in the new "interleaved_parts"
field defined in PartitionBoundInfo.

For RANGE partitioning we can relax the code which caused the partitions
to be unordered if a DEFAULT partition existed.  Since we now know which
partitions were pruned, partitions_are_ordered() now returns true when the
DEFAULT partition was pruned.

Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrdoN_sXU52i=QDXe2k3WAo=EVry29r2+Tq2WYcn2xhEA@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-03 12:25:52 +12:00
David Rowley 475dbd0b71 Track a Bitmapset of non-pruned partitions in RelOptInfo
For partitioned tables with large numbers of partitions where queries are
able to prune all but a very small number of partitions, the time spent in
the planner looping over RelOptInfo.part_rels checking for non-NULL
RelOptInfos could become a large portion of the overall planning time.

Here we add a Bitmapset that records the non-pruned partitions.  This
allows us to more efficiently skip the pruned partitions by looping over
the Bitmapset.

This will cause a very slight slow down in cases where no or not many
partitions could be pruned, however, those cases are already slow to plan
anyway and the overhead of looping over the Bitmapset would be
unmeasurable when compared with the other tasks such as path creation for
a large number of partitions.

Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqnPx6JnUuPwaf5ao38zczrAb9mxt9gj4U1EKFfd4AqLA@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-03 11:47:24 +12:00
David Rowley 2b58f894e5 Fix incorrect comment for get_agg_clause_costs
Adjust the header comment in get_agg_clause_costs so that it matches what
the function currently does.  No recursive searching has been done ever
since 0a2bc5d61.  It also does not determine the aggtranstype like the
comment claimed. That's all done in preprocess_aggref().
preprocess_aggref also now determines the numOrderedAggs, so remove the
mention that get_agg_clause_costs also calculates "counts".

Normally, since this is just an adjustment of a comment it might not be
worth back-patching, but since this code is new to PG14 and that version
is still in beta, then it seems worth having the comments match.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrrGrTJFPELrjx0CnDtz9B7Jy2XYW3Z2BKifAWLSaJYwQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-though: 14
2021-07-26 14:55:31 +12:00
Tom Lane 28d936031a Get rid of artificial restriction on hash table sizes on Windows.
The point of introducing the hash_mem_multiplier GUC was to let users
reproduce the old behavior of hash aggregation, i.e. that it could use
more than work_mem at need.  However, the implementation failed to get
the job done on Win64, where work_mem is clamped to 2GB to protect
various places that calculate memory sizes using "long int".  As
written, the same clamp was applied to hash_mem.  This resulted in
severe performance regressions for queries requiring a bit more than
2GB for hash aggregation, as they now spill to disk and there's no
way to stop that.

Getting rid of the work_mem restriction seems like a good idea, but
it's a big job and could not conceivably be back-patched.  However,
there's only a fairly small number of places that are concerned with
the hash_mem value, and it turns out to be possible to remove the
restriction there without too much code churn or any ABI breaks.
So, let's do that for now to fix the regression, and leave the
larger task for another day.

This patch does introduce a bit more infrastructure that should help
with the larger task, namely pg_bitutils.h support for working with
size_t values.

Per gripe from Laurent Hasson.  Back-patch to v13 where the
behavior change came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/997817.1627074924@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MN2PR15MB25601E80A9B6D1BA6F592B1985E39@MN2PR15MB2560.namprd15.prod.outlook.com
2021-07-25 14:02:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 2b00db4fb0 Use l*_node() family of functions where appropriate
Instead of castNode(…, lfoo(…))

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87eecahraj.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2021-07-19 08:20:24 +02:00
Tom Lane a49d081235 Replace explicit PIN entries in pg_depend with an OID range test.
As of v14, pg_depend contains almost 7000 "pin" entries recording
the OIDs of built-in objects.  This is a fair amount of bloat for
every database, and it adds time to pg_depend lookups as well as
initdb.  We can get rid of all of those entries in favor of an OID
range check, i.e. "OIDs below FirstUnpinnedObjectId are pinned".

(template1 and the public schema are exceptions.  Those exceptions
are now wired into IsPinnedObject() instead of initdb's code for
filling pg_depend, but it's the same amount of cruft either way.)

The contents of pg_shdepend are modified likewise.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3737988.1618451008@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-15 11:41:47 -04:00
Tom Lane be850f1822 Copy a Param's location field when replacing it with a Const.
This allows Param substitution to produce just the same result
as writing a constant value literally would have done.  While
it hardly matters so far as the current core code is concerned,
extensions might take more interest in node location fields.

Julien Rouhaud

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170311220932.GJ15188@nol.local
2021-07-14 14:15:12 -04:00