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* Avoid full scan of GIN indexes when possibleAlexander Korotkov2020-01-181-6/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The strategy of GIN index scan is driven by opclass-specific extract_query method. This method that needed search mode is GIN_SEARCH_MODE_ALL. This mode means that matching tuple may contain none of extracted entries. Simple example is '!term' tsquery, which doesn't need any term to exist in matching tsvector. In order to handle such scan key GIN calculates virtual entry, which contains all TIDs of all entries of attribute. In fact this is full scan of index attribute. And typically this is very slow, but allows to handle some queries correctly in GIN. However, current algorithm calculate such virtual entry for each GIN_SEARCH_MODE_ALL scan key even if they are multiple for the same attribute. This is clearly not optimal. This commit improves the situation by introduction of "exclude only" scan keys. Such scan keys are not capable to return set of matching TIDs. Instead, they are capable only to filter TIDs produced by normal scan keys. Therefore, each attribute should contain at least one normal scan key, while rest of them may be "exclude only" if search mode is GIN_SEARCH_MODE_ALL. The same optimization might be applied to the whole scan, not per-attribute. But that leads to NULL values elimination problem. There is trade-off between multiple possible ways to do this. We probably want to do this later using some cost-based decision algorithm. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_YGP5-BEt5Cc0%3DzMve92vocPzD%2BXiZgiZs1kjY0cj%3DXBg%40mail.gmail.com Author: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov, Tom Lane, Julien Rouhaud Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane
* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-011-1/+1
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Add a reverse-translation column number array to struct AppendRelInfo.Tom Lane2019-12-021-18/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | This provides for cheaper mapping of child columns back to parent columns. The one existing use-case in examine_simple_variable() would hardly justify this by itself; but an upcoming bug fix will make use of this array in a mainstream code path, and it seems likely that we'll find other uses for it as we continue to build out the partitioning infrastructure. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12424.1575168015@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow access to child table statistics if user can read parent table.Tom Lane2019-11-261-0/+128
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The fix for CVE-2017-7484 disallowed use of pg_statistic data for planning purposes if the user would not be able to select the associated column and a non-leakproof function is to be applied to the statistics values. That turns out to disable use of pg_statistic data in some common cases involving inheritance/partitioning, where the user does have permission to select from the parent table that was actually named in the query, but not from a child table whose stats are needed. Since, in non-corner cases, the user *can* select the child table's data via the parent, this restriction is not actually useful from a security standpoint. Improve the logic so that we also check the permissions of the originally-named table, and allow access if select permission exists for that. When checking access to stats for a simple child column, we can map the child column number back to the parent, and perform this test exactly (including not allowing access if the child column isn't exposed by the parent). For expression indexes, the current logic just insists on whole-table select access, and this patch allows access if the user can select the whole parent table. In principle, if the child table has extra columns, this might allow access to stats on columns the user can't read. In practice, it's unlikely that the planner is going to do any stats calculations involving expressions that are not visible to the query, so we'll ignore that fine point for now. Perhaps someday we'll improve that logic to detect exactly which columns are used by an expression index ... but today is not that day. Back-patch to v11. The issue was created in 9.2 and up by the CVE-2017-7484 fix, but this patch depends on the append_rel_array[] planner data structure which only exists in v11 and up. In practice the issue is most urgent with partitioned tables, so fixing v11 and later should satisfy much of the practical need. Dilip Kumar and Amit Langote, with some kibitzing by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3876.1531261875@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Provide statistics for hypothetical BRIN indexesMichael Paquier2019-11-211-9/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trying to use hypothetical indexes with BRIN currently fails when trying to access a relation that does not exist when looking for the statistics. With the current API, it is not possible to easily pass a value for pages_per_range down to the hypothetical index, so this makes use of the default value of BRIN_DEFAULT_PAGES_PER_RANGE, which should be fine enough in most cases. Being able to refine or enforce the hypothetical costs in more optimistic ways would require more refactoring by filling in the statistics when building IndexOptInfo in plancat.c. This would involve ABI breakages around the costing routines, something not fit for stable branches. This is broken since 7e534ad, so backpatch down to v10. Author: Julien Rouhaud, Heikki Linnakangas Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_ZH0LKEA8VFCocr6Lpte1ab0b6FpvgS0y4way+RPSXfYg@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 10
* Skip system attributes when applying mvdistinct statsTomas Vondra2019-11-161-5/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When estimating number of distinct groups, we failed to ignore system attributes when matching the group expressions to mvdistinct stats, causing failures like ERROR: negative bitmapset member not allowed Fix that by simply skipping anything that is not a regular attribute. Backpatch to PostgreSQL 10, where the extended stats were introduced. Bug: #16111 Reported-by: Tuomas Leikola Author: Tomas Vondra Backpatch-through: 10 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16111-687799584c3a7e73@postgresql.org
* Remove some code for old unsupported versions of MSVCPeter Eisentraut2019-10-081-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | As of d9dd406fe281d22d5238d3c26a7182543c711e74, we require MSVC 2013, which means _MSC_VER >= 1800. This means that conditionals about older versions of _MSC_VER can be removed or simplified. Previous code was also in some cases handling MinGW, where _MSC_VER is not defined at all, incorrectly, such as in pg_ctl.c and win32_port.h, leading to some compiler warnings. This should now be handled better. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
