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2025-04-03Remove duplicated comment in get_relation_constraintsRichard Guo
The check for non-inheritable constraints is performed later, and the same comment is included at that point. While we're here, remove one extraneous blank line. Author: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxETi6x86S8EkH8mRfOcm2AenoE9t1pyCFVMpU34gVhF3w@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-02Change SQL-language functions to use the plan cache.Tom Lane
In the historical implementation of SQL functions (if they don't get inlined), we built plans for all the contained queries at first call within an outer query, and then re-used those plans for the duration of the outer query, and then forgot everything. This was not ideal, not least because the plans could not be customized to specific values of the function's parameters. Our plancache infrastructure seems mature enough to be used here. That will solve both the problem with not being able to build custom plans and the problem with not being able to share work across successive outer queries. Aside from those performance concerns, this change fixes a longstanding bugaboo with SQL functions: you could not write DDL that would affect later statements in the same function. That's mostly still true with new-style SQL functions, since the results of parse analysis are baked into the stored query trees (and protected by dependency records). But for old-style SQL functions, it will now work much as it does with PL/pgSQL functions, because we delay parse analysis and planning of each query until we're ready to run it. Some edge cases that require replanning are now handled better too; see for example the new rowsecurity test, where we now detect an RLS context change that was previously missed. One other edge-case change that might be worthy of a release note is that we now insist that a SQL function's result be generated by the physically-last query within it. Previously, if the last original query was deleted by a DO INSTEAD NOTHING rule, we'd be willing to take the result from the preceding query instead. This behavior was undocumented except in source-code comments, and it seems hard to believe that anyone's relying on it. Along the way to this feature, we needed a few infrastructure changes: * The plancache can now take either a raw parse tree or an analyzed-but-not-rewritten Query as the starting point for a CachedPlanSource. If given a Query, it is caller's responsibility that nothing will happen to invalidate that form of the query. We use this for new-style SQL functions, where what's in pg_proc is serialized Query(s) and we trust the dependency mechanism to disallow DDL that would break those. * The plancache now offers a way to invoke a post-rewrite callback to examine/modify the rewritten parse tree when it is rebuilding the parse trees after a cache invalidation. We need this because SQL functions sometimes adjust the parse tree to make its output exactly match the declared result type; if the plan gets rebuilt, that has to be re-done. * There is a new backend module utils/cache/funccache.c that abstracts the idea of caching data about a specific function usage (a particular function and set of input data types). The code in it is moved almost verbatim from PL/pgSQL, which has done that for a long time. We use that logic now for SQL-language functions too, and maybe other PLs will have use for it in the future. Author: Alexander Pyhalov <a.pyhalov@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8216639.NyiUUSuA9g@aivenlaptop
2025-04-02Add support for NOT ENFORCED in foreign key constraintsPeter Eisentraut
This expands the NOT ENFORCED constraint flag, previously only supported for CHECK constraints (commit ca87c415e2f), to foreign key constraints. Normally, when a foreign key constraint is created on a table, action and check triggers are added to maintain data integrity. With this patch, if a constraint is marked as NOT ENFORCED, integrity checks are no longer required, making these triggers unnecessary. Consequently, when creating a NOT ENFORCED foreign key constraint, triggers will not be created, and the constraint will be marked as NOT VALID. Similarly, if an existing foreign key constraint is changed to NOT ENFORCED, the associated triggers will be dropped, and the constraint will also be marked as NOT VALID. Conversely, if a NOT ENFORCED foreign key constraint is changed to ENFORCED, the necessary triggers will be created, and the will be changed to VALID by performing necessary validation. Since not-enforced foreign key constraints have no triggers, the shortcut used for example in psql and pg_dump to skip looking for foreign keys if the relation is known not to have triggers no longer applies. (It already didn't work for partitioned tables.) Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandra Wang <alexandra.wang.oss@gmail.com> Tested-by: Triveni N <triveni.n@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAJ_b962c5AcYW9KUt_R_ER5qs3fUGbe4az-SP-vuwPS-w-AGA@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-01Fix planner's failure to identify multiple hashable ScalarArrayOpExprsDavid Rowley
50e17ad28 (v14) and 29f45e299 (v15) made it so the planner could identify IN and NOT IN clauses which have Const lists as right-hand arguments and when an appropriate hash function is available for the data types, mark the ScalarArrayOpExpr as hashable so the executor could execute it more optimally by building and probing a hash table during expression evaluation. These commits both worked correctly when there was only a single ScalarArrayOpExpr in the given expression being processed by the planner, but when there were multiple, only the first was checked and any subsequent ones were not identified, which resulted in less optimal expression evaluation during query execution for all but the first found ScalarArrayOpExpr. Backpatch to 14, where 50e17ad28 was introduced. Author: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29a76f51-97b0-4c07-87b7-ec8e3b5345c9@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 14
2025-03-28Make group_similar_or_args() reorder clause list as little as possibleAlexander Korotkov
Currently, group_similar_or_args() permutes original positions of clauses independently on whether it manages to find any groups of similar clauses. While we are not providing any strict warranties on saving the original order of OR-clauses, it is preferred that the original order be modified as little as possible. This commit changes the reordering algorithm of group_similar_or_args() in the following way. We reorder each group of similar clauses so that the first item of the group stays in place, but all the other items are moved after it. So, if there are no similar clauses, the order of clauses stays the same. When there are some groups, only required reordering happens while the rest of the clauses remain in their places. Reported-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ac7c436-81e1-4191-9caf-b0dd70b51511%40gmail.com Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
2025-03-24Allow plugins to set a 64-bit plan identifier in PlannedStmtMichael Paquier
