/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * relation.h * Definitions for internal planner nodes. * * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * $Id: relation.h,v 1.42 2000/01/26 05:58:17 momjian Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifndef RELATION_H #define RELATION_H #include "nodes/parsenodes.h" /* * Relids * List of relation identifiers (indexes into the rangetable). * * Note: these are lists of integers, not Nodes. */ typedef List *Relids; /* * RelOptInfo * Per-relation information for planning/optimization * * Parts of this data structure are specific to various scan and join * mechanisms. It didn't seem worth creating new node types for them. * * relids - List of base-relation identifiers; it is a base relation * if there is just one, a join relation if more than one * rows - estimated number of tuples in the relation after restriction * clauses have been applied (ie, output rows of a plan for it) * width - avg. number of bytes per tuple in the relation after the * appropriate projections have been done (ie, output width) * targetlist - List of TargetList nodes * pathlist - List of Path nodes, one for each potentially useful * method of generating the relation * cheapestpath - least expensive Path (regardless of ordering) * pruneable - flag to let the planner know whether it can prune the * pathlist of this RelOptInfo or not. * * * If the relation is a base relation it will have these fields set: * * indexed - true if the relation has secondary indices * pages - number of disk pages in relation * tuples - number of tuples in relation (not considering restrictions) * * * The presence of the remaining fields depends on the restrictions * and joins that the relation participates in: * * restrictinfo - List of RestrictInfo nodes, containing info about each * qualification clause in which this relation participates * joininfo - List of JoinInfo nodes, containing info about each join * clause in which this relation participates * innerjoin - List of Path nodes that represent indices that may be used * as inner paths of nestloop joins. This field is non-null * only for base rels, since join rels have no indices. */ typedef struct RelOptInfo { NodeTag type; /* all relations included in this RelOptInfo */ Relids relids; /* integer list of base relids (RT indexes) */ /* size estimates generated by planner */ double rows; /* estimated number of result tuples */ int width; /* estimated avg width of result tuples */ /* materialization information */ List *targetlist; List *pathlist; /* Path structures */ struct Path *cheapestpath; bool pruneable; /* statistics from pg_class (only valid if it's a base rel!) */ bool indexed; long pages; double tuples; /* used by various scans and joins: */ List *restrictinfo; /* RestrictInfo structures */ List *joininfo; /* JoinInfo structures */ List *innerjoin; /* potential indexscans for nestloop joins */ /* innerjoin indexscans are not in the main pathlist because they are * not usable except in specific join contexts; we have to test before * seeing whether they can be used. */ } RelOptInfo; /* * IndexOptInfo * Per-index information for planning/optimization * * Prior to Postgres 7.0, RelOptInfo was used to describe both relations * and indexes, but that created confusion without actually doing anything * useful. So now we have a separate IndexOptInfo struct for indexes. * * indexoid - OID of the index relation itself * pages - number of disk pages in index * tuples - number of index tuples in index * classlist - List of PG_AMOPCLASS OIDs for the index * indexkeys - List of base-relation attribute numbers that are index keys * ordering - List of PG_OPERATOR OIDs which order the indexscan result * relam - the OID of the pg_am of the index * amcostestimate - OID of the relam's cost estimator * indproc - OID of the function if a functional index, else 0 * indpred - index predicate if a partial index, else NULL * * NB. the last element of the arrays classlist, indexkeys and ordering * is always 0. */ typedef struct IndexOptInfo { NodeTag type; Oid indexoid; /* OID of the index relation */ /* statistics from pg_class */ long pages; double tuples; /* index descriptor information */ Oid *classlist; /* classes of AM operators */ int *indexkeys; /* keys over which we're indexing */ Oid *ordering; /* OIDs of sort operators for each key */ Oid relam; /* OID of the access method (in pg_am) */ RegProcedure