* Rationalize use of list_concat + list_copy combinations.Tom Lane2019-08-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the wake of commit 1cff1b95a, the result of list_concat no longer shares the ListCells of the second input. Therefore, we can replace "list_concat(x, list_copy(y))" with just "list_concat(x, y)". To improve call sites that were list_copy'ing the first argument, or both arguments, invent "list_concat_copy()" which produces a new list sharing no ListCells with either input. (This is a bit faster than "list_concat(list_copy(x), y)" because it makes the result list the right size to start with.) In call sites that were not list_copy'ing the second argument, the new semantics mean that we are usually leaking the second List's storage, since typically there is no remaining pointer to it. We considered inventing another list_copy variant that would list_free the second input, but concluded that for most call sites it isn't worth worrying about, given the relative compactness of the new List representation. (Note that in cases where such leakage would happen, the old code already leaked the second List's header; so we're only discussing the size of the leak not whether there is one. I did adjust two or three places that had been troubling to free that header so that they manually free the whole second List.) Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11587.1550975080@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Avoid using lcons and list_delete_first where it's easy to do so.Tom Lane2019-07-171-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, lcons was about the same speed as lappend, but with the new List implementation, that's not so; with a long List, data movement imposes an O(N) cost on lcons and list_delete_first, but not lappend. Hence, invent list_delete_last with semantics parallel to list_delete_first (but O(1) cost), and change various places to use lappend and list_delete_last where this can be done without much violence to the code logic. There are quite a few places that construct result lists using lcons not lappend. Some have semantic rationales for that; I added comments about it to a couple that didn't have them already. In many such places though, I think the coding is that way only because back in the dark ages lcons was faster than lappend. Hence, switch to lappend where this can be done without causing semantic changes. In ExecInitExprRec(), this results in aggregates and window functions that are in the same plan node being executed in a different order than before. Generally, the executions of such functions ought to be independent of each other, so this shouldn't result in visibly different query results. But if you push it, as one regression test case does, you can show that the order is different. The new order seems saner; it's closer to the order of the functions in the query text. And we never documented or promised anything about this, anyway. Also, in gistfinishsplit(), don't bother building a reverse-order list; it's easy now to iterate backwards through the original list. It'd be possible to go further towards removing uses of lcons and list_delete_first, but it'd require more extensive logic changes, and I'm not convinced it's worth it. Most of the remaining uses deal with queues that probably never get long enough to be worth sweating over. (Actually, I doubt that any of the changes in this patch will have measurable performance effects either. But better to have good examples than bad ones in the code base.) Patch by me, thanks to David Rowley and Daniel Gustafsson for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21272.1563318411@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Represent Lists as expansible arrays, not chains of cons-cells.Tom Lane2019-07-151-9/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* Fix get_actual_variable_range() to cope with broken HOT chains.Tom Lane2019-07-121-105/+178
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 3ca930fc3 modified get_actual_variable_range() to use a new "SnapshotNonVacuumable" snapshot type for selecting tuples that it would consider valid. However, because that snapshot type can accept recently-dead tuples, this caused a bug when using a recently-created index: we might accept a recently-dead tuple that is an early member of a broken HOT chain and does not actually match the index entry. Then, the data extracted from the heap tuple would not necessarily be an endpoint value of the column; it could even be NULL, leading to get_actual_variable_range() itself reporting "found unexpected null value in index". Even without an error, this could lead to poor plan choices due to an erroneous notion of the endpoint value. We can improve matters by changing the code to use the index-only scan technique (which didn't exist when get_actual_variable_range was originally written). If any of the tuples in a HOT chain are live enough to satisfy SnapshotNonVacuumable, we take the data from the index entry, ignoring what is in the heap. This fixes the problem without changing the live-vs-dead-tuple behavior from what was intended by commit 3ca930fc3. A side benefit is that for static tables we might not have to touch the heap at all (when the extremal value is in an all-visible page). In addition, we can save some overhead by not having to create a complete ExecutorState, and we don't need to run FormIndexDatum, avoiding more cycles as well as the possibility of failure for indexes on expressions. (I'm not sure that this code would ever be used to determine the extreme value of an expression, in the current state of the planner; but it's definitely possible that lower-order columns of the selected index could be expressions. So one could construct perhaps-artificial examples in which the old code unexpectedly failed due to trying to compute an expression's value for a now-dead row.) Per report from Manuel Rigger. Back-patch to v11 where commit 3ca930fc3 came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA7W4NWEhCvftdV6_8bbm2vgypi5nuxfnSEJQqVKFSUoMg@mail.gmail.com
* Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane2019-05-221-36/+36
| | | | | | | | | Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
* Use checkAsUser for selectivity estimator checks, if it's set.Dean Rasheed2019-05-061-4/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In examine_variable() and examine_simple_variable(), when checking the user's table and column privileges to determine whether to grant access to the pg_statistic data, use checkAsUser for the privilege checks, if it's set. This will be the case if we're accessing the table via a view, to indicate that we should perform privilege checks as the view owner rather than the current user. This change makes this planner check consistent with the check in the executor, so the planner will be able to make use of statistics if the table is accessible via the view. This fixes a performance regression introduced by commit e2d4ef8de8, which affects queries against non-security barrier views in the case where the user doesn't have privileges on the underlying table, but the view owner does. Note that it continues to provide the same safeguards controlling access to pg_statistic for direct table access (in which case checkAsUser won't be set) and for security barrier views, because of the nearby checks on rte->security_barrier and rte->securityQuals. Back-patch to all supported branches because e2d4ef8de8 was. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Jonathan Katz and Stephen Frost.
