contrib/intarray considers "arraycol <@ constant-array" to be indexable,
but its GiST opclass code fails to reliably find index entries for empty
array values (which of course should trivially match such queries).
This is because the test condition to see whether we should descend
through a non-leaf node is wrong.
Unfortunately, empty array entries could be anywhere in the index,
as these index opclasses are currently designed. So there's no way
to fix this except by lobotomizing <@ indexscans to scan the whole
index ... which is what this patch does. That's pretty unfortunate:
the performance is now actually worse than a seqscan, in most cases.
We'd be better off to remove <@ from the GiST opclasses entirely,
and perhaps a future non-back-patchable patch will do so.
In the meantime, applications whose performance is adversely impacted
have a couple of options. They could switch to a GIN index, which
doesn't have this bug, or they could replace "arraycol <@ constant-array"
with "arraycol <@ constant-array AND arraycol && constant-array".
That will provide about the same performance as before, and it will find
all non-empty subsets of the given constant-array, which is all that
could reliably be expected of the query before.
While at it, add some more regression test cases to improve code
coverage of contrib/intarray.
In passing, adjust resize_intArrayType so that when it's returning an
empty array, it uses construct_empty_array for that rather than
cowboy hacking on the input array. While the hack produces an array
that looks valid for most purposes, it isn't bitwise equal to empty
arrays produced by other code paths, which could have subtle odd
effects. I don't think this code path is performance-critical
enough to justify such shortcuts. (Back-patch this part only as far
as v11; before commit 01783ac36 we were not careful about this in
other intarray code paths either.)
Back-patch the <@ fixes to all supported versions, since this was
broken from day one.
Patch by me; thanks to Alexander Korotkov for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/458.1565114141@sss.pgh.pa.us
Perl has multiple internal representations of "undef", and just
testing for SvTYPE(x) == SVt_NULL doesn't recognize all of them,
leading to "cannot transform this Perl type to jsonb" errors.
Use the approved test SvOK() instead.
Report and patch by Ivan Panchenko. Back-patch to v11 where
this module was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1564783533.324795401@f193.i.mail.ru
When piling up loading of modules using check_password_hook_type,
loading passwordcheck would remove any trace of a previously-loaded
hook. Unloading the module would also cause previous hooks to be
entirely gone.
Reported-by: Rafael Castro
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15932-78f48f9ef166778c@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.4
As of Fedora 30, it seems that the system-provided macros for setting
up user privileges in SELinux policies don't grant the ability to read
/etc/passwd, as they formerly did. This restriction breaks psql
(which tries to use getpwuid() to obtain the user name it's running
under) and thereby the contrib/sepgsql regression test. Add explicit
specifications that we need the right to read /etc/passwd.
Mike Palmiotto, per a report from me. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23856.1563381159@sss.pgh.pa.us
When we already know the length that we're going to append, then it
makes sense to use appendBinaryStringInfo instead of
appendStringInfoString so that the append can be performed with a simple
memcpy() using a known length rather than having to first perform a
strlen() call to obtain the length.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8+FRAM1s5+mAa3isajeEoAaicJ=4e0WzrH3tAusbbiMQ@mail.gmail.com
Solely relying on a relation's reltuples/relpages estimate to size the
Bloom filters used by amcheck verification makes verification less
effective when the estimates are very stale. In extreme cases,
verification options that use Bloom filters internally could be totally
ineffective, without users receiving any clear indication that certain
types of corruption might easily be missed.
To fix, use RelationGetNumberOfBlocks() instead of relpages to size the
downlink block Bloom filter. Use the same RelationGetNumberOfBlocks()
value to derive a minimum size for the heapallindexed Bloom filter,
rather than completely trusting reltuples. Verification will still be
reasonably effective when the projected/estimated number of Bloom filter
elements is at least 1/5 of the final number of elements, which is
assured by the new sizing logic.
Reported-By: Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzk0ke2J42KrNYBKu0Xovjy-sU5ub7PWjgpbsKdAQcL4OA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 11-, where downlink/heapallindexed verification were added.