This field can be optionally set in a PlannedStmt through the planner hook, giving extensions the possibility to assign an identifier related to a computed plan. The backend is changed to report it in the backend entry of a process running (including the extended query protocol), with semantics and APIs to set or get it similar to what is used for the existing query ID (introduced in the backend via 4f0b0966c8). The plan ID is reset at the same timing as the query ID. Currently, this information is not added to the system view pg_stat_activity; extensions can access it through PgBackendStatus. Some patches have been proposed to provide some features in the planning area, where a plan identifier is used as a key to know the plan involved (for statistics, plan storage and manipulations, etc.), and the point of this commit is to provide an anchor in the backend that extensions can rely on for future work. The reset of the plan identifier is controlled by core and follows the same pattern as the query identifier added in 4f0b0966c8. The contents of this commit are extracted from a larger set proposed originally by Lukas Fittl, that Sami Imseih has proposed as an independent change, with a few tweaks sprinkled by me. Author: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com> Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP53Pkyow59ajFMHGpmb1BK9WHDypaWtUsS_5DoYUEfsa_Hktg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0vyWd4r35uUBUmhngv8XqeiJUkJDDKkLf5LCoWxv-t_pw@mail.gmail.com
2025-03-20Revert workarounds for -Wmissing-braces false positives on old GCCPeter Eisentraut
We have collected several instances of a workaround for GCC bug 53119, which caused false-positive compiler warnings. This bug has long been fixed, but was still seen on the buildfarm, most recently on lapwing with gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5). (The GCC bug tracker mentions that a fix was backported to 4.7.4 and 4.8.3.) That compiler no longer runs warning-free since commit 6fdd5d95634, so we don't need to keep these workarounds. And furthermore, the consensus appears to be that we don't want to keep supporting that era of platform anymore at all. This reverts the following commits: d937904cce6a3d82e4f9c2127de7b59105a134b3 506428d091760650971433f6bc083531c307b368 b449afb582bb9015bfbb85abc10ce122aef9ec70 6392f2a0968c20ecde4d27b6652703ad931fce92 bad0763a4d7be3005eae35d460c73ac4bc7ebaad 5e0c761d0a13c7b4f7c5de618ac38560d74d74d0 and makes a few similar fixes to newer code. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e170d61f-01ab-4cf9-ab68-91cd1fac62c5%40eisentraut.org Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BTgmoYEAm-KKZibAP3hSqbTFTjUd47XtVcf3xSFDpyecXX9uQ%40mail.gmail.com
2025-03-19Ensure first ModifyTable rel initialized if all are prunedAmit Langote
Commit cbc127917e introduced tracking of unpruned relids to avoid processing pruned relations, and changed ExecInitModifyTable() to initialize only unpruned result relations. As a result, MERGE statements that prune all target partitions can now lead to crashes or incorrect behavior during execution. The crash occurs because some executor code paths rely on ModifyTableState.resultRelInfo[0] being present and initialized, even when no result relations remain after pruning. For example, ExecMerge() and ExecMergeNotMatched() use the first resultRelInfo to determine the appropriate action. Similarly, ExecInitPartitionInfo() assumes that at least one result relation exists. To preserve these assumptions, ExecInitModifyTable() now includes the first result relation in the initialized result relation list if all result relations for that ModifyTable were pruned. To enable that, ExecDoInitialPruning() ensures the first relation is locked if it was pruned and locking is necessary. To support this exception to the pruning logic, PlannedStmt now includes a list of RT indexes identifying the first result relation of each ModifyTable node in the plan. This allows ExecDoInitialPruning() to check whether each such relation was pruned and, if so, lock it if necessary. Bug: #18830 Reported-by: Robins Tharakan <tharakan@gmail.com> Diagnozed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Diagnozed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18830-1f31ea1dc930d444%40postgresql.org
2025-03-15Remove table AM callback scan_bitmap_next_blockMelanie Plageman
After pushing the bitmap iterator into table-AM specific code (as part of making bitmap heap scan use the read stream API in 2b73a8cd33b7), scan_bitmap_next_block() no longer returns the current block number. Since scan_bitmap_next_block() isn't returning any relevant information to bitmap table scan code, it makes more sense to get rid of it. Now, bitmap table scan code only calls table_scan_bitmap_next_tuple(), and the heap AM implementation of scan_bitmap_next_block() is a local helper in heapam_handler.c. Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ZwCwWFeL_H3ia26bP2e7HiKLWt0ZmGXPVwPO6uXq0vaA%40mail.gmail.com
2025-03-13Fix incorrect handling of subquery pullupRichard Guo
When pulling up a subquery, if the subquery's target list items are used in grouping set columns, we need to wrap them in PlaceHolderVars. This ensures that expressions retain their separate identity so that they will match grouping set columns when appropriate. In 90947674f, we decided to wrap subquery outputs that are non-var expressions in PlaceHolderVars. This prevents const-simplification from merging them into the surrounding expressions after subquery pullup, which could otherwise lead to failing to match those subexpressions to grouping set columns, with the effect that they'd not go to null when expected. However, that left some loose ends. If the subquery's target list contains two or more identical Var expressions, we can still fail to match the Var expression to the expected grouping set expression. This is not related to const-simplification, but rather to how we match expressions to lower target items in setrefs.c. For sort/group expressions, we use ressortgroupref matching, which works well. For other expressions, we primarily rely on comparing the expressions to determine if they are the same. Therefore, we need a way to prevent setrefs.c from matching the expression to some other identical ones. To fix, wrap all subquery outputs in PlaceHolderVars if the parent query uses grouping sets, ensuring that they preserve their separate identity throughout the whole planning process. Reported-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-meSahaanKskpBn0KKxdHAXC1_EJCVWHxEodqirrGJnw@mail.gmail.com
2025-03-13Remove code setting wrap_non_vars to true for UNION ALL subqueriesRichard Guo
In pull_up_simple_subquery and pull_up_constant_function, there is code that sets wrap_non_vars to true when dealing with an appendrel member. The goal is to wrap subquery outputs that are not simple Vars in PlaceHolderVars, ensuring that what we pull up doesn't get merged into a surrounding expression during later processing, which could cause it to fail to match the expression actually available from the appendrel. However, this is unnecessary. When pulling up an appendrel child subquery, the only part of the upper query that could reference the appendrel child yet is the translated_vars list of the associated AppendRelInfo that we just made for this child. Furthermore, we do not want to force use of PHVs in the AppendRelInfo, as there is no outer join between. In fact, perform_pullup_replace_vars always sets wrap_non_vars to false before performing pullup_replace_vars on the AppendRelInfo. This patch simply removes the code that sets wrap_non_vars to true for UNION ALL subqueries. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-VXDEi1v+hZYLxpOv0riJxHsCkCH1f46tLnhonEAyGCQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-03-12Build whole-row Vars the same way during parsing and planning.Tom Lane