* Fix security checks for selectivity estimation functions with RLS.Dean Rasheed2019-05-061-6/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit e2d4ef8de8, security checks were added to prevent user-supplied operators from running over data from pg_statistic unless the user has table or column privileges on the table, or the operator is leakproof. For a table with RLS, however, checking for table or column privileges is insufficient, since that does not guarantee that the user has permission to view all of the column's data. Fix this by also checking for securityQuals on the RTE, and insisting that the operator be leakproof if there are any. Thus the leakproofness check will only be skipped if there are no securityQuals and the user has table or column privileges on the table -- i.e., only if we know that the user has access to all the data in the column. Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Jonathan Katz and Stephen Frost. Security: CVE-2019-10130
* Make queries' locking of indexes more consistent.Tom Lane2019-04-041-9/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The assertions added by commit b04aeb0a0 exposed that there are some code paths wherein the executor will try to open an index without holding any lock on it. We do have some lock on the index's table, so it seems likely that there's no fatal problem with this (for instance, the index couldn't get dropped from under us). Still, it's bad practice and we should fix it. To do so, remove the optimizations in ExecInitIndexScan and friends that tried to avoid taking a lock on an index belonging to a target relation, and just take the lock always. In non-bug cases, this will result in no additional shared-memory access, since we'll find in the local lock table that we already have a lock of the desired type; hence, no significant performance degradation should occur. Also, adjust the planner and executor so that the type of lock taken on an index is always identical to the type of lock taken for its table, by relying on the recently added RangeTblEntry.rellockmode field. This avoids some corner cases where that might not have been true before (possibly resulting in extra locking overhead), and prevents future maintenance issues from having multiple bits of logic that all needed to be in sync. In addition, this change removes all core calls to ExecRelationIsTargetRelation, which avoids a possible O(N^2) startup penalty for queries with large numbers of target relations. (We'd probably remove that function altogether, were it not that we advertise it as something that FDWs might want to use.) Also adjust some places in selfuncs.c to not take any lock on indexes they are transiently opening, since we can assume that plancat.c did that already. In passing, change gin_clean_pending_list() to take RowExclusiveLock not AccessShareLock on its target index. Although it's not clear that that's actually a bug, it seemed very strange for a function that's explicitly going to modify the index to use only AccessShareLock. David Rowley, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud and Amit Langote, a bit of further tweaking by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19465.1541636036@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Improve planner's selectivity estimates for inequalities on CTID.Tom Lane2019-03-251-0/+75
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were getting just DEFAULT_INEQ_SEL for comparisons such as "ctid >= constant", but it's possible to do a lot better if we don't mind some assumptions about the table's tuple density being reasonably uniform. There are already assumptions much like that elsewhere in the planner, so that hardly seems like much of an objection. Extracted from a patch set that also proposes to introduce a special executor node type for such queries. Not sure if that's going to make it into v12, but improving the selectivity estimate is useful independently of that. Edmund Horner, reviewed by David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMyN-kB-nFTkF=VA_JPwFNo08S0d-Yk0F741S2B7LDmYAi8eyA@mail.gmail.com
* tableam: Add and use scan APIs.Andres Freund2019-03-111-11/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Too allow table accesses to be not directly dependent on heap, several new abstractions are needed. Specifically: 1) Heap scans need to be generalized into table scans. Do this by introducing TableScanDesc, which will be the "base class" for individual AMs. This contains the AM independent fields from HeapScanDesc. The previous heap_{beginscan,rescan,endscan} et al. have been replaced with a table_ version. There's no direct replacement for heap_getnext(), as that returned a HeapTuple, which is undesirable for a other AMs. Instead there's table_scan_getnextslot(). But note that heap_getnext() lives on, it's still used widely to access catalog tables. This is achieved by new scan_begin, scan_end, scan_rescan, scan_getnextslot callbacks. 2) The portion of parallel scans that's shared between backends need to be able to do so without the user doing per-AM work. To achieve that new parallelscan_{estimate, initialize, reinitialize} callbacks are introduced, which operate on a new ParallelTableScanDesc, which again can be subclassed by AMs. As it is likely that several AMs are going to be block oriented, block oriented callbacks that can be shared between such AMs are provided and used by heap. table_block_parallelscan_{estimate, intiialize, reinitialize} as callbacks, and table_block_parallelscan_{nextpage, init} for use in AMs. These operate on a ParallelBlockTableScanDesc. 3) Index scans need to be able to access tables to return a tuple, and there needs to be state across individual accesses to the heap to store state like buffers. That's now handled by introducing a sort-of-scan IndexFetchTable, which again is intended to be subclassed by individual AMs (for heap IndexFetchHeap). The relevant callbacks for an AM are index_fetch_{end, begin, reset} to create the necessary state, and index_fetch_tuple to retrieve an indexed tuple. Note that index_fetch_tuple implementations need to be smarter than just blindly fetching the tuples for AMs that have optimizations similar to heap's HOT - the currently alive tuple in the update chain needs to be fetched if appropriate. Similar to table_scan_getnextslot(), it's undesirable to continue to return HeapTuples. Thus index_fetch_heap (might want to rename that later) now accepts a slot as an argument. Core code doesn't have a lot of call sites performing index scans without going through the systable_* API (in contrast to loads of heap_getnext calls and working directly with HeapTuples). Index scans now store the result of a search in IndexScanDesc->xs_heaptid, rather than xs_ctup->t_self. As the target is not generally a HeapTuple anymore that seems cleaner. To be able to sensible adapt code to use the above, two further callbacks have been introduced: a) slot_callbacks returns a TupleTableSlotOps* suitable for creating slots capable of holding a tuple of the AMs type. table_slot_callbacks() and table_slot_create() are based upon that, but have additional logic to deal with views, foreign tables, etc. While this change could have been done separately, nearly all the call sites that needed to be adapted for the rest of this commit also would have been needed to be adapted for table_slot_callbacks(), making separation not worthwhile. b) tuple_satisfies_snapshot checks whether the tuple in a slot is currently visible according to a snapshot. That's required as a few places now don't have a buffer + HeapTuple around, but a slot (which in heap's case internally has that information). Additionally a few infrastructure changes were needed: I) SysScanDesc, as used by systable_{beginscan, getnext} et al. now internally uses a slot to keep track of tuples. While systable_getnext() still returns HeapTuples, and will so for the foreseeable future, the index API (see 1) above) now only deals with slots. The remainder, and largest part, of this commit is then adjusting all scans in postgres to use the new APIs. Author: Andres Freund, Haribabu Kommi, Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsql
* Move estimate_hashagg_tablesize to selfuncs.c, and widen result to double.Tom Lane2019-02-211-0/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems to make more sense for this to be in selfuncs.c, since it's largely a statistical-estimation thing, and it's related to other functions like estimate_hash_bucket_stats that are there. While at it, change the result type from Size to double. Perhaps at one point it was impossible for the result to overflow an integer, but I've got no confidence in that proposition anymore. Nothing's actually done with the result except to compare it to a work_mem-based limit, so as long as we don't get an overflow on the way to that comparison, things should be fine even with very large dNumGroups. Code movement proposed by Antonin Houska, type change by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25767.1549359615@localhost
* Refactor index cost estimation functions in view of IndexClause changes.Tom Lane2019-02-151-213/+166
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Get rid of deconstruct_indexquals() in favor of just iterating over the IndexClause list directly. The extra services that that function used to provide, such as hiding clause commutation and associating the right index column with each clause, are no longer useful given the new data structure. I'd originally thought that it'd provide a useful amount of abstraction by freeing callers from paying attention to the exact clause type of each indexqual, but that hope proves to have been vain, because few callers can ignore the semantic differences between different clause types. Indeed, removing it results in a net code savings, and probably some cycles shaved by not having to build an extra list-of-structs data structure. Also, export a few formerly-static support functions, with the goal of allowing extension AMs to write functionality equivalent to genericcostestimate() without pointless code duplication. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24586.1550106354@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Simplify the planner's new representation of indexable clauses a little.Tom Lane2019-02-141-71/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 1a8d5afb0, I thought it'd be a good idea to define IndexClause.indexquals as NIL in the most common case where the given clause (IndexClause.rinfo) is usable exactly as-is. It'd be more consistent to define the indexquals in that case as being a one-element list containing IndexClause.rinfo, but I thought saving the palloc overhead for making such a list would be worthwhile. In hindsight, that was a great example of "premature optimization is the root of all evil": it's complicated everyplace that needs to deal with the indexquals, requiring duplicative code to handle both the simple case and the not-simple case. I'd initially found that tolerable but it's getting less so as I mop up some areas that I'd not touched in 1a8d5afb0. In any case, two more pallocs during a planner run are surely at the noise level (a conclusion confirmed by a bit of microbenchmarking). So let's change this decision before it becomes set in stone, and insist that IndexClause.indexquals always be a valid list of the actual index quals for the clause. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24586.1550106354@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Move pattern selectivity code from selfuncs.c to like_support.c.Tom Lane2019-02-141-1325/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While at it, refactor patternsel() a bit so that it can be used from the LIKE/regex planner support functions as well. This makes the planner able to deal equally well with either operator or function syntax for these operations. I'm not excited about that as a feature in itself, but it provides a nice model for extensions to follow if they want such behavior for their operations. This change localizes the use of pattern_fixed_prefix() and make_greater_string() so that they no longer need be exported. (We might get pushback from extensions about that, perhaps, in which case I'd be inclined to re-export them in a new header file like_support.h.) This reduces the bulk of selfuncs.c a fair amount, removing ~1370 lines or about one-sixth of that file; it's still too big, but this is progress. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24537.1550093915@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Clean up planner confusion between ncolumns and nkeycolumns.Tom Lane2019-02-121-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We're only going to consider key columns when creating indexquals, so there is no point in having the outer loops in indxpath.c iterate further than nkeycolumns. Doing so in match_pathkeys_to_index() is actually wrong, and would have caused crashes by now, except that we have no index AMs supporting both amcanorderbyop and amcaninclude. It's also wrong in relation_has_unique_index_for(). The effect there is to fail to prove uniqueness even when the index does prove it, if there are extra columns. Also future-proof examine_variable() for the day when extra columns can be expressions, and fix what's either a thinko or just an oversight in btcostestimate(): we should consider the number of key columns, not the total, when deciding whether to derate correlation. None of these things seemed important enough to risk changing in a just-before-wrap patch, but since we're past the release wrap window, time to fix 'em. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25526.1549847928@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Build out the planner support function infrastructure.Tom Lane2019-02-091-12/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support function requests for estimating the selectivity, cost, and number of result rows (if a SRF) of the target function. The lack of a way to estimate selectivity of a boolean-returning function in WHERE has been a recognized deficiency of the planner since Berkeley days. This commit finally fixes it. In addition, non-constant estimates of cost and number of output rows are now possible. We still fall back to looking at procost and prorows if the support function doesn't service the request, of course. To make concrete use of the possibility of estimating output rowcount for SRFs, this commit adds support functions for array_unnest(anyarray) and the integer variants of generate_series; the lack of plausible rowcount estimates for those, even when it's obvious to a human, has been a repeated subject of complaints. Obviously, much more could now be done in this line, but I'm mostly just trying to get the infrastructure in place. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Refactor the representation of indexable clauses in IndexPaths.Tom Lane2019-02-091-78/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In place of three separate but interrelated lists (indexclauses, indexquals, and indexqualcols), an IndexPath now has one list "indexclauses" of IndexClause nodes. This holds basically the same information as before, but in a more useful format: in particular, there is now a clear connection between an indexclause (an original restriction clause from WHERE or JOIN/ON) and the indexquals (directly usable index conditions) derived from it. We also change the ground rules a bit by mandating that clause commutation, if needed, be done up-front so that what is stored in the indexquals list is always directly usable as an index condition. This gets rid of repeated re-determination of which side of the clause is the indexkey during costing and plan generation, as well as repeated lookups of the commutator operator. To minimize the added up-front cost, the typical case of commuting a plain OpExpr is handled by a new special-purpose function commute_restrictinfo(). For RowCompareExprs, generating the new clause properly commuted to begin with is not really any more complex than before, it's just different --- and we can save doing that work twice, as the pretty-klugy original implementation did. Tracking the connection between original and derived clauses lets us also track explicitly whether the derived clauses are an exact or lossy translation of the original. This provides a cheap solution to getting rid of unnecessary rechecks of boolean index clauses, which previously seemed like it'd be more expensive than it was worth. Another pleasant (IMO) side-effect is that EXPLAIN now always shows index clauses with the indexkey on the left; this seems less confusing. This commit leaves expand_indexqual_conditions() and some related functions in a slightly messy state. I didn't bother to change them any more than minimally necessary to work with the new data structure, because all that code is going to be refactored out of existence in a follow-on patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22182.1549124950@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Refactor planner's header files.Tom Lane2019-01-291-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Create a new header optimizer/optimizer.h, which exposes just the planner functions that can be used "at arm's length", without need to access Paths or the other planner-internal data structures defined in nodes/relation.h. This is intended to provide the whole planner API seen by most of the rest of the system; although FDWs still need to use additional stuff, and more thought is also needed about just what selfuncs.c should rely on. The main point of doing this now is to limit the amount of new #include baggage that will be needed by "planner support functions", which I expect to introduce later, and which will be in relevant datatype modules rather than anywhere near the planner. This commit just moves relevant declarations into optimizer.h from other header files (a couple of which go away because everything got moved), and adjusts #include lists to match. There's further cleanup that could be done if we want to decide that some stuff being exposed by optimizer.h doesn't belong in the planner at all, but I'll leave that for another day. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Teach nulltestsel() that system columns are never NULL.Tom Lane2019-01-251-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | While it's perhaps unlikely that users would write an explicit test like "ctid IS NULL", this function is also used in range estimation, and an incorrect answer can throw off the results for tight ranges. Anyway it's not much code so we might as well do it. Edmund Horner Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMyN-kCa3BFUFrCTtQeprxTU1anCd3Pua7zXstGCKq4pXgjukw@mail.gmail.com
* Move generic snapshot related code from tqual.h to snapmgr.h.Andres Freund2019-01-211-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code in tqual.c is largely heap specific. Due to the upcoming pluggable storage work, it therefore makes sense to move it into access/heap/ (as the file's header notes, the tqual name isn't very good). But the various statically allocated snapshot and snapshot initialization functions are now (see previous commit) generic and do not depend on functions declared in tqual.h anymore. Therefore move. Also move XidInMVCCSnapshot as that's useful for future AMs, and already used outside of tqual.c. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
* Replace uses of heap_open et al with the corresponding table_* function.Andres Freund2019-01-211-2/+2
| | | | | Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
* Replace heapam.h includes with {table, relation}.h where applicable.Andres Freund2019-01-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | A lot of files only included heapam.h for relation_open, heap_open etc - replace the heapam.h include in those files with the narrower header. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
* Don't include heapam.h from others headers.Andres Freund2019-01-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | heapam.h previously was included in a number of widely used headers (e.g. execnodes.h, indirectly in executor.h, ...). That's problematic on its own, as heapam.h contains a lot of low-level details that don't need to be exposed that widely, but becomes more problematic with the upcoming introduction of pluggable table storage - it seems inappropriate for heapam.h to be included that widely afterwards. heapam.h was largely only included in other headers to get the HeapScanDesc typedef (which was defined in heapam.h, even though HeapScanDescData is defined in relscan.h). The better solution here seems to be to just use the underlying struct (forward declared where necessary). Similar for BulkInsertState. Another problem was that LockTupleMode was used in executor.h - parts of the file tried to cope without heapam.h, but due to the fact that it indirectly included it, several subsequent violations of that goal were not not noticed. We could just reuse the approach of declaring parameters as int, but it seems nicer to move LockTupleMode to lockoptions.h - that's not a perfect location, but also doesn't seem bad. As a number of files relied on implicitly included heapam.h, a significant number of files grew an explicit include. It's quite probably that a few external projects will need to do the same. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190114000701.y4ttcb74jpskkcfb@alap3.anarazel.de
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-021-1/+1
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Add text-vs-name cross-type operators, and unify name_ops with text_ops.Tom Lane2018-12-191-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that name comparison has effectively the same behavior as text comparison, we might as well merge the name_ops opfamily into text_ops, allowing cross-type comparisons to be processed without forcing a datatype coercion first. We need do little more than add cross-type operators to make the opfamily complete, and fix one or two places in the planner that assumed text_ops was a single-datatype opfamily. I chose to unify hash name_ops into hash text_ops as well, since the types have compatible hashing semantics. This allows marking the new cross-type equality operators as oprcanhash. (Note: this doesn't remove the name_ops opclasses, so there's no breakage of index definitions. Those opclasses are just reparented into the text_ops opfamily.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15938.1544377821@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Make type "name" collation-aware.Tom Lane2018-12-191-18/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "name" comparison operators now all support collations, making them functionally equivalent to "text" comparisons, except for the different physical representation of the datatype. They do, in fact, mostly share the varstr_cmp and varstr_sortsupport infrastructure, which has been slightly enlarged to handle the case. To avoid changes in the default behavior of the datatype, set name's typcollation to C_COLLATION_OID not DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID, so that by default comparisons to a name value will continue to use strcmp semantics. (This would have been the case for system catalog columns anyway, because of commit 6b0faf723, but doing this makes it true for user-created name columns as well. In particular, this avoids locale-dependent changes in our regression test results.) In consequence, tweak a couple of places that made assumptions about collatable base types always having typcollation DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID. I have not, however, attempted to relax the restriction that user- defined collatable types must have that. Hence, "name" doesn't behave quite like a user-defined type; it acts more like a domain with COLLATE "C". (Conceivably, if we ever get rid of the need for catalog name columns to be fixed-length, "name" could actually become such a domain over text. But that'd be a pretty massive undertaking, and I'm not volunteering.