postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 4be058fe9e In the planner, replace an empty FROM clause with a dummy RTE.
The fact that "SELECT expression" has no base relations has long been a
thorn in the side of the planner.  It makes it hard to flatten a sub-query
that looks like that, or is a trivial VALUES() item, because the planner
generally uses relid sets to identify sub-relations, and such a sub-query
would have an empty relid set if we flattened it.  prepjointree.c contains
some baroque logic that works around this in certain special cases --- but
there is a much better answer.  We can replace an empty FROM clause with a
dummy RTE that acts like a table of one row and no columns, and then there
are no such corner cases to worry about.  Instead we need some logic to
get rid of useless dummy RTEs, but that's simpler and covers more cases
than what was there before.

For really trivial cases, where the query is just "SELECT expression" and
nothing else, there's a hazard that adding the extra RTE makes for a
noticeable slowdown; even though it's not much processing, there's not
that much for the planner to do overall.  However testing says that the
penalty is very small, close to the noise level.  In more complex queries,
this is able to find optimizations that we could not find before.

The new RTE type is called RTE_RESULT, since the "scan" plan type it
gives rise to is a Result node (the same plan we produced for a "SELECT
expression" query before).  To avoid confusion, rename the old ResultPath
path type to GroupResultPath, reflecting that it's only used in degenerate
grouping cases where we know the query produces just one grouped row.
(It wouldn't work to unify the two cases, because there are different
rules about where the associated quals live during query_planner.)

Note: although this touches readfuncs.c, I don't think a catversion
bump is required, because the added case can't occur in stored rules,
only plans.

Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley and Mark Dilger

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15944.1521127664@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-01-28 17:54:23 -05:00
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adminpack Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
amcheck Move generic snapshot related code from tqual.h to snapmgr.h. 2019-01-21 17:06:41 -08:00
auth_delay Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
auto_explain Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
bloom Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
btree_gin Provide separate header file for built-in float types 2018-07-29 03:30:48 +02:00
btree_gist Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility. 2018-11-20 16:00:17 -08:00
citext Add a 64-bit hash function for type citext. 2018-11-23 13:24:45 -05:00
cube Make float exponent output on Windows look the same as elsewhere. 2018-10-12 11:14:27 -04:00
dblink Remove superfluous tqual.h includes. 2019-01-21 12:15:02 -08:00
dict_int Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
earthdistance Fix earthdistance test suite function name typo. 2018-07-29 12:02:07 -07:00
file_fdw Replace uses of heap_open et al with the corresponding table_* function. 2019-01-21 10:51:37 -08:00
fuzzystrmatch Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
hstore Change function call information to be variable length. 2019-01-26 14:17:52 -08:00
hstore_plperl Still further rethinking of build changes for macOS Mojave. 2018-10-18 14:55:23 -04:00
hstore_plpython Fix out-of-tree build for transform modules. 2018-09-16 18:46:45 +01:00
intagg Schema-qualify some references to regprocedure. 2016-06-10 10:41:58 -04:00
intarray Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
isn Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
jsonb_plperl Still further rethinking of build changes for macOS Mojave. 2018-10-18 14:55:23 -04:00
jsonb_plpython Remove redundant allocation 2018-10-05 17:10:58 +02:00
lo lo: Add test suite 2017-09-14 22:22:59 -04:00
ltree Allow btree comparison functions to return INT_MIN. 2018-10-05 16:01:29 -04:00
ltree_plpython Fix out-of-tree build for transform modules. 2018-09-16 18:46:45 +01:00
oid2name Replace @postgresql.org with @lists.postgresql.org for mailinglists 2019-01-19 19:06:35 +01:00
pageinspect Revert "Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations." 2019-01-28 11:31:44 +05:30
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
pg_buffercache Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility. 2018-11-20 16:00:17 -08:00
pg_freespacemap Replace heapam.h includes with {table, relation}.h where applicable. 2019-01-21 10:51:37 -08:00
pg_prewarm Replace heapam.h includes with {table, relation}.h where applicable. 2019-01-21 10:51:37 -08:00
pg_standby Replace @postgresql.org with @lists.postgresql.org for mailinglists 2019-01-19 19:06:35 +01:00
pg_stat_statements In the planner, replace an empty FROM clause with a dummy RTE. 2019-01-28 17:54:23 -05:00
pg_trgm Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
pg_visibility Move remaining code from tqual.[ch] to heapam.h / heapam_visibility.c. 2019-01-21 17:07:10 -08:00
pgcrypto Fix misc typos in comments. 2019-01-23 13:39:00 +02:00
pgrowlocks Move remaining code from tqual.[ch] to heapam.h / heapam_visibility.c. 2019-01-21 17:07:10 -08:00
pgstattuple Move remaining code from tqual.[ch] to heapam.h / heapam_visibility.c. 2019-01-21 17:07:10 -08:00
postgres_fdw In the planner, replace an empty FROM clause with a dummy RTE. 2019-01-28 17:54:23 -05:00
seg Make float exponent output on Windows look the same as elsewhere. 2018-10-12 11:14:27 -04:00
sepgsql Move generic snapshot related code from tqual.h to snapmgr.h. 2019-01-21 17:06:41 -08:00
spi Remove timetravel extension. 2018-10-11 11:43:56 -07:00
sslinfo Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
start-scripts Remove contrib/start-scripts/osx/. 2017-11-17 12:53:20 -05:00
tablefunc Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
tcn Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
test_decoding Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
tsm_system_rows Don't include heapam.h from others headers. 2019-01-14 16:24:41 -08:00
tsm_system_time Don't include heapam.h from others headers. 2019-01-14 16:24:41 -08:00
unaccent Update unaccent rules with release 34 of CLDR for Latin-ASCII.xml 2019-01-10 14:10:21 +09:00
uuid-ossp Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
vacuumlo Replace @postgresql.org with @lists.postgresql.org for mailinglists 2019-01-19 19:06:35 +01:00
xml2 Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Respect TEMP_CONFIG when pg_regress_check and friends are called 2016-02-27 12:28:21 -05:00
Makefile Transforms for jsonb to PL/Perl 2018-04-03 09:47:18 -04:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

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