makeWholeRowVar() has different rules for constructing a whole-row Var depending on the kind of RTE it's representing. This turns out to be problematic because the rewriter and planner can convert view RTEs and set-returning-function RTEs into subquery RTEs; so a whole-row Var made during planning might look different from one made by the parser. In isolation this doesn't cause any problem, but if a query contains Vars made both ways for the same varno, there are cross-checks in the executor that will complain. This manifests for UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE queries that use whole-row table references. To fix, we need makeWholeRowVar() to produce the same result from an inlined RTE as it would have for the original. For an inlined view, we can use RangeTblEntry.relid to detect that this had been a view RTE. For inlined SRFs, make a data structure definition change akin to commit 47bb9db75, and say that we won't clear RangeTblEntry.functions until the end of planning. That allows makeWholeRowVar() to repeat what it would have done with the unmodified RTE. Reported-by: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@deepbluecap.com> Reported-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Diagnosed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3518c50a-ab18-482f-b916-a37263622501@deepbluecap.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-03-11Improve EXPLAIN's display of window functions.Tom Lane
Up to now we just punted on showing the window definitions used in a plan, with window function calls represented as "OVER (?)". To improve that, show the window definition implemented by each WindowAgg plan node, and reference their window names in OVER. For nameless window clauses generated by "OVER (...)", assign unique names w1, w2, etc. In passing, re-order the properties shown for a WindowAgg node so that the Run Condition (if any) appears after the Window property and before the Filter (if any). This seems more sensible since the Run Condition is associated with the Window and acts before the Filter. Thanks to David G. Johnston and Álvaro Herrera for design suggestions. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/144530.1741469955@sss.pgh.pa.us
2025-03-10Use extended stats for precise estimation of bucket size in hash joinAlexander Korotkov
Recognizing the real-life complexity where columns in the table often have functional dependencies, PostgreSQL's estimation of the number of distinct values over a set of columns can be underestimated (or much rarely, overestimated) when dealing with multi-clause JOIN. In the case of hash join, it can end up with a small number of predicted hash buckets and, as a result, picking non-optimal merge join. To improve the situation, we introduce one additional stage of bucket size estimation - having two or more join clauses estimator lookup for extended statistics and use it for multicolumn estimation. Clauses are grouped into lists, each containing expressions referencing the same relation. The result of the multicolumn estimation made over such a list is combined with others according to the caller's logic. Clauses that are not estimated are returned to the caller for further estimation. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/52257607-57f6-850d-399a-ec33a654457b%40postgrespro.ru Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Fan <zhihui.fan1213@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru> Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
2025-03-10Teach Append to consider tuple_fraction when accumulating subpaths.Alexander Korotkov
This change is dedicated to more active usage of IndexScan and parameterized NestLoop paths in partitioned cases under an Append node, as it already works with plain tables. As newly added regression tests demonstrate, it should provide more smartness to the partitionwise technique. With an indication of how many tuples are needed, it may be more meaningful to use the 'fractional branch' subpaths of the Append path list, which are more optimal for this specific number of tuples. Planning on a higher level, if the optimizer needs all the tuples, it will choose non-fractional paths. In the case when, during execution, Append needs to return fewer tuples than declared by tuple_fraction, it would not be harmful to use the 'intermediate' variant of paths. However, it will earn a considerable profit if a sensible set of tuples is selected. The change of the existing regression test demonstrates the positive outcome of this feature: instead of scanning the whole table, the optimizer prefers to use a parameterized scan, being aware of the only single tuple the join has to produce to perform the query. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAN-LCVPxnWB39CUBTgOQ9O7Dd8DrA_tpT1EY3LNVnUuvAX1NjA%40mail.gmail.com Author: Nikita Malakhov <hukutoc@gmail.com> Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Fan <zhihuifan1213@163.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
2025-03-07Rename amcancrosscomparePeter Eisentraut
After more discussion about commit ce62f2f2a0a, rename the index AM property amcancrosscompare to two separate properties amconsistentequality and amconsistentordering. Also improve the documentation and update some comments that were previously missed. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E1tngY6-0000UL-2n%40gemulon.postgresql.org
2025-03-04Avoid NullTest deduction for clone clausesRichard Guo
In commit b262ad440, we introduced an optimization that reduces an IS NOT NULL qual on a column defined as NOT NULL to constant true, and an IS NULL qual on a NOT NULL column to constant false, provided we can prove that the input expression of the NullTest is not nullable by any outer join. This deduction happens after we have generated multiple clones of the same qual condition to cope with commuted-left-join cases. However, performing the NullTest deduction for clone clauses can be unsafe, because we don't have a reliable way to determine if the input expression of a NullTest is non-nullable: nullingrel bits in clone clauses may not reflect reality, so we dare not draw conclusions from clones about whether Vars are guaranteed not-null. To fix, we check whether the given RestrictInfo is a clone clause in restriction_is_always_true and restriction_is_always_false, and avoid performing any reduction if it is. There are several ensuing plan changes in predicate.out, and we have to modify the tests to ensure that they continue to test what they are intended to. Additionally, this fix causes the test case added in f00ab1fd1 to no longer trigger the bug that commit fixed, so we also remove that test case. Back-patch to v17 where this bug crept in. Reported-by: Ronald Cruz <cruz@rentec.com> Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f5320d3d-77af-4ce8-b9c3-4715ff33f213@rentec.com Backpatch-through: 17
2025-02-27Get rid of ojrelid local variable in remove_rel_from_query()Alexander Korotkov
As spotted by Coverity, the calculation of ojrelid mixes signed and unsigned types causes possible overflow and undefined behavior. Instead of trying to fix the expression, this commit eliminates the relied local variable. The explicit branching is used to replace the -1 value. That, in turn, requires changing the signature of the remove_rel_from_eclass() function. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/914330.1740330169%40sss.pgh.pa.us Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
2025-02-25Eliminate code duplication in replace_rte_variables callbacksRichard Guo
