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* Reset, not recreate, execGrouping.c style hashtables.Andres Freund2019-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This uses the facility added in the preceding commit to fix performance issues caused by rebuilding the hashtable (with its comparator expression being the most expensive bit), after every reset. That's especially important when the comparator is JIT compiled. Bug: #15592 #15486 Reported-By: Jakub Janeček, Dmitry Marakasov Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15486-05850f065da42931@postgresql.org https://postgr.es/m/20190114180423.ywhdg2iagzvh43we@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 11, where I broke this in bf6c614a2f2c5
* Refactor planner's header files.Tom Lane2019-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* Change function call information to be variable length.Andres Freund2019-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this change FunctionCallInfoData, the struct arguments etc for V1 function calls are stored in, always had space for FUNC_MAX_ARGS/100 arguments, storing datums and their nullness in two arrays. For nearly every function call 100 arguments is far more than needed, therefore wasting memory. Arg and argnull being two separate arrays also guarantees that to access a single argument, two cachelines have to be touched. Change the layout so there's a single variable-length array with pairs of value / isnull. That drastically reduces memory consumption for most function calls (on x86-64 a two argument function now uses 64bytes, previously 936 bytes), and makes it very likely that argument value and its nullness are on the same cacheline. Arguments are stored in a new NullableDatum struct, which, due to padding, needs more memory per argument than before. But as usually far fewer arguments are stored, and individual arguments are cheaper to access, that's still a clear win. It's likely that there's other places where conversion to NullableDatum arrays would make sense, e.g. TupleTableSlots, but that's for another commit. Because the function call information is now variable-length allocations have to take the number of arguments into account. For heap allocations that can be done with SizeForFunctionCallInfoData(), for on-stack allocations there's a new LOCAL_FCINFO(name, nargs) macro that helps to allocate an appropriately sized and aligned variable. Some places with stack allocation function call information don't know the number of arguments at compile time, and currently variably sized stack allocations aren't allowed in postgres. Therefore allow for FUNC_MAX_ARGS space in these cases. They're not that common, so for now that seems acceptable. Because of the need to allocate FunctionCallInfo of the appropriate size, older extensions may need to update their code. To avoid subtle breakages, the FunctionCallInfoData struct has been renamed to FunctionCallInfoBaseData. Most code only references FunctionCallInfo, so that shouldn't cause much collateral damage. This change is also a prerequisite for more efficient expression JIT compilation (by allocating the function call information on the stack, allowing LLVM to optimize it away); previously the size of the call information caused problems inside LLVM's optimizer. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180605172952.x34m5uz6ju6enaem@alap3.anarazel.de
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.Andres Freund2018-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* Make TupleTableSlots extensible, finish split of existing slot type.Andres Freund2018-11-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit completes the work prepared in 1a0586de36, splitting the old TupleTableSlot implementation (which could store buffer, heap, minimal and virtual slots) into four different slot types. As described in the aforementioned commit, this is done with the goal of making tuple table slots extensible, to allow for pluggable table access methods. To achieve runtime extensibility for TupleTableSlots, operations on slots that can differ between types of slots are performed using the TupleTableSlotOps struct provided at slot creation time. That includes information from the size of TupleTableSlot struct to be allocated, initialization, deforming etc. See the struct's definition for more detailed information about callbacks TupleTableSlotOps. I decided to rename TTSOpsBufferTuple to TTSOpsBufferHeapTuple and ExecCopySlotTuple to ExecCopySlotHeapTuple, as that seems more consistent with other naming introduced in recent patches. There's plenty optimization potential in the slot implementation, but according to benchmarking the state after this commit has similar performance characteristics to before this set of changes, which seems sufficient. There's a few changes in execReplication.c that currently need to poke through the slot abstraction, that'll be repaired once the pluggable storage patchset provides the necessary infrastructure. Author: Andres Freund and Ashutosh Bapat, with changes by Amit Khandekar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de
