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Andres Freund a9c35cf85c Change function call information to be variable length.
Before this change FunctionCallInfoData, the struct arguments etc for
V1 function calls are stored in, always had space for
FUNC_MAX_ARGS/100 arguments, storing datums and their nullness in two
arrays.  For nearly every function call 100 arguments is far more than
needed, therefore wasting memory. Arg and argnull being two separate
arrays also guarantees that to access a single argument, two
cachelines have to be touched.

Change the layout so there's a single variable-length array with pairs
of value / isnull. That drastically reduces memory consumption for
most function calls (on x86-64 a two argument function now uses
64bytes, previously 936 bytes), and makes it very likely that argument
value and its nullness are on the same cacheline.

Arguments are stored in a new NullableDatum struct, which, due to
padding, needs more memory per argument than before. But as usually
far fewer arguments are stored, and individual arguments are cheaper
to access, that's still a clear win.  It's likely that there's other
places where conversion to NullableDatum arrays would make sense,
e.g. TupleTableSlots, but that's for another commit.

Because the function call information is now variable-length
allocations have to take the number of arguments into account. For
heap allocations that can be done with SizeForFunctionCallInfoData(),
for on-stack allocations there's a new LOCAL_FCINFO(name, nargs) macro
that helps to allocate an appropriately sized and aligned variable.

Some places with stack allocation function call information don't know
the number of arguments at compile time, and currently variably sized
stack allocations aren't allowed in postgres. Therefore allow for
FUNC_MAX_ARGS space in these cases. They're not that common, so for
now that seems acceptable.

Because of the need to allocate FunctionCallInfo of the appropriate
size, older extensions may need to update their code. To avoid subtle
breakages, the FunctionCallInfoData struct has been renamed to
FunctionCallInfoBaseData. Most code only references FunctionCallInfo,
so that shouldn't cause much collateral damage.

This change is also a prerequisite for more efficient expression JIT
compilation (by allocating the function call information on the stack,
allowing LLVM to optimize it away); previously the size of the call
information caused problems inside LLVM's optimizer.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180605172952.x34m5uz6ju6enaem@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-26 14:17:52 -08:00
Andres Freund 63746189b2 Change snapshot type to be determined by enum rather than callback.
This is in preparation for allowing the same snapshot be used for
different table AMs. With the current callback based approach we would
need one callback for each supported AM, which clearly would not be
extensible.  Thus add a new Snapshot->snapshot_type field, and move
the dispatch into HeapTupleSatisfiesVisibility() (which is now a
function). Later work will then dispatch calls to
HeapTupleSatisfiesVisibility() and other AMs visibility functions
depending on the type of the table.  The central SnapshotType enum
also seems like a good location to centralize documentation about the
intended behaviour of various types of snapshots.

As tqual.h isn't included by bufmgr.h any more (as HeapTupleSatisfies*
isn't referenced by TestForOldSnapshot() anymore) a few files now need
to include it directly.

Author: Andres Freund, loosely based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsql
2019-01-21 17:03:15 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut a9e5f8e781 Exclude temporary directories from pgindent
Exclude tmp_check and tmp_install from pgindent.  In a fully-built
tree, pgindent would spend a lot of time digging through these
directories and ends up re-indenting installed header files.
2018-10-29 11:39:44 +01:00
Tom Lane b09a64d602 Add missing pg_description strings for pg_type entries.
I noticed that all non-composite, non-array entries in pg_type.dat
had descr strings, except for "json" and the pseudo-types.  The
lack for json seems certainly an oversight, and there's surely
little reason to not have entries for the pseudo-types either.
So add some.

"make reformat-dat-files" turned up some formatting issues in
pg_amop.dat, too, so fix those in passing.

No catversion bump since the backend doesn't care too much what is
in pg_description.
2018-09-20 16:06:18 -04:00
Michael Paquier 9ebe0572ce Refactor cluster_rel() to handle more options
This extends cluster_rel() in such a way that more options can be added
in the future, which will reduce the amount of chunk code for an
upcoming SKIP_LOCKED aimed for VACUUM.  As VACUUM FULL is a different
flavor of CLUSTER, we want to make that extensible to ease integration.