amcostestimate; /* OID of the access method's cost fcn */ Oid indproc; /* if a functional index */ List *indpred; /* if a partial index */ } IndexOptInfo; /* * PathKeys * * The sort ordering of a path is represented by a list of sublists of * PathKeyItem nodes. An empty list implies no known ordering. Otherwise * the first sublist represents the primary sort key, the second the * first secondary sort key, etc. Each sublist contains one or more * PathKeyItem nodes, each of which can be taken as the attribute that * appears at that sort position. (See the top of optimizer/path/pathkeys.c * for more information.) */ typedef struct PathKeyItem { NodeTag type; Node *key; /* the item that is ordered */ Oid sortop; /* the ordering operator ('<' op) */ /* * key typically points to a Var node, ie a relation attribute, * but it can also point to a Func clause representing the value * indexed by a functional index. Someday we might allow arbitrary * expressions as path keys, so don't assume more than you must. */ } PathKeyItem; /* * Type "Path" is used as-is for sequential-scan paths. For other * path types it is the first component of a larger struct. */ typedef struct Path { NodeTag type; RelOptInfo *parent; /* the relation this path can build */ Cost path_cost; /* estimated execution cost of path */ NodeTag pathtype; /* tag identifying scan/join method */ /* XXX why is pathtype separate from the NodeTag? */ List *pathkeys; /* sort ordering of path's output */ /* pathkeys is a List of Lists of PathKeyItem nodes; see above */ } Path; /*---------- * IndexPath represents an index scan. Although an indexscan can only read * a single relation, it can scan it more than once, potentially using a * different index during each scan. The result is the union (OR) of all the * tuples matched during any scan. (The executor is smart enough not to return * the same tuple more than once, even if it is matched in multiple scans.) * * 'indexid' is a list of index relation OIDs, one per scan to be performed. * 'indexqual' is a list of index qualifications, also one per scan. * Each entry in 'indexqual' is a sublist of qualification expressions with * implicit AND semantics across the sublist items. Only expressions that * are usable as indexquals (as determined by indxpath.c) may appear here. * * NOTE that the semantics of the top-level list in 'indexqual' is OR * combination, while the sublists are implicitly AND combinations! *---------- */ typedef struct IndexPath { Path path; List *indexid; List *indexqual; /* * joinrelids is only used in IndexPaths that are constructed for use * as the inner path of a nestloop join. These paths have indexquals * that refer to values of other rels, so those other rels must be * included in the outer joinrel in order to make a usable join. */ Relids joinrelids; /* other rels mentioned in indexqual */ } IndexPath; typedef struct TidPath { Path path; List *tideval; Relids unjoined_relids; /* some rels not yet part of my Path */ } TidPath; /* * All join-type paths share these fields. */ typedef struct JoinPath { Path path; Path *outerjoinpath; /* path for the outer side of the join */ Path *innerjoinpath; /* path for the inner side of the join */ } JoinPath; /* * A nested-loop path needs no special fields. */ typedef JoinPath NestPath; /* * A mergejoin path has these fields. * * Note that the mergeclauses are a subset of the parent relation's * restriction-clause list. Any join clauses that are not mergejoinable * appear only in the parent's restrict list, and must be checked by a * qpqual at execution time. */ typedef struct MergePath { JoinPath jpath; List *path_mergeclauses; /* join clauses used for merge */ /* * outersortkeys (resp. innersortkeys) is NIL if the outer path * (resp. inner path) is already ordered appropriately for the * mergejoin. If it is not NIL then it is a PathKeys list describing * the ordering that must be created by an explicit sort step. */ List *outersortkeys; List *innersortkeys; } MergePath; /* * A hashjoin path has these fields. * * The remarks above for mergeclauses apply for hashclauses as well. * However, hashjoin does not care what order its inputs appear in, * so we have no need for sortkeys. */ typedef struct HashPath { JoinPath jpath; List *path_hashclauses; /* join clauses used for hashing */ } HashPath; /* * Restriction clause info. * * We create one of these for each AND sub-clause of a restriction condition * (WHERE clause). Since the restriction clauses are logically ANDed, we * can use any one of them or any subset of them to filter out tuples, * without having to evaluate the rest. The RestrictInfo node itself stores * data used by the optimizer while choosing the best query plan. * * A restriction clause will appear in the restrictinfo list of a RelOptInfo * that describes exactly the set of base relations referenced by the * restriction clause. It is not possible to apply the clause at any lower * nesting level, and there is little point in delaying its evaluation to * higher nesting levels. (The "predicate migration" code was once intended * to push restriction clauses up and down the plan tree, but it's dead code * and is unlikely to be resurrected in the foreseeable future.) * * If a restriction clause references more than one base rel, it will also * appear in the JoinInfo list of every RelOptInfo that describes a strict * subset of the base rels mentioned in the clause. The JoinInfo lists are * used to drive join tree building by selecting plausible join candidates. * * In general, the referenced clause might be arbitrarily complex. The * kinds of clauses we can handle as indexscan quals, mergejoin clauses, * or hashjoin clauses are fairly limited --- the code for each kind of * path is responsible for identifying the restrict clauses it can use * and ignoring the rest. Clauses not implemented by an indexscan, * mergejoin, or hashjoin will be placed in the qpqual field of the * final Plan node, where they will be enforced by general-purpose * qual-expression-evaluation code. (But we are still entitled to count * their selectivity when estimating the result tuple count, if we * can guess what it is...) */ typedef struct RestrictInfo { NodeTag type; Expr *clause; /* the represented clause of WHERE cond */ /* only used if clause is an OR clause: */ List *subclauseindices; /* indexes matching subclauses */ /* subclauseindices is a List of Lists of IndexOptInfos */ /* valid if clause is mergejoinable, else InvalidOid: */ Oid mergejoinoperator; /* copy of clause operator */ Oid left_sortop; /* leftside sortop needed for mergejoin */ Oid right_sortop; /* rightside sortop needed for mergejoin */ /* valid if clause is hashjoinable, else InvalidOid: */ Oid hashjoinoperator; /* copy of clause operator */ } RestrictInfo; /* * Join clause info. * * We make a list of these for each RelOptInfo, containing info about * all the join clauses this RelOptInfo participates in. (For this * purpose, a "join clause" is a WHERE clause that mentions both vars * belonging to this relation and vars belonging to relations not yet * joined to it.) We group these clauses according to the set of * other base relations (unjoined relations) mentioned in them. * There is one JoinInfo for each distinct set of unjoined_relids, * and its jinfo_restrictinfo lists the clause(s) that use that set * of other relations. */ typedef struct JoinInfo { NodeTag type; Relids unjoined_relids; /* some rels not yet part of my RelOptInfo */ List *jinfo_restrictinfo; /* relevant RestrictInfos */ } JoinInfo; /* * Stream: * A stream represents a root-to-leaf path in a plan tree (i.e. a tree of * JoinPaths and Paths). The stream includes pointers to all Path nodes, * as well as to any clauses that reside above Path nodes. This structure * is used to make Path nodes and clauses look similar, so that Predicate * Migration can run. * * XXX currently, Predicate Migration is dead code, and so is this node type. * Probably should remove support for it. * * pathptr -- pointer to the current path node * cinfo -- if NULL, this stream node referes to the path node. * Otherwise this is a pointer to the current clause. * clausetype -- whether cinfo is in loc_restrictinfo or pathinfo in the * path node (XXX this is now used only by dead code, which is * good because the distinction no longer exists...) * upstream -- linked list pointer upwards * downstream -- ditto, downwards * groupup -- whether or not this node is in a group with the node upstream * groupcost -- total cost of the group that node is in * groupsel -- total selectivity of the group that node is in */ typedef struct Stream *StreamPtr; typedef struct Stream { NodeTag type; Path *pathptr; RestrictInfo *cinfo; int *clausetype; StreamPtr upstream; StreamPtr downstream; bool groupup; Cost groupcost; Selectivity groupsel; } Stream; #endif /* RELATION_H */