The aggregate-order difference explained in my previous commit
turns out to also affect the order of log entries emitted in the
contrib/sepgsql regression test. Per buildfarm.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21272.1563318411@sss.pgh.pa.us
This is numbered take 7, and addresses a set of issues around:
- Fixes for typos and incorrect reference names.
- Removal of unneeded comments.
- Removal of unreferenced functions and structures.
- Fixes regarding variable name consistency.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10bfd4ac-3e7c-40ab-2b2e-355ed15495e8@gmail.com
Originally, Postgres Lists were a more or less exact reimplementation of
Lisp lists, which consist of chains of separately-allocated cons cells,
each having a value and a next-cell link. We'd hacked that once before
(commit d0b4399d8) to add a separate List header, but the data was still
in cons cells. That makes some operations -- notably list_nth() -- O(N),
and it's bulky because of the next-cell pointers and per-cell palloc
overhead, and it's very cache-unfriendly if the cons cells end up
scattered around rather than being adjacent.
In this rewrite, we still have List headers, but the data is in a
resizable array of values, with no next-cell links. Now we need at
most two palloc's per List, and often only one, since we can allocate
some values in the same palloc call as the List header. (Of course,
extending an existing List may require repalloc's to enlarge the array.
But this involves just O(log N) allocations not O(N).)
Of course this is not without downsides. The key difficulty is that
addition or deletion of a list entry may now cause other entries to
move, which it did not before.
For example, that breaks foreach() and sister macros, which historically
used a pointer to the current cons-cell as loop state. We can repair
those macros transparently by making their actual loop state be an
integer list index; the exposed "ListCell *" pointer is no longer state
carried across loop iterations, but is just a derived value. (In
practice, modern compilers can optimize things back to having just one
loop state value, at least for simple cases with inline loop bodies.)
In principle, this is a semantics change for cases where the loop body
inserts or deletes list entries ahead of the current loop index; but
I found no such cases in the Postgres code.
The change is not at all transparent for code that doesn't use foreach()
but chases lists "by hand" using lnext(). The largest share of such
code in the backend is in loops that were maintaining "prev" and "next"
variables in addition to the current-cell pointer, in order to delete
list cells efficiently using list_delete_cell(). However, we no longer
need a previous-cell pointer to delete a list cell efficiently. Keeping
a next-cell pointer doesn't work, as explained above, but we can improve
matters by changing such code to use a regular foreach() loop and then
using the new macro foreach_delete_current() to delete the current cell.
(This macro knows how to update the associated foreach loop's state so
that no cells will be missed in the traversal.)
There remains a nontrivial risk of code assuming that a ListCell *
pointer will remain good over an operation that could now move the list
contents. To help catch such errors, list.c can be compiled with a new
define symbol DEBUG_LIST_MEMORY_USAGE that forcibly moves list contents
whenever that could possibly happen. This makes list operations
significantly more expensive so it's not normally turned on (though it
is on by default if USE_VALGRIND is on).
There are two notable API differences from the previous code:
* lnext() now requires the List's header pointer in addition to the
current cell's address.
* list_delete_cell() no longer requires a previous-cell argument.
These changes are somewhat unfortunate, but on the other hand code using
either function needs inspection to see if it is assuming anything
it shouldn't, so it's not all bad.
Programmers should be aware of these significant performance changes:
* list_nth() and related functions are now O(1); so there's no
major access-speed difference between a list and an array.
* Inserting or deleting a list element now takes time proportional to
the distance to the end of the list, due to moving the array elements.
(However, it typically *doesn't* require palloc or pfree, so except in
long lists it's probably still faster than before.) Notably, lcons()
used to be about the same cost as lappend(), but that's no longer true
if the list is long. Code that uses lcons() and list_delete_first()
to maintain a stack might usefully be rewritten to push and pop at the
end of the list rather than the beginning.
* There are now list_insert_nth...() and list_delete_nth...() functions
that add or remove a list cell identified by index. These have the
data-movement penalty explained above, but there's no search penalty.