This only reworks the API and its callers, without providing anything
user-facing.  Two options are present now: verbose mode and relation
recheck when doing the cluster command work across multiple
transactions.  This could be used as well as a base to extend the
grammar of CLUSTER later on.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180723031058.GE2854@paquier.xyz
2018-07-24 11:37:32 +09:00
Robert Haas 32df1c9afa Add subtransaction handling for table synchronization workers.
Since the old logic was completely unaware of subtransactions, a
change made in a subsequently-aborted subtransaction would still cause
workers to be stopped at toplevel transaction commit.  Fix that by
managing a stack of worker lists rather than just one.

Amit Khandekar and Robert Haas

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9eaG_mWqiOTA2LfAug-VRNn1hrhf50Xi1YroxL37QkZNg@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-16 17:33:22 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 2c64d20048 Update typedefs list 2018-06-30 12:07:27 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan af616ce483 Add a script to detect perl compile time errors and warnings
Also add a function that centralizes the logic for locating all our perl
files and use it in pgperlcritic and pgperltidy as well as the new
pgperlcheck.
2018-06-11 14:47:20 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 3a7cc727c7 Don't fall off the end of perl functions
This complies with the perlcritic policy
Subroutines::RequireFinalReturn, which is a severity 4 policy. Since we
only currently check at severity level 5, the policy is raised to that
level until we move to level 4 or lower, so that any new infringements
will be caught.

A small cosmetic piece of tidying of the pgperlcritic script is
included.

Mike Blackwell

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAESHdJpfFm_9wQnQ3koY3c91FoRQsO-fh02za9R3OEMndOn84A@mail.gmail.com
2018-05-27 09:08:42 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 8a56ff4848 Don't force a blank line before comments in perl code
Suggestion from Bruce Momjian

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180525190445.GA2213@momjian.us
2018-05-27 08:53:54 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 35361ee788 Restrict vertical tightness to parentheses in Perl code
The vertical tightness settings collapse vertical whitespace between
opening and closing brackets (parentheses, square brakets and braces).
This can make data structures in particular harder to read, and is not
very consistent with our style in non-Perl code. This patch restricts
that setting to parentheses only, and reformats all the perl code
accordingly. Not applying this to parentheses has some unfortunate
effects, so the consensus is to keep the setting for parentheses and not
for the others.

The diff for this patch does highlight some places where structures
should have trailing commas. They can be added manually, as there is no
automatic tool to do so.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2f2b87c-56be-c070-bfc0-36288b4b41c1@2ndQuadrant.com
2018-05-09 10:14:46 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 76ece16974 perltidy: Add option --nooutdent-long-comments 2018-04-27 11:37:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut d4f16d5071 perltidy: Add option --nooutdent-long-quotes 2018-04-27 11:37:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a2ada08d4c perltidy: Don't write backup files
Newer perltidy versions can just avoid writing backup files, so we don't
need the old dance of deleting them afterwards.  Supported since 20120619.

https://metacpan.org/source/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20120619/CHANGES#L61
2018-04-27 11:37:43 -04:00
Tom Lane f83bf385c1 Preliminary work for pgindent run.
Update typedefs.list from current buildfarm results.  Adjust pgindent's
typedef blacklist to block some more unfortunate typedef names that have
snuck in since last time.  Manually tweak a few places where I didn't
like the initial results of pgindent'ing.
2018-04-26 14:45:04 -04:00
Tom Lane f04d4ac919 Reindent Perl files with perltidy version 20170521.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEzK3cNiHZQ18f5tK0guoT+cN_jWeVzhYYxY=r+1Q3SmoA@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-25 14:00:19 -04:00
Tom Lane 46cda5bf7b Change pgindent/README to specify that we use perltidy version 20170521.
Per discussion, this is now the project's standard version.
Update the obsolete URL, and explain how to install a specific version.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEzK3cNiHZQ18f5tK0guoT+cN_jWeVzhYYxY=r+1Q3SmoA@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-25 13:58:39 -04:00
Simon Riggs 08ea7a2291 Revert MERGE patch
This reverts commits d204ef6377,
83454e3c2b and a few more commits thereafter
(complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature.