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15938.1544377821@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Make pg_statistic and related code account more honestly for collations.Tom Lane2018-12-141-26/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we first put in collations support, we basically punted on teaching pg_statistic, ANALYZE, and the planner selectivity functions about that. They've just used DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID independently of the actual collation of the data. It's time to improve that, so: * Add columns to pg_statistic that record the specific collation associated with each statistics slot. * Teach ANALYZE to use the column's actual collation when comparing values for statistical purposes, and record this in the appropriate slot. (Note that type-specific typanalyze functions are now expected to fill stats->stacoll with the appropriate collation, too.) * Teach assorted selectivity functions to use the actual collation of the stats they are looking at, instead of just assuming it's DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID. This should give noticeably better results in selectivity estimates for columns with nondefault collations, at least for query clauses that use that same collation (which would be the default behavior in most cases). It's still true that comparisons with explicit COLLATE clauses different from the stored data's collation won't be well-estimated, but that's no worse than before. Also, this patch does make the first step towards doing better with that, which is that it's now theoretically possible to collect stats for a collation other than the column's own collation. Patch by me; thanks to Peter Eisentraut for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14706.1544630227@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Clamp semijoin selectivity to be not more than inner-join selectivity.Tom Lane2018-11-231-118/+136
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We should never estimate the output of a semijoin to be more rows than we estimate for an inner join with the same input rels and join condition; it's obviously impossible for that to happen. However, given the relatively poor quality of our semijoin selectivity estimates --- particularly, but not only, in cases where we punt and return a default estimate --- we did often deliver such estimates. To improve matters, calculate both estimates inside eqjoinsel() and take the smaller one. The bulk of this patch is just mechanical refactoring to avoid repetitive information lookup when we call both eqjoinsel_semi and eqjoinsel_inner. The actual new behavior is just selec = Min(selec, inner_rel->rows * selec_inner); which looks a bit odd but is correct because of our different definitions for inner and semi join selectivity. There is one ensuing plan change in the regression tests, but it looks reasonable enough (and checking the actual row counts shows that the estimate moved closer to reality, not further away). Per bug #15160 from Alexey Ermakov. Although this is arguably a bug fix, I won't risk destabilizing plan choices in stable branches by back-patching. Tom Lane, reviewed by Melanie Plageman Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152395805004.19366.3107109716821067806@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.Andres Freund2018-11-201-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column, but as part of the tuple header. This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd, as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important parts of a row. Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the oid column by default. The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating that "specialness" significantly. WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0). Remove it. Removing includes: - CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out) - pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column). - restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column) - COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids. - pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first. - Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed. The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false) for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them. The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such. This obviously requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column. The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed. Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog tables). The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid, previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the line. While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other patches. Catversion bump, for obvious reasons. Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
* Introduce notion of different types of slots (without implementing them).Andres Freund2018-11-151-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upcoming work intends to allow pluggable ways to introduce new ways of storing table data. Accessing those table access methods from the executor requires TupleTableSlots to be carry tuples in the native format of such storage methods; otherwise there'll be a significant conversion overhead. Different access methods will require different data to store tuples efficiently (just like virtual, minimal, heap already require fields in TupleTableSlot). To allow that without requiring additional pointer indirections, we want to have different structs (embedding TupleTableSlot) for different types of slots. Thus different types of slots are needed, which requires adapting creators of slots. The slot that most efficiently can represent a type of tuple in an executor node will often depend on the type of slot a child node uses. Therefore we need to track the type of slot is returned by nodes, so parent slots can create slots based on that. Relatedly, JIT compilation of tuple deforming needs to know which type of slot a certain expression refers to, so it can create an appropriate deforming function for the type of tuple in the slot. But not all nodes will only return one type of slot, e.g. an append node will potentially return different types of slots for each of its subplans. Therefore add function that allows to query the type of a node's result slot, and whether it'll always be the same type (whether it's fixed). This can be queried using ExecGetResultSlotOps(). The scan, result, inner, outer type of slots are automatically inferred from ExecInitScanTupleSlot(), ExecInitResultSlot(), left/right subtrees respectively. If that's not correct for a node, that can be overwritten using new fields in PlanState. This commit does not introduce the actually abstracted implementation of different kind of TupleTableSlots, that will be left for a followup commit. The different types of slots introduced will, for now, still use the same backing implementation. While this already partially invalidates the big comment in tuptable.h, it seems to make more sense to update it later, when the different TupleTableSlot implementations actually exist. Author: Ashutosh Bapat and Andres Freund, with changes by Amit Khandekar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de