* Introduce notion of different types of slots (without implementing them).Andres Freund2018-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* Don't require return slots for nodes without projection.Andres Freund2018-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In a lot of nodes the return slot is not required. That can either be because the node doesn't do any projection (say an Append node), or because the node does perform projections but the projection is optimized away because the projection would yield an identical row. Slots aren't that small, especially for wide rows, so it's worthwhile to avoid creating them. It's not possible to just skip creating the slot - it's currently used to determine the tuple descriptor returned by ExecGetResultType(). So separate the determination of the result type from the slot creation. The work previously done internally ExecInitResultTupleSlotTL() can now also be done separately with ExecInitResultTypeTL() and ExecInitResultSlot(). That way nodes that aren't guaranteed to need a result slot, can use ExecInitResultTypeTL() to determine the result type of the node, and ExecAssignScanProjectionInfo() (via ExecConditionalAssignProjectionInfo()) determines that a result slot is needed, it is created with ExecInitResultSlot(). Besides the advantage of avoiding to create slots that then are unused, this is necessary preparation for later patches around tuple table slot abstraction. In particular separating the return descriptor and slot is a prerequisite to allow JITing of tuple deforming with knowledge of the underlying tuple format, and to avoid unnecessarily creating JITed tuple deforming for virtual slots. This commit removes a redundant argument from ExecInitResultTupleSlotTL(). While this commit touches a lot of the relevant lines anyway, it'd normally still not worthwhile to cause breakage, except that aforementioned later commits will touch *all* ExecInitResultTupleSlotTL() callers anyway (but fits worse thematically). Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de
* Move TupleTableSlots boolean member into one flag variable.Andres Freund2018-10-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's several reasons for this change: 1) It reduces the total size of TupleTableSlot / reduces alignment padding, making the commonly accessed members fit into a single cacheline (but we currently do not force proper alignment, so that's not yet guaranteed to be helpful) 2) Combining the booleans into a flag allows to combine read/writes from memory. 3) With the upcoming slot abstraction changes, it allows to have core and extended flags, in a memory efficient way. Author: Ashutosh Bapat and Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180220224318.gw4oe5jadhpmcdnm@alap3.anarazel.de
* Split ExecStoreTuple into ExecStoreHeapTuple and ExecStoreBufferHeapTuple.Andres Freund2018-09-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* Improve spelling of new FINALFUNC_MODIFY aggregate attribute.Tom Lane2018-05-21
| | | | | | | | I'd used SHARABLE as a value originally, but Peter Eisentraut points out that dictionaries agree that SHAREABLE is the preferred spelling. Run around and change that before it's too late. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d2e1afd4-659c-50d6-1b20-7cfd3675e909@2ndquadrant.com
* Fix type checking for support functions of parallel VARIADIC aggregates.Tom Lane2018-05-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The impact of VARIADIC on the combine/serialize/deserialize support functions of an aggregate wasn't thought through carefully. There is actually no impact, because variadicity isn't passed through to these functions (and it doesn't seem like it would need to be). However, lookup_agg_function was mistakenly told to check things as though it were passed through. The net result was that it was impossible to declare an aggregate that had both VARIADIC input and parallelism support functions. In passing, fix a runtime check in nodeAgg.c for the combine function's strictness to make its error message agree with the creation-time check. The previous message was actually backwards, and it doesn't seem like there's a good reason to have two versions of this message text anyway. Back-patch to 9.6 where parallel aggregation was introduced. Alexey Bashtanov; message fix by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f86dde87-fef4-71eb-0480-62754aaca01b@imap.cc
* Post-feature-freeze pgindent run.Tom Lane2018-04-26
| | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow tupleslots to have a fixed tupledesc, use in executor nodes.Andres Freund2018-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The reason for doing so is that it will allow expression evaluation to optimize based on the underlying tupledesc. In particular it will allow to JIT tuple deforming together with the expression itself. For that expression initialization needs to be moved after the relevant slots are initialized - mostly unproblematic, except in the case of nodeWorktablescan.c. After doing so there's no need for ExecAssignResultType() and ExecAssignResultTypeFromTL() anymore, as all former callers have been converted to create a slot with a fixed descriptor. When creating a slot with a fixed descriptor, tts_values/isnull can be allocated together with the main slot, reducing allocation overhead and increasing cache density a bit. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171206093717.vqdxe5icqttpxs3p@alap3.anarazel.de