While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and
necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and
parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in
the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry
again in the future.

Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters.

List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:

 f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE
 ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction
 530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable
 01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata
 3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds
 a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause
 4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review
 4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE
 aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE
 83454e3c2b New files for MERGE
 d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016

Author: Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2018-04-12 11:22:56 +01:00
Tom Lane 372728b0d4 Replace our traditional initial-catalog-data format with a better design.
Historically, the initial catalog data to be installed during bootstrap
has been written in DATA() lines in the catalog header files.  This had
lots of disadvantages: the format was badly underdocumented, it was
very difficult to edit the data in any mechanized way, and due to the
lack of any abstraction the data was verbose, hard to read/understand,
and easy to get wrong.

Hence, move this data into separate ".dat" files and represent it in a way
that can easily be read and rewritten by Perl scripts.  The new format is
essentially "key => value" for each column; while it's a bit repetitive,
explicit labeling of each value makes the data far more readable and less
error-prone.  Provide a way to abbreviate entries by omitting field values
that match a specified default value for their column.  This allows removal
of a large amount of repetitive boilerplate and also lowers the barrier to
adding new columns.

Also teach genbki.pl how to translate symbolic OID references into
numeric OIDs for more cases than just "regproc"-like pg_proc references.
It can now do that for regprocedure-like references (thus solving the
problem that regproc is ambiguous for overloaded functions), operators,
types, opfamilies, opclasses, and access methods.  Use this to turn
nearly all OID cross-references in the initial data into symbolic form.
This represents a very large step forward in readability and error
resistance of the initial catalog data.  It should also reduce the
difficulty of renumbering OID assignments in uncommitted patches.

Also, solve the longstanding problem that frontend code that would like to
use OID macros and other information from the catalog headers often had
difficulty with backend-only code in the headers.  To do this, arrange for
all generated macros, plus such other declarations as we deem fit, to be
placed in "derived" header files that are safe for frontend inclusion.
(Once clients migrate to using these pg_*_d.h headers, it will be possible
to get rid of the pg_*_fn.h headers, which only exist to quarantine code
away from clients.  That is left for follow-on patches, however.)

The now-automatically-generated macros include the Anum_xxx and Natts_xxx
constants that we used to have to update by hand when adding or removing
catalog columns.

Replace the former manual method of generating OID macros for pg_type
entries with an automatic method, ensuring that all built-in types have
OID macros.  (But note that this patch does not change the way that
OID macros for pg_proc entries are built and used.  It's not clear that
making that match the other catalogs would be worth extra code churn.)

Add SGML documentation explaining what the new data format is and how to
work with it.

Despite being a very large change in the catalog headers, there is no
catversion bump here, because postgres.bki and related output files
haven't changed at all.

John Naylor, based on ideas from various people; review and minor
additional coding by me; previous review by Alvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWO48JbbwXkJz_yBFyGYW-M9YWxnPdxJBUosDC9ou_F0Q@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-08 13:17:27 -04:00
Simon Riggs d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016
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 other require multiple PL statements.
e.g.

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 and partitioned tables, including
column and row security enforcement, as well as support for
row, statement and transition triggers.

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 statically from PL/pgSQL.

MERGE does not yet support inheritance, write rules,
RETURNING clauses, updatable views or foreign tables.
MERGE follows SQL Standard per the most recent SQL:2016.

Includes full tests and documentation, including full
isolation tests to demonstrate the concurrent behavior.

This version written from scratch in 2017 by Simon Riggs,
using docs and tests originally written in 2009. Later work
from Pavan Deolasee has been both complex and deep, leaving
the lead author credit now in his hands.
Extensive discussion of concurrency from Peter Geoghegan,
with thanks for the time and effort contributed.