* list_concat() and variants now copy the second list's data into
storage belonging to the first list, so there is no longer any
sharing of cells between the input lists. The second argument is
now declared "const List *" to reflect that it isn't changed.
This patch just does the minimum needed to get the new implementation
in place and fix bugs exposed by the regression tests. As suggested
by the foregoing, there's a fair amount of followup work remaining to
do.
Also, the ENABLE_LIST_COMPAT macros are finally removed in this
commit. Code using those should have been gone a dozen years ago.
Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley, Jesper Pedersen, and others
for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11587.1550975080@sss.pgh.pa.us
This adds a built-in function to generate UUIDs.
PostgreSQL hasn't had a built-in function to generate a UUID yet,
relying on external modules such as uuid-ossp and pgcrypto to provide
one. Now that we have a strong random number generator built-in, we
can easily provide a version 4 (random) UUID generation function.
This patch takes the existing function gen_random_uuid() from pgcrypto
and makes it a built-in function. The pgcrypto implementation now
internally redirects to the built-in one.
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6a65610c-46fc-2323-6b78-e8086340a325@2ndquadrant.com
Performance of a SELECT FOR UPDATE may be quite distinct from the
non-UPDATE version of the query, so treat all of the FOR UPDATE clause
as being significant for distinguishing queries.
Andrew Gierth and Vik Fearing, reviewed by Sergei Kornilov, Thomas
Munro, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h8e4hfwv.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
This addresses a couple of issues in the code:
- Typos and inconsistencies in comments and function declarations.
- Removal of unreferenced function declarations.
- Removal of unnecessary compile flags.
- A cleanup error in regressplans.sh.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0c991fdf-2670-1997-c027-772a420c4604@gmail.com
This changes various places where appendPQExpBuffer was used in places
where it was possible to use appendPQExpBufferStr, and likewise for
appendStringInfo and appendStringInfoString. This is really just a
stylistic improvement, but there are also small performance gains to be
had from doing this.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9P=M-3ULmPvr8iCno8yvfDViHibJjpriHU8+SXUgeZ=w@mail.gmail.com
Previously, in the loop in postgresAcquireSampleRowsFunc() to iterate
fetching rows from a given remote table, we redundantly 1) determined the
fetch size by parsing the table's server/table-level options and then 2)
constructed the fetch command; remove that redundancy.
Author: Etsuro Fujita
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK17_urk9qkLV65_iYMFw64z5qhdfhY=tMVV6Jg4KNYx8+w@mail.gmail.com
In commit 18555b132 we tentatively established a rule that regression
tests should use names containing "regression" for databases, and names
starting with "regress_" for all other globally-visible object names, so
as to circumscribe the side-effects that "make installcheck" could have on
an existing installation. However, no enforcement mechanism was created,
so it's unsurprising that some new violations have crept in since then.
In fact, a whole new *category* of violations has crept in, to wit we now
also have globally-visible subscription and replication origin names, and
"make installcheck" could very easily clobber user-created objects of
those types. So it's past time to do something about this.
This commit sanitizes the tests enough that they will pass (i.e. not
generate any visible warnings) with the enforcement mechanism I'll add
in the next commit. There are some TAP tests that still trigger the
warnings, but the warnings do not cause test failure. Since these tests
do not actually run against a pre-existing installation, there's no need
to worry whether they could conflict with user-created objects.
The problem with rolenames.sql testing special role names like "user"
is still there, and is dealt with only very cosmetically in this patch
(by hiding the warnings :-(). What we actually need to do to be safe is
to take that test script out of "make installcheck" altogether, but that
seems like material for a separate patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16638.1468620817@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit aa09cd242 modified estimate_path_cost_size() so that it reuses
cached costs of a basic foreign path for a given foreign-base/join
relation when costing pre-sorted foreign paths for that relation, but it
incorrectly re-computed retrieved_rows, an estimated number of rows
fetched from the remote side, which is needed for costing both the basic
and pre-sorted foreign paths. To fix, handle retrieved_rows the same way
as the cached costs: store in that relation's fpinfo the retrieved_rows
estimate computed for costing the basic foreign path, and reuse it when
costing the pre-sorted foreign paths. Also, reuse the rows/width
estimates stored in that relation's fpinfo when costing the pre-sorted
foreign paths, to make the code consistent.