* Do execGrouping.c via expression eval machinery, take two.Andres Freund2018-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This has a performance benefit on own, although not hugely so. The primary benefit is that it will allow for to JIT tuple deforming and comparator invocations. Large parts of this were previously committed (773aec7aa), but the commit contained an omission around cross-type comparisons and was thus reverted. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171129080934.amqqkke2zjtekd4t@alap3.anarazel.de
* Revert "Do execGrouping.c via expression eval machinery."Andres Freund2018-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 773aec7aa98abd38d6d9435913bb8e14e392c274. There's an unresolved issue in the reverted commit: It only creates one comparator function, but in for the nodeSubplan.c case we need more (c.f. FindTupleHashEntry vs LookupTupleHashEntry calls in nodeSubplan.c). This isn't too difficult to fix, but it's not entirely trivial either. The fact that the issue only causes breakage on 32bit systems shows that the current test coverage isn't that great. To avoid turning half the buildfarm red till those two issues are addressed, revert.
* Do execGrouping.c via expression eval machinery.Andres Freund2018-02-15
| | | | | | | | | This has a performance benefit on own, although not hugely so. The primary benefit is that it will allow for to JIT tuple deforming and comparator invocations. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171129080934.amqqkke2zjtekd4t@alap3.anarazel.de
* Support parallel btree index builds.Robert Haas2018-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make this work, tuplesort.c and logtape.c must also support parallelism, so this patch adds that infrastructure and then applies it to the particular case of parallel btree index builds. Testing to date shows that this can often be 2-3x faster than a serial index build. The model for deciding how many workers to use is fairly primitive at present, but it's better than not having the feature. We can refine it as we get more experience. Peter Geoghegan with some help from Rushabh Lathia. While Heikki Linnakangas is not an author of this patch, he wrote other patches without which this feature would not have been possible, and therefore the release notes should possibly credit him as an author of this feature. Reviewed by Claudio Freire, Heikki Linnakangas, Thomas Munro, Tels, Amit Kapila, me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM3SWZQKM=Pzc=CAHzRixKjp2eO5Q0Jg1SoFQqeXFQ647JiwqQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=AxWqDoVvGU7dq856S4r6sJAj6DBn7VMtigkB33N5eyg@mail.gmail.com
* Replace AclObjectKind with ObjectTypePeter Eisentraut2018-01-19
| | | | | | | | | AclObjectKind was basically just another enumeration for object types, and we already have a preferred one for that. It's only used in aclcheck_error. By using ObjectType instead, we can also give some more precise error messages, for example "index" instead of "relation". Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Expression evaluation based aggregate transition invocation.Andres Freund2018-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously aggregate transition and combination functions were invoked by special case code in nodeAgg.c, evaluating input and filters separately using the expression evaluation machinery. That turns out to not be great for performance for several reasons: - repeated expression evaluations have some cost - the transition functions invocations are poorly predicted, as commonly there are multiple aggregates in a query, resulting in the same call-stack invoking different functions. - filter and input computation had to be done separately - the special case code made it hard to implement JITing of the whole transition function invocation Address this by building one large expression that computes input, evaluates filters, and invokes transition functions. This leads to moderate speedups in queries bottlenecked by aggregate computations, and enables large speedups for similar cases once JITing is done. There's potential for further improvement: - It'd be nice if we could simplify the somewhat expensive aggstate->all_pergroups lookups. - right now there's still an advance_transition_function invocation in nodeAgg.c, leading to some code duplication. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Simplify representation of aggregate transition values a bit.Andres Freund2018-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously aggregate transition values for hash and other forms of aggregation (i.e. sort and no group by) were represented differently. Hash based aggregation used a grouping set indexed array pointing to an array of transition values, whereas other forms of aggregation used one flattened array with the index being computed out of grouping set and transition offsets. That made upcoming changes hard, so represent both as grouping set indexed array of per-group data. As a nice side-effect this also makes aggregation slightly faster, because computing offsets with `transno + (setno * numTrans)` turns out not to be that cheap (too big for x86 lea for example). Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171128003121.nmxbm2ounxzb6n2t@alap3.anarazel.de