Various issues reported via sqlsmith by Andreas Seltenreich

Authors: Pavan Deolasee, Simon Riggs
Reviewer: Peter Geoghegan, Amit Langote, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs

Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com
https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-03 09:28:16 +01:00
Simon Riggs 7cf8a5c302 Revert "Modified files for MERGE"
This reverts commit 354f13855e.
2018-04-02 21:34:15 +01:00
Simon Riggs 354f13855e Modified files for MERGE 2018-04-02 21:12:47 +01:00
Andres Freund 51bc271790 Add Bloom filter implementation.
A Bloom filter is a space-efficient, probabilistic data structure that
can be used to test set membership.  Callers will sometimes incur false
positives, but never false negatives.  The rate of false positives is a
function of the total number of elements and the amount of memory
available for the Bloom filter.

Two classic applications of Bloom filters are cache filtering, and data
synchronization testing.  Any user of Bloom filters must accept the
possibility of false positives as a cost worth paying for the benefit in
space efficiency.

This commit adds a test harness extension module, test_bloomfilter.  It
can be used to get a sense of how the Bloom filter implementation
performs under varying conditions.

This is infrastructure for the upcoming "heapallindexed" amcheck patch,
which verifies the consistency of a heap relation against one of its
indexes.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Andrey Borodin, Michael Paquier, Thomas Munro, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm5VmG7cu1N-H=nnS57wZThoSDQU+F5dewx3o84M+jY=g@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-31 17:49:41 -07:00
Tom Lane ef1978d6ed Update pgindent's typedefs blacklist, and make it easier to adjust.
It seems that all buildfarm members are now using the <stdbool.h> code
path, so that none of them report "bool" as a typedef.  We still need it
to be treated that way, so adjust pgindent to force that whether or not
it's in the given list.

Also, the recent introduction of LLVM infrastructure has caused the
appearance of some typedef names that we definitely *don't* want
treated as typedefs, such as "string" and "abs".  Extend the existing
blacklist to include these.  (Additions based on comparing v10's
typedefs list to what the buildfarm is currently emitting.)

Rearrange the code so that the lists of whitelisted/blacklisted
names are a bit easier to find and modify.

Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28690.1521912334@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-27 18:15:39 -04:00
Andres Freund 2a0faed9d7 Add expression compilation support to LLVM JIT provider.
In addition to the interpretation of expressions (which back
evaluation of WHERE clauses, target list projection, aggregates
transition values etc) support compiling expressions to native code,
using the infrastructure added in earlier commits.

To avoid duplicating a lot of code, only support emitting code for
cases that are likely to be performance critical. For expression steps
that aren't deemed that, use the existing interpreter.

The generated code isn't great - some architectural changes are
required to address that. But this already yields a significant
speedup for some analytics queries, particularly with WHERE clauses
filtering a lot, or computing multiple aggregates.

Author: Andres Freund
Tested-By: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de

Disable JITing for VALUES() nodes.

VALUES() nodes are only ever executed once. This is primarily helpful
for debugging, when forcing JITing even for cheap queries.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-03-22 14:45:59 -07:00
Andres Freund 7ec0d80c05 Add helpers for emitting LLVM IR.
These basically just help to make code a bit more concise and pgindent
proof.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-03-22 11:51:58 -07:00
Andres Freund b96d550eb0 Support for optimizing and emitting code in LLVM JIT provider.
This commit introduces the ability to actually generate code using
LLVM. In particular, this adds:

- Ability to emit code both in heavily optimized and largely
  unoptimized fashion
- Batching facility to allow functions to be defined in small
  increments, but optimized and emitted in executable form in larger
  batches (for performance and memory efficiency)
- Type and function declaration synchronization between runtime
  generated code and normal postgres code. This is critical to be able
  to access struct fields etc.
- Developer oriented jit_dump_bitcode GUC, for inspecting / debugging
  the generated code.
- per JitContext statistics of number of functions, time spent
  generating code, optimizing, and emitting it.  This will later be
  employed for EXPLAIN support.

This commit doesn't yet contain any code actually generating
functions. That'll follow in later commits.

Documentation for GUCs added, and for JIT in general, will be added in
later commits.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by Pierre Ducroquet
Testing-By: Thomas Munro, Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-03-22 11:05:22 -07:00
Robert Haas e2f1eb0ee3 Implement partition-wise grouping/aggregation.
If the partition keys of input relation are part of the GROUP BY
clause, all the rows belonging to a given group come from a single
partition.  This allows aggregation/grouping over a partitioned
relation to be broken down * into aggregation/grouping on each
partition.  This should be no worse, and often better, than the normal
approach.