In commit ffab494a4, to extend the costing mentioned above to the
foreign-grouping case, I made a change to add_foreign_grouping_paths() to
store in a given foreign-grouped relation's RelOptInfo the rows estimate
for that relation for reuse, but this patch makes that change unnecessary
since we already store the row estimate in that relation's fpinfo, which
this patch reuses when costing a foreign path for that relation with the
sortClause ordering; remove that change.
In passing, fix thinko in commit 7012b132d: in estimate_path_cost_size(),
the width estimate for a given foreign-grouped relation to be stored in
that relation's fpinfo was reset incorrectly when costing a basic foreign
path for that relation with local stats.
Apply the patch to HEAD only to avoid destabilizing existing plan choices.
Author: Etsuro Fujita
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK17jaJLPDEkgnP2VmkOg=5wT8YQ1CqssU8JRpZ_NSE+dqQ@mail.gmail.com
Previously, in postgresPlanForeignModify, we planned an UPDATE operation
on a foreign table so that we transmit only columns that were explicitly
targets of the UPDATE, so as to avoid unnecessary data transmission, but
if there were BEFORE ROW UPDATE triggers on the foreign table, those
triggers might change values for non-target columns, in which case we
would miss sending changed values for those columns. Prevent optimizing
away transmitting all columns if there are BEFORE ROW UPDATE triggers on
the foreign table.
This is an oversight in commit 7cbe57c34 which added triggers on foreign
tables, so apply the patch all the way back to 9.4 where that came in.
Author: Shohei Mochizuki
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201905270152.x4R1q3qi014550@toshiba.co.jp
Descriptions of pg_trgm GUC options have % replaced with %% like it was
a printf-like format. But that's not needed since they are just plain strings.
This commit fixed that. Backpatch to last supported version since this error
present from the beginning.
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAgPKODUsu9gqUFiNqEOAqedStxJ-a0sapsJXWWAVp%3Dxg%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
It's harmless to call PQfreemem() with a NULL argument, so the only
consequence was that if allocating 'schema' failed, but allocating 'table'
or 'field' succeeded, we would leak a bit of memory. That's highly
unlikely to happen, so this is just academical, but let's get it right.
Per bug #15838 from Timur Birsh. Backpatch back to 9.5, where the
PQfreemem() calls were introduced.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/15838-3221652c72c5e69d@postgresql.org
A parallel worker process should not be making any decisions of its
own about whether to auto-explain. If the parent session process
passed down flags asking for instrumentation data, do that, otherwise
not. Trying to enable instrumentation anyway leads to bugs like the
"could not find key N in shm TOC" failure reported in bug #15821
from Christian Hofstaedtler.
We can implement this cheaply by piggybacking on the existing logic
for not doing anything when we've chosen not to sample a statement.
While at it, clean up some tin-eared coding related to the sampling
feature, including an off-by-one error that meant that asking for 1.0
sampling rate didn't actually result in sampling every statement.
Although the specific case reported here only manifested in >= v11,
I believe that related misbehaviors can be demonstrated in any version
that has parallel query; and the off-by-one error is certainly there
back to 9.6 where that feature was added. So back-patch to 9.6.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15821-5eb422e980594075@postgresql.org
Perl likes to redefine the _() macro:
#ifdef CAN_PROTOTYPE
#define _(args) args
#else ...
There was lots not to like about the way we dealt with this before:
1. Instead of taking care of the conflict centrally in plperl.h, we
expected every one of its ever-growing number of includers to do so.
This is duplicative and error-prone in itself, plus it means that
plperl.h fails to meet the expectation of being compilable standalone,
resulting in macro-redefinition warnings in cpluspluscheck.
2. We left _() with its Perl definition, meaning that if someone tried
to use it in any Perl-related extension, it would silently fail to
provide run-time translation. I don't see any live bugs of this ilk,
but it's clearly a hard-to-notice bug waiting to happen.