* Remove deprecated abstime, reltime, tinterval datatypes.Andres Freund2018-10-111-17/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | These types have been deprecated for a *long* time. Catversion bump, for obvious reasons. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181009192237.34wjp3nmw7oynmmr@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20171213080506.cwjkpcz3bkk6yz2u@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/25615.1513115237@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Split ExecStoreTuple into ExecStoreHeapTuple and ExecStoreBufferHeapTuple.Andres Freund2018-09-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upcoming changes introduce further types of tuple table slots, in preparation of making table storage pluggable. New storage methods will have different representation of tuples, therefore the slot accessor should refer explicitly to heap tuples. Instead of just renaming the functions, split it into one function that accepts heap tuples not residing in buffers, and one accepting ones in buffers. Previously one function was used for both, but that was a bit awkward already, and splitting will allow us to represent slot types for tuples in buffers and normal memory separately. This is split out from the patch introducing abstract slots, as this largely consists out of mechanical changes. Author: Ashutosh Bapat Reviewed-By: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180220224318.gw4oe5jadhpmcdnm@alap3.anarazel.de
* Rethink how to get float.h in old Windows API for isnan/isinfAlvaro Herrera2018-07-111-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We include <float.h> in every place that needs isnan(), because MSVC used to require it. However, since MSVC 2013 that's no longer necessary (cf. commit cec8394b5ccd), so we can retire the inclusion to a version-specific stanza in win32_port.h, where it doesn't need to pollute random .c files. The header is of course still needed in a few places for other reasons. I (Álvaro) removed float.h from a few more files than in Emre's original patch. This doesn't break the build in my system, but we'll see what the buildfarm has to say about it all. Author: Emre Hasegeli Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE2gYzyc0+5uG+Cd9-BSL7NKC8LSHLNg1Aq2=8ubjnUwut4_iw@mail.gmail.com
* Cleanup covering infrastructureTeodor Sigaev2018-04-121-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | - Explicitly forbids opclass, collation and indoptions (like DESC/ASC etc) for including columns. Throw an error if user points that. - Truncated storage arrays for such attributes to store only key atrributes, added assertion checks. - Do not check opfamily and collation for including columns in CompareIndexInfo() Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5ee72852-3c4e-ee35-e2ed-c1d053d45c08@sigaev.ru
* Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-treeTeodor Sigaev2018-04-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces INCLUDE clause to index definition. This clause specifies a list of columns which will be included as a non-key part in the index. The INCLUDE columns exist solely to allow more queries to benefit from index-only scans. Also, such columns don't need to have appropriate operator classes. Expressions are not supported as INCLUDE columns since they cannot be used in index-only scans. Index access methods supporting INCLUDE are indicated by amcaninclude flag in IndexAmRoutine. For now, only B-tree indexes support INCLUDE clause. In B-tree indexes INCLUDE columns are truncated from pivot index tuples (tuples located in non-leaf pages and high keys). Therefore, B-tree indexes now might have variable number of attributes. This patch also provides generic facility to support that: pivot tuples contain number of their attributes in t_tid.ip_posid. Free 13th bit of t_info is used for indicating that. This facility will simplify further support of index suffix truncation. The changes of above are backward-compatible, pg_upgrade doesn't need special handling of B-tree indexes for that. Bump catalog version Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with contribition by Alexander Korotkov and me Reviewed by: Peter Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra, Antonin Houska, Jeff Janes, David Rowley, Alexander Korotkov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56168952.4010101@postgrespro.ru
* Add prefix operator for TEXT type.Teodor Sigaev2018-04-031-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | The prefix operator along with SP-GiST indexes can be used as an alternative for LIKE 'word%' commands and it doesn't have a limitation of string/prefix length as B-Tree has. Bump catalog version Author: Ildus Kurbangaliev with some editorization by me Review by: Arthur Zakirov, Alexander Korotkov, and me Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20180202180327.222b04b3@wp.localdomain
* Fix assorted issues in convert_to_scalar().Tom Lane2018-03-031-46/+75
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If convert_to_scalar is passed a pair of datatypes it can't cope with, its former behavior was just to elog(ERROR). While this is OK so far as the core code is concerned, there's extension code that would like to use scalarltsel/scalargtsel/etc as selectivity estimators for operators that work on non-core datatypes, and this behavior is a show-stopper for that use-case. If we simply allow convert_to_scalar to return FALSE instead of outright failing, then the main logic of scalarltsel/scalargtsel will work fine for any operator that behaves like a scalar inequality comparison. The lack of conversion capability will mean that we can't estimate to better than histogram-bin-width precision, since the code will effectively assume that the comparison constant falls at the middle of its bin. But that's still a lot better than nothing. (Someday we should provide a way for extension code to supply a custom version of convert_to_scalar, but today is not that day.) While poking at this issue, we noted that the existing code for handling type bytea in convert_to_scalar is several bricks shy of a load. It assumes without checking that if the comparison value is type bytea, the bounds values are too; in the worst case this could lead to a crash. It also fails to detoast the input values, so that the comparison result is complete garbage if any input is toasted out-of-line, compressed, or even just short-header. I'm not sure how often such cases actually occur --- the bounds values, at least, are probably safe since they are elements of an array and hence can't be toasted. But that doesn't make this code OK. Back-patch to all supported branches, partly because author requested that, but mostly because of the bytea bugs. The change in API for the exposed routine convert_network_to_scalar() is theoretically a back-patch hazard, but it seems pretty unlikely that any third-party code is calling that function directly. Tomas Vondra, with some adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b68441b6-d18f-13ab-b43b-9a72188a4e02@2ndquadrant.com
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-021-1/+1