* Fix handling of NULLs returned by aggregate combine functions.Andres Freund2017-11-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When strict aggregate combine functions, used in multi-stage/parallel aggregation, returned NULL, we didn't check for that, invoking the combine function with NULL the next round, despite it being strict. The equivalent code invoking normal transition functions has a check for that situation, which did not get copied in a7de3dc5c346. Fix the bug by adding the equivalent check. Based on a quick look I could not find any strict combine functions in core actually returning NULL, and it doesn't seem very likely external users have done so. So this isn't likely to have caused issues in practice. Add tests verifying transition / combine functions returning NULL is tested. Reported-By: Andres Freund Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171121033642.7xvmjqrl4jdaaat3@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.6, where parallel aggregation was introduced
* Change TRUE/FALSE to true/falsePeter Eisentraut2017-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Treat aggregate direct arguments as per-agg data not per-trans data.Tom Lane2017-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no reason to insist that direct arguments must match before we can merge transition states of two aggregate calls. They're only used during the finalfn call, so we can treat them as like the finalfn itself. This allows, eg, merging of select percentile_cont(0.25) within group (order by a), percentile_disc(0.5) within group (order by a) from ... This didn't matter (and could not have been tested) before we allowed state merging of OSAs otherwise. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
* Allow the built-in ordered-set aggregates to share transition state.Tom Lane2017-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The built-in OSAs all share the same transition function, so they can share transition state as long as the final functions cooperate to not do the sort step more than once. To avoid running the tuplesort object in randomAccess mode unnecessarily, add a bit of infrastructure to nodeAgg.c to let the aggregate functions find out whether the transition state is actually being shared or not. This doesn't work for the hypothetical aggregates, since those inject a hypothetical row that isn't traceable to the shared input state. So they remain marked aggfinalmodify = 'w'. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
* Repair breakage of aggregate FILTER option.Tom Lane2017-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An aggregate's input expression(s) are not supposed to be evaluated at all for a row where its FILTER test fails ... but commit 8ed3f11bb overlooked that requirement. Reshuffle so that aggregates having a filter clause evaluate their arguments separately from those without. This still gets the benefit of doing only one ExecProject in the common case of multiple Aggrefs, none of which have filters. While at it, arrange for filter clauses to be included in the common ExecProject evaluation, thus perhaps buying a little bit even when there are filters. Back-patch to v10 where the bug was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30065.1508161354@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Restore nodeAgg.c's ability to check for improperly-nested aggregates.Tom Lane2017-10-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While poking around in the aggregate logic, I noticed that commit 8ed3f11bb broke the logic in nodeAgg.c that purports to detect nested aggregates, by moving initialization of regular aggregate argument expressions out of the code segment that checks for that. You could argue that this check is unnecessary, but it's not much code so I'm inclined to keep it as a backstop against parser and planner bugs. However, there's certainly zero value in checking only some of the subexpressions. We can make the check complete again, and as a bonus make it a good deal more bulletproof against future mistakes of the same ilk, by moving it out to the outermost level of ExecInitAgg. This means we need to check only once per Agg node not once per aggregate, which also seems like a good thing --- if the check does find something wrong, it's not urgent that we report it before the plan node initialization finishes. Since this requires remembering the original length of the aggs list, I deleted a long-obsolete stanza that changed numaggs from 0 to 1. That's so old it predates our decision that palloc(0) is a valid operation, in (digs...) 2004, see commit 24a1e20f1. In passing improve a few comments. Back-patch to v10, just in case.