If the GROUP BY clause does not contain all the partition keys, we can
still perform partial aggregation for each partition and then finalize
aggregation after appending the partial results.  This is less certain
to be a win, but it's still useful.

Jeevan Chalke, Ashutosh Bapat, Robert Haas.  The larger patch series
of which this patch is a part was also reviewed and tested by Antonin
Houska, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, David Rowley, Dilip Kumar, Konstantin
Knizhnik, Pascal Legrand, and Rafia Sabih.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=V64_xhstVHie0Rz=KPEQnLJMZt_e314P0jaT_oJ9MR8A@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-22 12:49:48 -04:00
Andres Freund 432bb9e04d Basic JIT provider and error handling infrastructure.
This commit introduces:

1) JIT provider abstraction, which allows JIT functionality to be
   implemented in separate shared libraries. That's desirable because
   it allows to install JIT support as a separate package, and because
   it allows experimentation with different forms of JITing.
2) JITContexts which can be, using functions introduced in follow up
   commits, used to emit JITed functions, and have them be cleaned up
   on error.
3) The outline of a LLVM JIT provider, which will be fleshed out in
   subsequent commits.

Documentation for GUCs added, and for JIT in general, will be added in
later commits.

Author: Andres Freund, with architectural input from Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-03-21 19:28:28 -07:00
Robert Haas 9da0cc3528 Support parallel btree index builds.
To make this work, tuplesort.c and logtape.c must also support
parallelism, so this patch adds that infrastructure and then applies
it to the particular case of parallel btree index builds.  Testing
to date shows that this can often be 2-3x faster than a serial
index build.

The model for deciding how many workers to use is fairly primitive
at present, but it's better than not having the feature.  We can
refine it as we get more experience.

Peter Geoghegan with some help from Rushabh Lathia.  While Heikki
Linnakangas is not an author of this patch, he wrote other patches
without which this feature would not have been possible, and
therefore the release notes should possibly credit him as an author
of this feature.  Reviewed by Claudio Freire, Heikki Linnakangas,
Thomas Munro, Tels, Amit Kapila, me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM3SWZQKM=Pzc=CAHzRixKjp2eO5Q0Jg1SoFQqeXFQ647JiwqQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=AxWqDoVvGU7dq856S4r6sJAj6DBn7VMtigkB33N5eyg@mail.gmail.com
2018-02-02 13:32:44 -05:00
Robert Haas 2f17844104 Allow UPDATE to move rows between partitions.
When an UPDATE causes a row to no longer match the partition
constraint, try to move it to a different partition where it does
match the partition constraint.  In essence, the UPDATE is split into
a DELETE from the old partition and an INSERT into the new one.  This
can lead to surprising behavior in concurrency scenarios because
EvalPlanQual rechecks won't work as they normally did; the known
problems are documented.  (There is a pending patch to improve the
situation further, but it needs more review.)

Amit Khandekar, reviewed and tested by Amit Langote, David Rowley,
Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Dilip Kumar, Amul Sul, Thomas Munro, Álvaro
Herrera, Amit Kapila, and me.  A few final revisions by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9do9o2ccQ7j7+tSgiE1REY65XRiMb=yJO3u3QhyP8EEPQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-19 15:33:06 -05:00
Andres Freund 69c3936a14 Expression evaluation based aggregate transition invocation.
Previously aggregate transition and combination functions were invoked
by special case code in nodeAgg.c, evaluating input and filters
separately using the expression evaluation machinery. That turns out
to not be great for performance for several reasons:

- repeated expression evaluations have some cost
- the transition functions invocations are poorly predicted, as
  commonly there are multiple aggregates in a query, resulting in the
  same call-stack invoking different functions.
- filter and input computation had to be done separately
- the special case code made it hard to implement JITing of the whole
  transition function invocation

Address this by building one large expression that computes input,
evaluates filters, and invokes transition functions.