So fix that by centralizing the cleanup logic, making it match what
we're already doing for other macro conflicts with Perl. Since we only
expect plperl.h to be included by extensions not core code, we should
redefine _() as dgettext() not gettext().
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
75445c1 has caused various failures in tests across the tree after
updating some error messages, so fix the newly-expected output.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8332.1558048838@sss.pgh.pa.us
The term "item pointer" should not be used to refer to ItemIdData
variables, since that is needlessly ambiguous. Only
ItemPointerData/ItemPointer variables should be called item pointers.
To fix, establish the convention that ItemIdData variables should always
be referred to either as "item identifiers" or "line pointers". The
term "item identifier" already predominates in docs and translatable
messages, and so should be the preferred alternative there.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=c=MZQjUzde3o9+2PLAPuHTpVZPPdYxN=E4ndQ2--8ew@mail.gmail.com
In commit 7012b132d0, which added support for aggregate pushdown in
postgres_fdw, the expense of evaluating the final scan/join target
computed by make_group_input_target() was not accounted for at all in
costing aggregate pushdown paths with local statistics. The right fix
for this would be to have a separate upper stage to adjust the final
scan/join relation (see comments for apply_scanjoin_target_to_paths());
but for now, fix by adding the tlist eval cost when costing aggregate
pushdown paths with local statistics.
Apply this to HEAD only to avoid destabilizing existing plan choices.
Author: Etsuro Fujita
Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5C66A056.60007%40lab.ntt.co.jp
The right way for IsCatalogRelation/Class to behave is to return true
for OIDs less than FirstBootstrapObjectId (not FirstNormalObjectId),
without any of the ad-hoc fooling around with schema membership.
The previous code was wrong because (1) it claimed that
information_schema tables were not catalog relations but their toast
tables were, which is silly; and (2) if you dropped and recreated
information_schema, which is a supported operation, the behavior
changed. That's even sillier. With this definition, "catalog
relations" are exactly the ones traceable to the postgres.bki data,
which seems like what we want.
With this simplification, we don't actually need access to the pg_class
tuple to identify a catalog relation; we only need its OID. Hence,
replace IsCatalogClass with "IsCatalogRelationOid(oid)". But keep
IsCatalogRelation as a convenience function.
This allows fixing some arguably-wrong semantics in contrib/sepgsql and
ReindexRelationConcurrently, which were using an IsSystemNamespace test
where what they really should be using is IsCatalogRelationOid. The
previous coding failed to protect toast tables of system catalogs, and
also was not on board with the general principle that user-created tables
do not become catalogs just by virtue of being renamed into pg_catalog.
We can also get rid of a messy hack in ReindexMultipleTables.
While we're at it, also rename IsSystemNamespace to IsCatalogNamespace,
because the previous name invited confusion with the more expansive
semantics used by IsSystemRelation/Class.
Also improve the comments in catalog.c.
There are a few remaining places in replication-related code that are
special-casing OIDs below FirstNormalObjectId. I'm inclined to think
those are wrong too, and if there should be any special case it should
just extend to FirstBootstrapObjectId. But first we need to debate
whether a FOR ALL TABLES publication should include information_schema.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21697.1557092753@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15150.1557257111@sss.pgh.pa.us
This feature was using a process local map to track the first few blocks
in the relation. The map was reset each time we get the block with enough
freespace. It was discussed that it would be better to track this map on
a per-relation basis in relcache and then invalidate the same whenever
vacuum frees up some space in the page or when FSM is created. The new
design would be better both in terms of API design and performance.
List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:
06c8a5090e Improve code comments in b0eaa4c51b.
13e8643bfc During pg_upgrade, conditionally skip transfer of FSMs.
6f918159a9 Add more tests for FSM.
9c32e4c350 Clear the local map when not used.
29d108cdec Update the documentation for FSM behavior..