* Explicitly track whether aggregate final functions modify transition state.Tom Lane2017-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now, there's been hard-wired assumptions that normal aggregates' final functions never modify their transition states, while ordered-set aggregates' final functions always do. This has always been a bit limiting, and in particular it's getting in the way of improving the built-in ordered-set aggregates to allow merging of transition states. Therefore, let's introduce catalog and CREATE AGGREGATE infrastructure that lets the finalfn's behavior be declared explicitly. There are now three possibilities for the finalfn behavior: it's purely read-only, it trashes the transition state irrecoverably, or it changes the state in such a way that no more transfn calls are possible but the state can still be passed to other, compatible finalfns. There are no examples of this third case today, but we'll shortly make the built-in OSAs act like that. This change allows user-defined aggregates to explicitly disclaim support for use as window functions, and/or to prevent transition state merging, if their implementations cannot handle that. While it was previously possible to handle the window case with a run-time error check, there was not any way to prevent transition state merging, which in retrospect is something commit 804163bc2 should have provided for. But better late than never. In passing, split out pg_aggregate.c's extern function declarations into a new header file pg_aggregate_fn.h, similarly to what we've done for some other catalog headers, so that pg_aggregate.h itself can be safe for frontend files to include. This lets pg_dump use the symbolic names for relevant constants. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4834.1507849699@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix AggGetAggref() so it won't lie to aggregate final functions.Tom Lane2017-10-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we merge the transition calculations for two different aggregates, it's reasonable to assume that the transition function should not care which of those Aggref structs it gets from AggGetAggref(). It is not reasonable to make the same assumption about an aggregate final function, however. Commit 804163bc2 broke this, as it will pass whichever Aggref was first associated with the transition state in both cases. This doesn't create an observable bug so far as the core system is concerned, because the only existing uses of AggGetAggref() are in ordered-set aggregates that happen to not pay attention to anything but the input properties of the Aggref; and besides that, we disabled sharing of transition calculations for OSAs yesterday. Nonetheless, if some third-party code were using AggGetAggref() in a normal aggregate, they would be entitled to call this a bug. Hence, back-patch the fix to 9.6 where the problem was introduced. In passing, improve some of the comments about transition state sharing. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
* Prevent sharing transition states between ordered-set aggregates.Tom Lane2017-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This ought to work, but the built-in OSAs are not capable of coping, because their final-functions destructively modify their transition state (specifically, the contained tuplesort object). That was fine when those functions were written, but commit 804163bc2 moved the goalposts without telling orderedsetaggs.c. We should fix the built-in OSAs to support this, but it will take a little work, especially if we don't want to sacrifice performance in the normal non-shared-state case. Given that it took a year after 9.6 release for anyone to notice this bug, we should not prioritize sharable-state over nonsharable-state performance. And a proper fix is likely to be more complicated than we'd want to back-patch, too. Therefore, let's just put in this stop-gap patch to prevent nodeAgg.c from choosing to use shared state for OSAs. We can revert it in HEAD when we get a better fix. Report from Lukas Eder, diagnosis by me, patch by David Rowley. Back-patch to 9.6 where the problem was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
* Change tupledesc->attrs[n] to TupleDescAttr(tupledesc, n).Andres Freund2017-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that will change the layout of TupleDesc. Introducing a macro to abstract the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change that in separate step and revise it in future. Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
* Move ExecProcNode from dispatch to function pointer based model.Andres Freund2017-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows us to add stack-depth checks the first time an executor node is called, and skip that overhead on following calls. Additionally it yields a nice speedup. While it'd probably have been a good idea to have that check all along, it has become more important after the new expression evaluation framework in b8d7f053c5c2bf2a7e - there's no stack depth check in common paths anymore now. We previously relied on ExecEvalExpr() being executed somewhere. We should move towards that model for further routines, but as this is required for v10, it seems better to only do the necessary (which already is quite large). Author: Andres Freund, Tom Lane Reported-By: Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22833.1490390175@sss.pgh.pa.us https://postgr.es/m/b0af9eaa-130c-60d0-9e4e-7a135b1e0c76@dalibo.com