This leads to moderate speedups in queries bottlenecked by aggregate
computations, and enables large speedups for similar cases once JITing
is done.

There's potential for further improvement:
- It'd be nice if we could simplify the somewhat expensive
  aggstate->all_pergroups lookups.
- right now there's still an advance_transition_function invocation in
  nodeAgg.c, leading to some code duplication.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-01-09 13:25:38 -08:00
Andres Freund 1804284042 Add parallel-aware hash joins.
Introduce parallel-aware hash joins that appear in EXPLAIN plans as Parallel
Hash Join with Parallel Hash.  While hash joins could already appear in
parallel queries, they were previously always parallel-oblivious and had a
partial subplan only on the outer side, meaning that the work of the inner
subplan was duplicated in every worker.

After this commit, the planner will consider using a partial subplan on the
inner side too, using the Parallel Hash node to divide the work over the
available CPU cores and combine its results in shared memory.  If the join
needs to be split into multiple batches in order to respect work_mem, then
workers process different batches as much as possible and then work together
on the remaining batches.

The advantages of a parallel-aware hash join over a parallel-oblivious hash
join used in a parallel query are that it:

 * avoids wasting memory on duplicated hash tables
 * avoids wasting disk space on duplicated batch files
 * divides the work of building the hash table over the CPUs

One disadvantage is that there is some communication between the participating
CPUs which might outweigh the benefits of parallelism in the case of small
hash tables.  This is avoided by the planner's existing reluctance to supply
partial plans for small scans, but it may be necessary to estimate
synchronization costs in future if that situation changes.  Another is that
outer batch 0 must be written to disk if multiple batches are required.

A potential future advantage of parallel-aware hash joins is that right and
full outer joins could be supported, since there is a single set of matched
bits for each hashtable, but that is not yet implemented.

A new GUC enable_parallel_hash is defined to control the feature, defaulting
to on.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Robert Haas
Tested-By: Rafia Sabih, Prabhat Sahu
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com
    https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=37HKyJ4U6XOLi=JgfSHM3o6B-GaeO-6hkOmneTDkH+Uw@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-21 00:43:41 -08:00
Andres Freund ab9e0e718a Add shared tuplestores.
SharedTuplestore allows multiple participants to write into it and
then read the tuples back from it in parallel.  Each reader receives
partial results.

For now it always uses disk files, but other buffering policies and
other kinds of scans (ie each reader receives complete results) may be
useful in future.

The upcoming parallel hash join feature will use this facility.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-18 14:23:19 -08:00
Andres Freund dc6c4c9dc2 Add infrastructure for sharing temporary files between backends.
SharedFileSet allows temporary files to be created by one backend and
then exported for read-only access by other backends, with clean-up
managed by reference counting associated with a DSM segment.  This
includes changes to fd.c and buffile.c to support the new kind of
temporary file.

This will be used by an upcoming patch adding support for parallel
hash joins.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Rushabh Lathia
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com
    https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJ_UgLux=_jTgCQ4yFz0iBntudsNKa1we3kN1BAG=88w@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-01 16:30:56 -08:00
Robert Haas eaedf0df71 Update typedefs.list and re-run pgindent
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaA9=1RWKtBWpDaj+sF3Stgc8sHgf5z=KGtbjwPLQVDMA@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-29 09:24:24 -05:00
Andres Freund 7082e614c0 Provide DSM segment to ExecXXXInitializeWorker functions.
Previously, executor nodes running in parallel worker processes didn't
have access to the dsm_segment object used for parallel execution.  In
order to support resource management based on DSM segment lifetime,
they need that.  So create a ParallelWorkerContext object to hold it
and pass it to all InitializeWorker functions.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-16 17:39:18 -08:00
Robert Haas 1aba8e651a Add hash partitioning.
Hash partitioning is useful when you want to partition a growing data
set evenly.  This can be useful to keep table sizes reasonable, which
makes maintenance operations such as VACUUM faster, or to enable
partition-wise join.

At present, we still depend on constraint exclusion for partitioning
pruning, and the shape of the partition constraints for hash
partitioning is such that that doesn't work.  Work is underway to fix
that, which should both improve performance and make partitioning
pruning work with hash partitioning.