08ecdfe7e5 Make FSM test portable.
b0eaa4c51b Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190416180452.3pm6uegx54iitbt5@alap3.anarazel.de
When reindexing individual indexes on pg_class it was possible to
either trigger an assertion failure:
TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(!ReindexIsProcessingIndex(((index)->rd_id)))
That's because reindex_index() called SetReindexProcessing() - which
enables an asserts ensuring no index insertions happen into the index
- before calling RelationSetNewRelfilenode(). That not correct for
indexes on pg_class, because RelationSetNewRelfilenode() updates the
relevant pg_class row, which needs to update the indexes.
The are two reasons this wasn't noticed earlier. Firstly the bug
doesn't trigger when reindexing all of pg_class, as reindex_relation
has code "hiding" all yet-to-be-reindexed indexes. Secondly, the bug
only triggers when the the update to pg_class doesn't turn out to be a
HOT update - otherwise there's no index insertion to trigger the
bug. Most of the time there's enough space, making this bug hard to
trigger.
To fix, move RelationSetNewRelfilenode() to before the
SetReindexProcessing() (and, together with some other code, to outside
of the PG_TRY()).
To make sure the error checking intended by SetReindexProcessing() is
more robust, modify CatalogIndexInsert() to check
ReindexIsProcessingIndex() even when the update is a HOT update.
Also add a few regression tests for REINDEXing of system catalogs.
The last two improvements would have prevented some of the issues
fixed in 5c1560606d from being introduced in the first place.
Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Diagnosed-By: Tom Lane and Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190418011430.GA19133@paquier.xyz
Backpatch: 9.4-, the bug is present in all branches
foreign_grouping_ok() is willing to put fairly arbitrary expressions into
the targetlist of a remote SELECT that's doing grouping or aggregation on
the remote side, including expressions that have no foreign component to
them at all. This is possibly a bit dubious from an efficiency standpoint;
but it rises to the level of a crash-causing bug if the expression is just
a Param or non-foreign Var. In that case, the expression will necessarily
also appear in the fdw_exprs list of values we need to send to the remote
server, and then setrefs.c's set_foreignscan_references will mistakenly
replace the fdw_exprs entry with a Var referencing the targetlist result.
The root cause of this problem is bad design in commit e7cb7ee14: it put
logic into set_foreignscan_references that IMV is postgres_fdw-specific,
and yet this bug shows that it isn't postgres_fdw-specific enough. The
transformation being done on fdw_exprs assumes that fdw_exprs is to be
evaluated with the fdw_scan_tlist as input, which is not how postgres_fdw
uses it; yet it could be the right thing for some other FDW. (In the
bigger picture, setrefs.c has no business assuming this for the other
expression fields of a ForeignScan either.)
The right fix therefore would be to expand the FDW API so that the
FDW could inform setrefs.c how it intends to evaluate these various
expressions. We can't change that in the back branches though, and we
also can't just summarily change setrefs.c's behavior there, or we're
likely to break external FDWs.
As a stopgap, therefore, hack up postgres_fdw so that it won't attempt
to send targetlist entries that look exactly like the fdw_exprs entries
they'd produce. In most cases this actually produces a superior plan,
IMO, with less data needing to be transmitted and returned; so we probably
ought to think harder about whether we should ship tlist expressions at
all when they don't contain any foreign Vars or Aggs. But that's an
optimization not a bug fix so I left it for later. One case where this
produces an inferior plan is where the expression in question is actually
a GROUP BY expression: then the restriction prevents us from using remote
grouping. It might be possible to work around that (since that would
reduce to group-by-a-constant on the remote side); but it seems like a
pretty unlikely corner case, so I'm not sure it's worth expending effort
solely to improve that. In any case the right long-term answer is to fix
the API as sketched above, and then revert this hack.
Per bug #15781 from Sean Johnston. Back-patch to v10 where the problem
was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15781-2601b1002bad087c@postgresql.org
Tom Lane
Michael Paquier
David Rowley
Peter Geoghegan
Jeff Davis
Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Gierth
Etsuro Fujita
Magnus Hagander
Alexander Korotkov
Noah Misch
Heikki Linnakangas
Amit Kapila
Andres Freund