The callback functions ReplaceVarsFromTargetList_callback and pullup_replace_vars_callback are both used to replace Vars in an expression tree that reference a particular RTE with items from a targetlist, and they both need to expand whole-tuple references and deal with OLD/NEW RETURNING list Vars. As a result, currently there is significant code duplication between these two functions. This patch introduces a new function, ReplaceVarFromTargetList, to perform the replacement and calls it from both callback functions, thereby eliminating code duplication. Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWhr=FM4X5kCPvVs-g2XEk+ceLsNtBK_zZMkqFn9vUjsw@mail.gmail.com
2025-02-25Expand virtual generated columns in the plannerRichard Guo
Commit 83ea6c540 added support for virtual generated columns that are computed on read. All Var nodes in the query that reference virtual generated columns must be replaced with the corresponding generation expressions. Currently, this replacement occurs in the rewriter. However, this approach has several issues. If a Var referencing a virtual generated column has any varnullingrels, those varnullingrels need to be propagated into the generation expression. Failing to do so can lead to "wrong varnullingrels" errors and improper outer-join removal. Additionally, if such a Var comes from the nullable side of an outer join, we may need to wrap the generation expression in a PlaceHolderVar to ensure that it is evaluated at the right place and hence is forced to null when the outer join should do so. In certain cases, such as when the query uses grouping sets, we also need a PlaceHolderVar for anything that is not a simple Var to isolate subexpressions. Failure to do so can result in incorrect results. To fix these issues, this patch expands the virtual generated columns in the planner rather than in the rewriter, and leverages the pullup_replace_vars architecture to avoid code duplication. The generation expressions will be correctly marked with nullingrel bits and wrapped in PlaceHolderVars when needed by the pullup_replace_vars callback function. This requires handling the OLD/NEW RETURNING list Vars in pullup_replace_vars_callback, as it may now deal with Vars referencing the result relation instead of a subquery. The "wrong varnullingrels" error was reported by Alexander Lakhin. The incorrect result issue and the improper outer-join removal issue were reported by Richard Guo. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/75eb1a6f-d59f-42e6-8a78-124ee808cda7@gmail.com
2025-02-19Fix freeing a child join's SpecialJoinInfoRichard Guo
In try_partitionwise_join, we try to break down the join between two partitioned relations into joins between matching partitions. To achieve this, we iterate through each pair of partitions from the two joining relations and create child join relations for them. To reduce memory accumulation during each iteration, one step we take is freeing the SpecialJoinInfos created for the child joins. A child join's SpecialJoinInfo is a copy of the parent join's SpecialJoinInfo, with some members being translated copies of their counterparts in the parent. However, when freeing the bitmapset members in a child join's SpecialJoinInfo, we failed to check whether they were translated copies. As a result, we inadvertently freed the members that were still in use by the parent SpecialJoinInfo, leading to crashes when those freed members were accessed. To fix, check if each member of the child join's SpecialJoinInfo is a translated copy and free it only if that's the case. This requires passing the parent join's SpecialJoinInfo as a parameter to free_child_join_sjinfo. Back-patch to v17 where this bug crept in. Bug: #18806 Reported-by: 孟令彬 <m_lingbin@126.com> Diagnosed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18806-d70b0c9fdf63dcbf@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 17
2025-02-17Implement Self-Join EliminationAlexander Korotkov
The Self-Join Elimination (SJE) feature removes an inner join of a plain table to itself in the query tree if it is proven that the join can be replaced with a scan without impacting the query result. Self-join and inner relation get replaced with the outer in query, equivalence classes, and planner info structures. Also, the inner restrictlist moves to the outer one with the removal of duplicated clauses. Thus, this optimization reduces the length of the range table list (this especially makes sense for partitioned relations), reduces the number of restriction clauses and, in turn, selectivity estimations, and potentially improves total planner prediction for the query. This feature is dedicated to avoiding redundancy, which can appear after pull-up transformations or the creation of an EquivalenceClass-derived clause like the below. SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE x IN (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3); SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3 WHERE t3.x = t1.x); SELECT * FROM t1,t2, t1 t3 WHERE t1.x = t2.x AND t2.x = t3.x; In the future, we could also reduce redundancy caused by subquery pull-up after unnecessary outer join removal in cases like the one below. SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE x IN (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t2.x = t1.x); Also, it can drastically help to join partitioned tables, removing entries even before their expansion. The SJE proof is based on innerrel_is_unique() machinery. We can remove a self-join when for each outer row: 1. At most, one inner row matches the join clause; 2. Each matched inner row must be (physically) the same as the outer one; 3. Inner and outer rows have the same row mark. In this patch, we use the next approach to identify a self-join: 1. Collect all merge-joinable join quals which look like a.x = b.x; 2. Add to the list above the baseretrictinfo of the inner table; 3. Check innerrel_is_unique() for the qual list. If it returns false, skip this pair of joining tables; 4. Check uniqueness, proved by the baserestrictinfo clauses. To prove the possibility of self-join elimination, the inner and outer clauses must match exactly. The relation replacement procedure is not trivial and is partly combined with the one used to remove useless left joins. Tests covering this feature were added to join.sql. Some of the existing regression tests changed due to self-join removal logic. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/64486b0b-0404-e39e-322d-0801154901f3%40postgrespro.ru Author: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Alexander Kuzmenkov <a.kuzmenkov@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Hywel Carver <hywel@skillerwhale.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@aiven.io> Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> Reviewed-by: Michał Kłeczek <michal@kleczek.org> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru> Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
2025-02-17Adjust tuples estimate for appendrelsRichard Guo
In set_append_rel_size(), we currently set rel->tuples to rel->rows for an appendrel. Generally, rel->tuples is the raw number of tuples in the relation and rel->rows is the estimated number of tuples after the relation's restriction clauses have been applied. Although an appendrel itself doesn't directly enforce any quals today, its child relations may. Therefore, setting rel->tuples equal to rel->rows for an appendrel isn't always appropriate. Doing so can lead to issues in cost estimates in some cases. For instance, when estimating the number of distinct values from an appendrel, we would not be able to adjust the estimate based on the restriction selectivity. This patch addresses this by setting an appendrel's tuples to the total number of tuples accumulated from each live child, which better aligns with reality. This is arguably a bug, but nobody has complained about that until now, so no back-patch. Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4_TG_+kVn6fjG-5GYzzukrNK57=g9eUo4gsrUG26OFawg@mail.gmail.com