Amul Sul, reviewed and tested by Dilip Kumar, Ashutosh Bapat, Yugo
Nagata, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Jesper Pedersen, and by me.  A few
final tweaks also by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b96fhpJAP=ALbETmeLk1Uni_GFZD938zgenhF49qgDTjaQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-09 18:07:44 -05:00
Andres Freund 141fd1b66c Improve sys/catcache performance.
The following are the individual improvements:
1) Avoidance of FunctionCallInfo based function calls, replaced by
   more efficient functions with a native C argument interface.
2) Don't extract columns from a cache entry's tuple whenever matching
   entries - instead store them as a Datum array. This also allows to
   get rid of having to build dummy tuples for negative & list
   entries, and of a hack for dealing with cstring vs. text weirdness.
3) Reorder members of catcache.h struct, so imortant entries are more
   likely to be on one cacheline.
4) Allowing the compiler to specialize critical SearchCatCache for a
   specific number of attributes allows to unroll loops and avoid
   other nkeys dependant initialization.
5) Only initializing the ScanKey when necessary, i.e. catcache misses,
   greatly reduces cache unnecessary cpu cache misses.
6) Split of the cache-miss case from the hash lookup, reducing stack
   allocations etc in the common case.
7) CatCTup and their corresponding heaptuple are allocated in one
   piece.

This results in making cache lookups themselves roughly three times as
fast - full-system benchmarks obviously improve less than that.

I've also evaluated further techniques:
- replace open coded hash with simplehash - the list walk right now
  shows up in profiles. Unfortunately it's not easy to do so safely as
  an entry's memory location can change at various times, which
  doesn't work well with the refcounting and cache invalidation.
- Cacheline-aligning CatCTup entries - helps some with performance,
  but the win isn't big and the code for it is ugly, because the
  tuples have to be freed as well.
- add more proper functions, rather than macros for
  SearchSysCacheCopyN etc., but right now they don't show up in
  profiles.

The reason the macro wrapper for syscache.c/h have to be changed,
rather than just catcache, is that doing otherwise would require
exposing the SysCache array to the outside.  That might be a good idea
anyway, but it's for another day.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914061207.zxotvyopetm7lrrp@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-10-13 14:22:41 -07:00
Andres Freund cc5f81366c Add support for coordinating record typmods among parallel workers.
Tuples can have type RECORDOID and a typmod number that identifies a blessed
TupleDesc in a backend-private cache.  To support the sharing of such tuples
through shared memory and temporary files, provide a typmod registry in
shared memory.

To achieve that, introduce per-session DSM segments, created on demand when a
backend first runs a parallel query.  The per-session DSM segment has a
table-of-contents just like the per-query DSM segment, and initially the
contents are a shared record typmod registry and a DSA area to provide the
space it needs to grow.

State relating to the current session is accessed via a Session object
reached through global variable CurrentSession that may require significant
redesign further down the road as we figure out what else needs to be shared
or remodelled.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-14 19:59:21 -07:00
Andres Freund 8c0d7bafad Hash tables backed by DSA shared memory.
Add general purpose chaining hash tables for DSA memory.  Unlike
DynaHash in shared memory mode, these hash tables can grow as
required, and cope with being mapped into different addresses in
different backends.

There is a wide range of potential users for such a hash table, though
it's very likely the interface will need to evolve as we come to
understand the needs of different kinds of users.  E.g support for
iterators and incremental resizing is planned for later commits and
the details of the callback signatures are likely to change.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: John Gorman, Andres Freund, Dilip Kumar, Robert Haas
Discussion:
	https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3d8o8XdVwYT6O=bHKsKAM2pu2D6sV1S_=4d+jStVCE7w@mail.gmail.com
	https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-22 22:43:07 -07:00
Robert Haas 79ccd7cbd5 pg_prewarm: Add automatic prewarm feature.
Periodically while the server is running, and at shutdown, write out a
list of blocks in shared buffers.  When the server reaches consistency
-- unfortunatey, we can't do it before that point without breaking
things -- reload those blocks into any still-unused shared buffers.