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* Fix neqjoinsel's behavior for semi/anti join cases.Tom Lane2017-11-291-16/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, this function estimated the selectivity as 1 minus eqjoinsel() for the negator equality operator, regardless of join type (I think there was an expectation that eqjoinsel would handle the join type). But actually this is completely wrong for semijoin cases: the fraction of the LHS that has a non-matching row is not one minus the fraction of the LHS that has a matching row. In reality a semijoin with <> will nearly always succeed: it can only fail when the RHS is empty, or it contains a single distinct value that is equal to the particular LHS value, or the LHS value is null. The only one of those things we should have much confidence in estimating is the fraction of LHS values that are null, so let's just take the selectivity as 1 minus outer nullfrac. Per coding convention, antijoin should be estimated the same as semijoin. Arguably this is a bug fix, but in view of the lack of field complaints and the risk of destabilizing plans, no back-patch. Thomas Munro, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=270ze2hVxWkJw-5eKzc3AB4C9KpH3L2kih75R5pdSogg@mail.gmail.com
* Improve planner's handling of set-returning functions in grouping columns.Tom Lane2017-11-251-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve query_is_distinct_for() to accept SRFs in the targetlist when we can prove distinctness from a DISTINCT clause. In that case the de-duplication will surely happen after SRF expansion, so the proof still works. Continue to punt in the case where we'd try to prove distinctness from GROUP BY (or, in the future, source relations). To do that, we'd have to determine whether the SRFs were in the grouping columns or elsewhere in the tlist, and it still doesn't seem worth the trouble. But this trivial change allows us to recognize that "SELECT DISTINCT unnest(foo) FROM ..." produces unique-ified output, which seems worth having. Also, fix estimate_num_groups() to consider the possibility of SRFs in the grouping columns. Its failure to do so was masked before v10 because grouping_planner() scaled up plan rowcount estimates by the estimated SRF multiplier after performing grouping. That doesn't happen anymore, which is more correct, but it means we need an adjustment in the estimate for the number of groups. Failure to do this leads to an underestimate for the number of output rows of subqueries like "SELECT DISTINCT unnest(foo)" compared to what 9.6 and earlier estimated, thus breaking plan choices in some cases. Per report from Dmitry Shalashov. Back-patch to v10 to avoid degraded plan choices compared to previous releases. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKPeCUGAeHgoh5O=SvcQxREVkoX7UdeJUMj1F5=aBNvoTa+O8w@mail.gmail.com
* Change TRUE/FALSE to true/falsePeter Eisentraut2017-11-081-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most parts of the PostgreSQL sources. The upper case spellings are only used in some files/modules. So standardize on the standard spellings. The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so those are left as is when using those APIs. In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Support arrays over domains.Tom Lane2017-09-301-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allowing arrays with a domain type as their element type was left un-done in the original domain patch, but not for any very good reason. This omission leads to such surprising results as array_agg() not working on a domain column, because the parser can't identify a suitable output type for the polymorphic aggregate. In order to fix this, first clean up the APIs of coerce_to_domain() and some internal functions in parse_coerce.c so that we consistently pass around a CoercionContext along with CoercionForm. Previously, we sometimes passed an "isExplicit" boolean flag instead, which is strictly less information; and coerce_to_domain() didn't even get that, but instead had to reverse-engineer isExplicit from CoercionForm. That's contrary to the documentation in primnodes.h that says that CoercionForm only affects display and not semantics. I don't think this change fixes any live bugs, but it makes things more consistent. The main reason for doing it though is that now build_coercion_expression() receives ccontext, which it needs in order to be able to recursively invoke coerce_to_target_type(). Next, reimplement ArrayCoerceExpr so that the node does not directly know any details of what has to be done to the individual array elements while performing the array coercion. Instead, the per-element processing is represented by a sub-expression whose input is a source array element and whose output is a target array element. This simplifies life in parse_coerce.c, because it can build that sub-expression by a recursive invocation of coerce_to_target_type(). The executor now handles the per-element processing as a compiled expression instead of hard-wired code. The main advantage of this is that we can use a single ArrayCoerceExpr to handle as many as three successive steps per element: base type conversion, typmod coercion, and domain constraint checking. The old code used two stacked ArrayCoerceExprs to handle type + typmod coercion, which was pretty inefficient, and adding yet another array deconstruction to do domain constraint checking seemed very unappetizing. In the case where we just need a single, very simple coercion function, doing this straightforwardly leads to a noticeable increase in the per-array-element runtime cost. Hence, add an additional shortcut evalfunc in execExprInterp.c that skips unnecessary overhead for that specific form of expression. The runtime speed of simple cases is within 1% or so of where it was before, while cases that previously required two levels of array processing are significantly faster. Finally, create an implicit array type for every domain type, as we do for base types, enums, etc. Everything except the array-coercion case seems to just work without further effort. Tom Lane, reviewed by Andrew Dunstan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9852.1499791473@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Distinguish selectivity of < from <= and > from >=.Tom Lane2017-09-131-120/+203
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically, the selectivity functions have simply not distinguished < from <=, or > from >=, arguing that the fraction of the population that satisfies the "=" aspect can be considered to be vanishingly small, if the comparison value isn't any of the most-common-values for the variable. (If it is, the code path that executes the operator against each MCV will take care of things properly.) But that isn't really true unless we're dealing with a continuum of variable values, and in practice we seldom are. If "x = const" would estimate a nonzero number of rows for a given const value, then it follows that we ought to estimate different numbers of rows for "x < const" and "x <= const", even if the const is not one of the MCVs. Handling this more honestly makes a significant difference in edge cases, such as the estimate for a tight range (x BETWEEN y AND z where y and z are close together). Hence, split scalarltsel into scalarltsel/scalarlesel, and similarly split scalargtsel into scalargtsel/scalargesel. Adjust <= and >= operator definitions to reference the new selectivity functions. Improve the core ineq_histogram_selectivity() function to make a correction for equality. (Along the way, I learned quite a bit about exactly why that function gives good answers, which I tried to memorialize in improved comments.) The corresponding join selectivity functions were, and remain, just stubs. But I chose to split them similarly, to avoid confusion and to prevent the need for doing this exercise again if someone ever makes them less stubby. In passing, change ineq_histogram_selectivity's clamp for extreme probability estimates so that it varies depending on the histogram size, instead of being hardwired at 0.0001. With the default histogram size of 100 entries, you still get the old clamp value, but bigger histograms should allow us to put more faith in edge values. Tom Lane, reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev and Kuntal Ghosh Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12232.1499140410@sss.pgh.pa.us