2025-02-07Track unpruned relids to avoid processing pruned relationsAmit Langote
This commit introduces changes to track unpruned relations explicitly, making it possible for top-level plan nodes, such as ModifyTable and LockRows, to avoid processing partitions pruned during initial pruning. Scan-level nodes, such as Append and MergeAppend, already avoid the unnecessary processing by accessing partition pruning results directly via part_prune_index. In contrast, top-level nodes cannot access pruning results directly and need to determine which partitions remain unpruned. To address this, this commit introduces a new bitmapset field, es_unpruned_relids, which the executor uses to track the set of unpruned relations. This field is referenced during plan initialization to skip initializing certain nodes for pruned partitions. It is initialized with PlannedStmt.unprunableRelids, a new field that the planner populates with RT indexes of relations that cannot be pruned during runtime pruning. These include relations not subject to partition pruning and those required for execution regardless of pruning. PlannedStmt.unprunableRelids is computed during set_plan_refs() by removing the RT indexes of runtime-prunable relations, identified from PartitionPruneInfos, from the full set of relation RT indexes. ExecDoInitialPruning() then updates es_unpruned_relids by adding partitions that survive initial pruning. To support this, PartitionedRelPruneInfo and PartitionedRelPruningData now include a leafpart_rti_map[] array that maps partition indexes to their corresponding RT indexes. The former is used in set_plan_refs() when constructing unprunableRelids, while the latter is used in ExecDoInitialPruning() to convert partition indexes returned by get_matching_partitions() into RT indexes, which are then added to es_unpruned_relids. These changes make it possible for ModifyTable and LockRows nodes to process only relations that remain unpruned after initial pruning. ExecInitModifyTable() trims lists, such as resultRelations, withCheckOptionLists, returningLists, and updateColnosLists, to consider only unpruned partitions. It also creates ResultRelInfo structs only for these partitions. Similarly, child RowMarks for pruned relations are skipped. By avoiding unnecessary initialization of structures for pruned partitions, these changes improve the performance of updates and deletes on partitioned tables during initial runtime pruning. Due to ExecInitModifyTable() changes as described above, EXPLAIN on a plan for UPDATE and DELETE that uses runtime initial pruning no longer lists partitions pruned during initial pruning. Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFGkMSge6TgC9KQzde0ohpAycLQuV7ooitEEpbKB0O_mg@mail.gmail.com
2025-02-04Allow usage of match_orclause_to_indexcol() for joinsAlexander Korotkov
This commit allows transformation of OR-clauses into SAOP's for index scans within nested loop joins. That required the following changes. 1. Make match_orclause_to_indexcol() and group_similar_or_args() understand const-ness in the same way as match_opclause_to_indexcol(). This generally makes our approach more uniform. 2. Make match_join_clauses_to_index() pass OR-clauses to match_clause_to_index(). 3. Also switch match_join_clauses_to_index() to use list_append_unique_ptr() for adding clauses to *joinorclauses. That avoids possible duplicates when processing the same clauses with different indexes. Previously such duplicates were elimited in match_clause_to_index(), but now group_similar_or_args() each time generates distinct copies of grouped OR clauses. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdv%2BjtNwofg-p5z86jLYZUTt6tR17Wy00ta0dL%3DwHQN3ZA%40mail.gmail.com Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
2025-02-04Revise the header comment for match_clause_to_indexcol()Alexander Korotkov
Since d4378c0005e6, match_clause_to_indexcol() doesn't always return NULL for an OR clause. This commit reflects that in the function header comment. Reported-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
2025-01-31Get rid of our dependency on type "long" for memory size calculations.Tom Lane
Consistently use "Size" (or size_t, or in some places int64 or double) as the type for variables holding memory allocation sizes. In most places variables' data types were fine already, but we had an ancient habit of computing bytes from kilobytes-units GUCs with code like "work_mem * 1024L". That risks overflow on Win64 where they did not make "long" as wide as "size_t". We worked around that by restricting such GUCs' ranges, so you couldn't set work_mem et al higher than 2GB on Win64. This patch removes that restriction, after replacing such calculations with "work_mem * (Size) 1024" or variants of that. It should be noted that this patch was constructed by searching outwards from the GUCs that have MAX_KILOBYTES as upper limit. So I can't positively guarantee there are no other places doing memory-size arithmetic in int or long variables. I do however feel pretty confident that increasing MAX_KILOBYTES on Win64 is safe now. Also, nothing in our code should be dealing in multiple-gigabyte allocations without authorization from a relevant GUC, so it seems pretty likely that this search caught everything that could be at risk of overflow. Author: Vladlen Popolitov <v.popolitov@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1a01f0-66ec2d80-3b-68487680@27595217
2025-01-30Move PartitionPruneInfo out of plan nodes into PlannedStmtAmit Langote
This moves PartitionPruneInfo from plan nodes to PlannedStmt, simplifying traversal by centralizing all PartitionPruneInfo structures in a single list in it, which holds all instances for the main query and its subqueries. Instead of plan nodes (Append or MergeAppend) storing PartitionPruneInfo pointers, they now reference an index in this list. A bitmapset field is added to PartitionPruneInfo to store the RT indexes corresponding to the apprelids field in Append or MergeAppend. This allows execution pruning logic to verify that it operates on the correct plan node, mainly to facilitate debugging. Duplicated code in set_append_references() and set_mergeappend_references() is refactored into a new function, register_pruneinfo(). This updates RT indexes by applying rtoffet and adds PartitionPruneInfo to the global list in PlannerGlobal. By allowing pruning to be performed without traversing the plan tree, this change lays the groundwork for runtime initial pruning to occur independently of plan tree initialization. Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> (earlier version) Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFGkMSge6TgC9KQzde0ohpAycLQuV7ooitEEpbKB0O_mg@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-29Handle default NULL insertion a little better.Tom Lane