Mithun Cy and Robert Haas, reviewed and tested by Beena Emerson,
Amit Kapila, Jim Nasby, and Rafia Sabih.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD__OugubOs1Vy7kgF6xTjmEqTR4CrGAv8w+ZbaY_+MZeitukw@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-21 14:17:39 -04:00
Tom Lane 21d304dfed Final pgindent + perltidy run for v10. 2017-08-14 17:29:33 -04:00
Dean Rasheed d363d42bb9 Use MINVALUE/MAXVALUE instead of UNBOUNDED for range partition bounds.
Previously, UNBOUNDED meant no lower bound when used in the FROM list,
and no upper bound when used in the TO list, which was OK for
single-column range partitioning, but problematic with multiple
columns. For example, an upper bound of (10.0, UNBOUNDED) would not be
collocated with a lower bound of (10.0, UNBOUNDED), thus making it
difficult or impossible to define contiguous multi-column range
partitions in some cases.

Fix this by using MINVALUE and MAXVALUE instead of UNBOUNDED to
represent a partition column that is unbounded below or above
respectively. This syntax removes any ambiguity, and ensures that if
one partition's lower bound equals another partition's upper bound,
then the partitions are contiguous.

Also drop the constraint prohibiting finite values after an unbounded
column, and just document the fact that any values after MINVALUE or
MAXVALUE are ignored. Previously it was necessary to repeat UNBOUNDED
multiple times, which was needlessly verbose.

Note: Forces a post-PG 10 beta2 initdb.

Report by Amul Sul, original patch by Amit Langote with some
additional hacking by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b947mowpLdxL3jo3YLKngRjrq9+Ej4ymduQTfYR+8=YAYQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-07-21 09:20:47 +01:00
Tom Lane 81f056c725 Remove entab and associated detritus.
We don't need this anymore, because pg_bsd_indent has been taught to
follow the same tab-vs-space rules that entab used to enforce.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:46:39 -04:00
Tom Lane 382ceffdf7 Phase 3 of pgindent updates.
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.

By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis.  However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent.  That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.

This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b8998ebb Phase 2 of pgindent updates.
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.

Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code.  The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there.  BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs.  So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before.  This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.

Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 8ff6d4ec78 Adjust pgindent script to use pg_bsd_indent 2.0.
Update version-checking code and list of switches.  Delete obsolete
quasi-support for using GNU indent.  Remove a lot of no-longer-needed
workarounds for bugs of the old version, and improve comments for
the hacks that remain.  Update run_build() subroutine to fetch the
pg_bsd_indent code from the newly established git repo for it.

In passing, fix pgindent to not overwrite files that require no changes;
this makes it a bit more friendly to run on a built tree.

Adjust relevant documentation.

Remove indent.bsd.patch; it's not relevant anymore (and was obsolete
long ago anyway).  Likewise remove pgcppindent, since we're no longer
in the business of shipping C++ code.

Piotr Stefaniak is responsible for most of the algorithmic changes
to the pgindent script; I did the rest.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 14:26:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 9ef2dbefc7 Final pgindent run with old pg_bsd_indent (version 1.3).
This is just to have a clean basis for comparison with the results of
the new version (which will indeed end up reverting some of these
changes...)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 14:09:24 -04:00
Tom Lane cea258b63d Teach pgindent to skip files generated by bison or flex automatically.
If a .c or .h file corresponds to a .y or .l file, skip indenting it.
There's no point in reindenting derived files, and these files tend to
confuse pgindent.  (Which probably indicates a bug in BSD indent, but
I can't get excited about trying to fix it.)

For the same reasons, add src/backend/utils/fmgrtab.c to the set of
files excluded by src/tools/pgindent/exclude_file_patterns.

The point of doing this is that it makes it safe to run pgindent over
the tree without doing "make maintainer-clean" first.  While these are
not the only derived .c/.h files in the tree, they are the only ones
pgindent fails on.  Removing that prerequisite step results in one less
way to mess up a pgindent run, and it's necessary if we ever hope to get
to the ease of running pgindent via "make indent".
2017-06-16 23:14:40 -04:00