If a column is omitted in an INSERT, and there's no column default, the code in preptlist.c generates a NULL Const to be inserted. Furthermore, if the column is of a domain type, we wrap the Const in CoerceToDomain, so as to throw a run-time error if the domain has a NOT NULL constraint. That's fine as far as it goes, but there are two problems: 1. We're being sloppy about the type/typmod that the Const is labeled with. It really should have the domain's base type/typmod, since it's the input to CoerceToDomain not the output. This can result in coerce_to_domain inserting a useless length-coercion function (useless because it's being applied to a null). The coercion would typically get const-folded away later, but it'd be better not to create it in the first place. 2. We're not applying expression preprocessing (specifically, eval_const_expressions) to the resulting expression tree. The planner's primary expression-preprocessing pass already happened, so that means the length coercion step and CoerceToDomain node miss preprocessing altogether. This is at the least inefficient, since it means the length coercion and CoerceToDomain will actually be executed for each inserted row, though they could be const-folded away in most cases. Worse, it seems possible that missing preprocessing for the length coercion could result in an invalid plan (for example, due to failing to perform default-function-argument insertion). I'm not aware of any live bug of that sort with core datatypes, and it might be unreachable for extension types as well because of restrictions of CREATE CAST, but I'm not entirely convinced that it's unreachable. Hence, it seems worth back-patching the fix (although I only went back to v14, as the patch doesn't apply cleanly at all in v13). There are several places in the rewriter that are building null domain constants the same way as preptlist.c. While those are before the planner and hence don't have any reachable bug, they're still applying a length coercion that will be const-folded away later, uselessly wasting cycles. Hence, make a utility routine that all of these places can call to do it right. Making this code more careful about the typmod assigned to the generated NULL constant has visible but cosmetic effects on some of the plans shown in contrib/postgres_fdw's regression tests. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1865579.1738113656@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 14
2025-01-17Fix setrefs.c's failure to do expression processing on prune steps.Tom Lane
We should run the expression subtrees of PartitionedRelPruneInfo structs through fix_scan_expr. Failure to do so means that AlternativeSubPlans within those expressions won't be cleaned up properly, resulting in "unrecognized node type" errors since v14. It seems fairly likely that at least some of the other steps done by fix_scan_expr are important here as well, resulting in as-yet- undetected bugs. Therefore, I've chosen to back-patch this to all supported branches including v13, even though the known symptom doesn't manifest in v13. Per bug #18778 from Alexander Lakhin. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18778-24cd399df6c806af@postgresql.org
2025-01-16Add OLD/NEW support to RETURNING in DML queries.Dean Rasheed
This allows the RETURNING list of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE queries to explicitly return old and new values by using the special aliases "old" and "new", which are automatically added to the query (if not already defined) while parsing its RETURNING list, allowing things like: RETURNING old.colname, new.colname, ... RETURNING old.*, new.* Additionally, a new syntax is supported, allowing the names "old" and "new" to be changed to user-supplied alias names, e.g.: RETURNING WITH (OLD AS o, NEW AS n) o.colname, n.colname, ... This is useful when the names "old" and "new" are already defined, such as inside trigger functions, allowing backwards compatibility to be maintained -- the interpretation of any existing queries that happen to already refer to relations called "old" or "new", or use those as aliases for other relations, is not changed. For an INSERT, old values will generally be NULL, and for a DELETE, new values will generally be NULL, but that may change for an INSERT with an ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE clause, or if a query rewrite rule changes the command type. Therefore, we put no restrictions on the use of old and new in any DML queries. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Jian He and Jeff Davis. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWx0J0-v=Qjc6gXzR=KtsdvAE7Ow=D=mu50AgOe+pvisQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-15Rename RowCompareType to CompareTypePeter Eisentraut
RowCompareType served as a way to describe the fundamental meaning of an operator, notionally independent of an operator class (although so far this was only really supported for btrees). Its original purpose was for use inside RowCompareExpr, and it has also found some small use outside, such as for get_op_btree_interpretation(). We want to expand this now, as a more general way to describe operator semantics for other index access methods, including gist (to improve GistTranslateStratnum()) and others not written yet. To avoid future confusion, we rename the type to CompareType and the symbols from ROWCOMPARE_XXX to COMPARE_XXX to reflect their more general purpose. Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
2025-01-11Add support for NOT ENFORCED in CHECK constraintsPeter Eisentraut
This adds support for the NOT ENFORCED/ENFORCED flag for constraints, with support for check constraints. The plan is to eventually support this for foreign key constraints, where it is typically more useful. Note that CHECK constraints do not currently support ALTER operations, so changing the enforceability of an existing constraint isn't possible without dropping and recreating it. This could be added later. Author: Amul Sul <amul.sul@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Tested-by: Triveni N <triveni.n@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAJ_b962c5AcYW9KUt_R_ER5qs3fUGbe4az-SP-vuwPS-w-AGA@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-10Fix UNION planner datatype issueDavid Rowley
66c0185a3 gave the planner the ability to have union child queries provide the union planner with pre-sorted input so that UNION queries could be more efficiently implemented using Merge Append. That commit overlooked checking that the UNION target list and the union child target list's types all match. In some corner cases, this could result in the planner producing sorts using the sort operator of the top-level UNION's target list type rather than of the union child's target list's type. The implications of this range from silently working correctly, despite using the wrong sort operator all the way up to a segmentation fault. Here we fix by adjusting the planner so it makes no attempt to have the subquery produce pre-sorted results when the data type of the UNION target list and the types from the subquery target list don't match exactly. Backpatch to 17, where 66c0185a3 was introduced. Reported-by: Jason Smith <dqetool@126.com> Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Bug: 18764 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18764-63ad667ea26e877a%40postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 17
2025-01-01Fix an assortment of spelling mistakes and typosDavid Rowley
Author: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5812a0b9-b0cf-4151-9a14-d9f00e4f2858@gmail.com
2025-01-01Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 13
2024-12-20Introduce CompactAttribute array in TupleDesc, take 2David Rowley
The new compact_attrs array stores a few select fields from FormData_pg_attribute in a more compact way, using only 16 bytes per column instead of the 104 bytes that FormData_pg_attribute uses. Using CompactAttribute allows performance-critical operations such as tuple deformation to be performed without looking at the FormData_pg_attribute element in TupleDesc which means fewer cacheline accesses. For some workloads, tuple deformation can be the most CPU intensive part of processing the query. Some testing with 16 columns on a table where the first column is variable length showed around a 10% increase in transactions per second for an OLAP type query performing aggregation on the 16th column. However, in certain cases, the increases were much higher, up to ~25% on one AMD Zen4 machine. This also makes pg_attribute.attcacheoff redundant. A follow-on commit will remove it, thus shrinking the FormData_pg_attribute struct by 4 bytes. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Victor Yegorov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrBztXP3yx=NKNmo3xwFAFhEdyPnvrDg3=M0RhDs+4vYw@mail.gmail.com
2024-12-19Improve planner's handling of SetOp plans.Tom Lane
Remove the code for inserting flag columns in the inputs of a SetOp. That was the only reason why there would be resjunk columns in a set-operations plan tree, so we can get rid of some code that supported that, too. Get rid of choose_hashed_setop() in favor of building Paths for the hashed and sorted alternatives, and letting them fight it out within add_path(). Remove set_operation_ordered_results_useful(), which was giving wrong answers due to examining the wrong ancestor node: we need to examine the immediate SetOperationStmt parent not the topmost node. Instead make each caller of recurse_set_operations() pass down the relevant parent node. (This thinko seems to have led only to wasted planning cycles and possibly-inferior plans, not wrong query answers. Perhaps we should back-patch it, but I'm not doing so right now.) Teach generate_nonunion_paths() to consider pre-sorted inputs for sorted SetOps, rather than always generating a Sort node. Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo and David Rowley for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850138.1731549611@sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-12-19Convert SetOp to read its inputs as outerPlan and innerPlan.Tom Lane
The original design for set operations involved appending the two input relations into one and adding a flag column that allows distinguishing which side each row came from. Then the SetOp node pries them apart again based on the flag. This is bizarre. The only apparent reason to do it is that when sorting, we'd only need one Sort node not two. But since sorting is at least O(N log N), sorting all the data is actually worse than sorting each side separately --- plus, we have no chance of taking advantage of presorted input. On top of that, adding the flag column frequently requires an additional projection step that adds cycles, and then the Append node isn't free either. Let's get rid of all of that and make the SetOp node have two separate children, using the existing outerPlan/innerPlan infrastructure. This initial patch re-implements nodeSetop.c and does a bare minimum of work on the planner side to generate correctly-shaped plans. In particular, I've tried not to change the cost estimates here, so that the visible changes in the regression test results will only involve removal of useless projection steps and not any changes in whether to use sorted vs hashed mode. For SORTED mode, we combine successive identical tuples from each input into groups, and then merge-join the groups. The tuple comparisons now use SortSupport instead of simple equality, but the group-formation part should involve roughly the same number of tuple comparisons as before. The cross-comparisons between left and right groups probably add to that, but I'm not sure to quantify how many more comparisons we might need. For HASHED mode, nodeSetop's logic is almost the same as before, just refactored into two separate loops instead of one loop that has an assumption that it will see all the left-hand inputs first. In both modes, I added early-exit logic to not bother reading the right-hand relation if the left-hand input is empty, since neither INTERSECT nor EXCEPT modes can produce any output if the left input is empty. This could have been done before in the hashed mode, but not in sorted mode. Sorted mode can also stop as soon as it exhausts the left input; any remaining right-hand tuples cannot have matches. Also, this patch adds some infrastructure for detecting whether child plan nodes all output the same type of tuple table slot. If they do, the hash table logic can use slightly more efficient code based on assuming that that's the input slot type it will see. We'll make use of that infrastructure in other plan node types later. Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo and David Rowley for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850138.1731549611@sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-12-17Update comments about index parallel buildsTomas Vondra
Commit b43757171470 allowed parallel builds for BRIN, but left behind two comments claiming only btree indexes support parallel builds. Reported by Egor Rogov, along with similar issues in SGML docs. Backpatch to 17, where parallel builds for BRIN were introduced. Reported-by: Egor Rogov Backpatch-through: 17 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/114e2d5d-125e-07d8-94aa-5ad175fb7443@postgrespro.ru
2024-12-17Avoid unnecessary wrapping for more complex expressionsRichard Guo
When pulling up a subquery that is under an outer join, if the subquery's target list contains a strict expression that uses a subquery variable, it's okay to pull up the expression without wrapping it in a PlaceHolderVar: if the subquery variable is forced to NULL by the outer join, the expression result will come out as NULL too. If the strict expression does not contain any subquery variables, the current code always wraps it in a PlaceHolderVar. While this is not incorrect, the analysis could be tighter: if the strict expression contains any variables of rels that are under the same lowest nulling outer join as the subquery, we can also avoid wrapping it. This is safe because if the subquery variable is forced to NULL by the outer join, the variables of rels that are under the same lowest nulling outer join will also be forced to NULL, resulting in the expression evaluating to NULL as well. Therefore, it's not necessary to force the expression to be evaluated below the outer join. It could be beneficial to get rid of such PHVs because they could imply lateral dependencies, which force us to resort to nestloop joins. This patch checks if the lateral references in the strict expression contain any variables of rels under the same lowest nulling outer join as the subquery, and avoids wrapping the expression in that case. This is fundamentally a generalization of the optimizations for bare Vars and PHVs introduced in commit f64ec81a8. No backpatch as this could result in plan changes. Author: Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4_ENtfRdLaM_bXAxiKRYO7DmwDBDG4_2=VTDi0mJP-jAw@mail.gmail.com
2024-12-14Fix typoJohn Naylor
Ryo Kanbayashi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANOn0ExEQiPVrzkjULkENVac_n4Lknm6dxsU69MSncQap0kJVA%40mail.gmail.com
2024-12-12Detect redundant GROUP BY columns using UNIQUE indexesDavid Rowley
d4c3a156c added support that when the GROUP BY contained all of the columns belonging to a relation's PRIMARY KEY, all other columns belonging to that relation would be removed from the GROUP BY clause. That's possible because all other columns are functionally dependent on the PRIMARY KEY and those columns alone ensure the groups are distinct. Here we expand on that optimization and allow it to work for any unique indexes on the table rather than just the PRIMARY KEY index. This normally requires that all columns in the index are defined with NOT NULL, however, we can relax that requirement when the index is defined with NULLS NOT DISTINCT. When there are multiple suitable indexes to allow columns to be removed, we prefer the index with the least number of columns as this allows us to remove the highest number of GROUP BY columns. One day, we may want to revisit that decision as it may make more sense to use the narrower set of columns in terms of the width of the data types and stored/queried data. This also adjusts the code to make use of RelOptInfo.indexlist rather than looking up the catalog tables. In passing, add another short-circuit path to allow bailing out earlier in cases where it's certainly not possible to remove redundant GROUP BY columns. This early exit is now cheaper to do than when this code was originally written as 00b41463c made it cheaper to check for empty Bitmapsets. Patch originally by Zhang Mingli and later worked on by jian he, but after I (David) worked on it, there was very little of the original left. Author: Zhang Mingli, jian he, David Rowley Reviewed-by: jian he, Andrei Lepikhov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/327990c8-b9b2-4b0c-bffb-462249f82de0%40Spark
2024-12-12Defer remove_useless_groupby_columns() work until query_planner()David Rowley
Traditionally, remove_useless_groupby_columns() was called during grouping_planner() directly after the call to preprocess_groupclause(). While in many ways, it made sense to populate the field and remove the functionally dependent columns from processed_groupClause at the same time, it's just that doing so had the disadvantage that remove_useless_groupby_columns() was being called before the RelOptInfos were populated for the relations mentioned in the query. Not having RelOptInfos available meant we needed to manually query the catalog tables to get the required details about the primary key constraint for the table. Here we move the remove_useless_groupby_columns() call to query_planner() and put it directly after the RelOptInfos are populated. This is fine to do as processed_groupClause still isn't final at this point as it can still be modified inside standard_qp_callback() by make_pathkeys_for_sortclauses_extended(). This commit is just a refactor and simply moves remove_useless_groupby_columns() into initsplan.c. A planned follow-up commit will adjust that function so it uses RelOptInfo instead of doing catalog lookups and also teach it how to use unique indexes as proofs to expand the cases where we can remove functionally dependent columns from the GROUP BY. Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov, jian he Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqLezKwoEBBQd0dp4Y9MDkFBDbny0f3SzEeqOFoU7Z5+A@mail.gmail.com
2024-12-09Avoid unnecessary wrapping for Vars and PHVsRichard Guo
When pulling up a lateral subquery that is under an outer join, the current code always wraps a Var or PHV in the subquery's targetlist into a new PlaceHolderVar if it is a lateral reference to something outside the subquery. This is necessary when the Var/PHV references the non-nullable side of the outer join from the nullable side: we need to ensure that it is evaluated at the right place and hence is forced to null when the outer join should do so. However, if the referenced rel is under the same lowest nulling outer join, we can actually omit the wrapping. That's safe because if the subquery variable is forced to NULL by the outer join, the lateral reference variable will come out as NULL too. It could be beneficial to get rid of such PHVs because they imply lateral dependencies, which force us to resort to nestloop joins. This patch leverages the newly introduced nullingrel_info to check if the nullingrels of the subquery RTE are a subset of those of the laterally referenced rel, in order to determine if the referenced rel is under the same lowest nulling outer join. No backpatch as this could result in plan changes. Author: Richard Guo Reviewed-by: James Coleman, Dmitry Dolgov, Andrei Lepikhov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48uk6C7Z9m_FNT8_21CMCk68hrgAsz=z6zpP1PNZMkeoQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-11-30Avoid mislabeling of lateral references, redux.Tom Lane
As I'd feared, commit 5c9d8636d was still a few bricks shy of a load. We can't just leave pulled-up lateral-reference Vars with no new nullingrels: we have to carefully compute what subset of the to-be-replaced Var's nullingrels apply to them, else we still get "wrong varnullingrels" errors. This is a bit tedious, but it looks like we can use the nullingrel data this patch computes for other purposes, enabling better optimization. We don't want to inject unnecessary plan changes into stable branches though, so leave that idea for a later HEAD-only patch. Patch by me, but thanks to Richard Guo for devising a test case that broke 5c9d8636d, and for preliminary investigation about how to fix it. As before, back-patch to v16. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1tGn4j-0003zi-MP@gemulon.postgresql.org
2024-11-29Skip not SOAP-supported indexes while transforming an OR clause into SAOPAlexander Korotkov
There is no point in transforming OR-clauses into SAOP's if the target index doesn't support SAOP scans anyway. This commit adds corresponding checks to match_orclause_to_indexcol() and group_similar_or_args(). The first check fixes the actual bug, while the second just saves some cycles. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8174de69-9e1a-0827-0e81-ef97f56a5939%40gmail.com Author: Alena Rybakina Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela, Alexander Korotkov, Andrei Lepikhov
2024-11-29Fix typo in header comment for set_operation_ordered_results_usefulDavid Rowley
Reported-by: Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs492vMy3XNjDZRtqtHfFTK6HVeDwhrEQH7eXGgF_h5Jnzw@mail.gmail.com
2024-11-28Avoid mislabeling of lateral references when pulling up a subquery.Tom Lane
If we are pulling up a subquery that's under an outer join, and the subquery's target list contains a strict expression that uses both a subquery variable and a lateral-reference variable, it's okay to pull up the expression without wrapping it in a PlaceHolderVar. That's safe because if the subquery variable is forced to NULL by the outer join, the expression result will come out as NULL too, so we don't have to force that outcome by evaluating the expression below the outer join. It'd be correct to wrap in a PHV, but that can lead to very significantly worse plans, since we'd then have to use a nestloop plan to pass down the lateral reference to where the expression will be evaluated. However, when we do that, we should not mark the lateral reference variable as being nulled by the outer join, because it isn't after we pull up the expression in this way. So the marking logic added by cb8e50a4a was incorrect in this detail, leading to "wrong varnullingrels" errors from the consistency-checking logic in setrefs.c. It seems to be sufficient to just not mark lateral references at all in this case. (I have a nagging feeling that more complexity may be needed in cases where there are several levels of outer join, but some attempts to break it with that didn't succeed.) Per report from Bertrand Mamasam. Back-patch to v16, as the previous patch was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ67_UA_EVrqiFXJu9XK50baEpH=ofEPJswa2kFxg6xuSw-ww@mail.gmail.com
2024-11-28Remove useless casts to (void *)Peter Eisentraut
Many of them just seem to have been copied around for no real reason. Their presence causes (small) risks of hiding actual type mismatches or silently discarding qualifiers Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/461ea37c-8b58-43b4-9736-52884e862820@eisentraut.org