* Move interrupt checking from ExecProcNode() to executor nodes.Andres Freund2017-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In a followup commit ExecProcNode(), and especially the large switch it contains, will largely be replaced by a function pointer directly to the correct node. The node functions will then get invoked by a thin inline function wrapper. To avoid having to include miscadmin.h in headers - CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() - move the interrupt checks into the individual executor routines. While looking through all executor nodes, I noticed a number of arguably missing interrupt checks, add these too. Author: Andres Freund, Tom Lane Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22833.1490390175@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they flow past the right margin. By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin, then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin, if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column limit. This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers. Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak. The main changes visible in this commit are: * Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations. * No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts, sizeof, or offsetof. * No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers. * Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely. * Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed with no space separating them from the code. * Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels. * Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less than the expected column 33. On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef names that are not listed in typedefs.list. This might encourage us to put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in indent itself. There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses. I wanted to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the changes as much as practical. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent runBruce Momjian2017-05-17
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* Improve castNode notation by introducing list-extraction-specific variants.Tom Lane2017-04-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This extends the castNode() notation introduced by commit 5bcab1114 to provide, in one step, extraction of a list cell's pointer and coercion to a concrete node type. For example, "lfirst_node(Foo, lc)" is the same as "castNode(Foo, lfirst(lc))". Almost half of the uses of castNode that have appeared so far include a list extraction call, so this is pretty widely useful, and it saves a few more keystrokes compared to the old way. As with the previous patch, back-patch the addition of these macros to pg_list.h, so that the notation will be available when back-patching. Patch by me, after an idea of Andrew Gierth's. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14197.1491841216@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow avoiding tuple copy within tuplesort_gettupleslot().Andres Freund2017-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a "copy" argument to make it optional to receive a copy of caller tuple that is safe to use following a subsequent manipulating of tuplesort's state. This is a performance optimization. Most existing tuplesort_gettupleslot() callers are made to opt out of copying. Existing callers that happen to rely on the validity of tuple memory beyond subsequent manipulations of the tuplesort request their own copy. This brings tuplesort_gettupleslot() in line with tuplestore_gettupleslot(). In the future, a "copy" tuplesort_getdatum() argument may be added, that similarly allows callers to opt out of receiving their own copy of tuple. In passing, clarify assumptions that callers of other tuplesort fetch routines may make about tuple memory validity, per gripe from Tom Lane. Author: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: CAM3SWZQWZZ_N=DmmL7tKy_OUjGH_5mN=N=A6h7kHyyDvEhg2DA@mail.gmail.com
* Support hashed aggregation with grouping sets.Andrew Gierth2017-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This extends the Aggregate node with two new features: HashAggregate can now run multiple hashtables concurrently, and a new strategy MixedAggregate populates hashtables while doing sorted grouping. The planner will now attempt to save as many sorts as possible when planning grouping sets queries, while not exceeding work_mem for the estimated combined sizes of all hashtables used. No SQL-level changes are required. There should be no user-visible impact other than the new EXPLAIN output and possible changes to result ordering when ORDER BY was not used (which affected a few regression tests). The enable_hashagg option is respected. Author: Andrew Gierth Reviewers: Mark Dilger, Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87vatszyhj.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
* Faster expression evaluation and targetlist projection.Andres Freund2017-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This replaces the old, recursive tree-walk based evaluation, with non-recursive, opcode dispatch based, expression evaluation. Projection is now implemented as part of expression evaluation. This both leads to significant performance improvements, and makes future just-in-time compilation of expressions easier. The speed gains primarily come from: - non-recursive implementation reduces stack usage / overhead - simple sub-expressions are implemented with a single jump, without function calls - sharing some state between different sub-expressions - reduced amount of indirect/hard to predict memory accesses by laying out operation metadata sequentially; including the avoidance of nearly all of the previously used linked lists - more code has been moved to expression initialization, avoiding constant re-checks at evaluation time Future just-in-time compilation (JIT) has become easier, as demonstrated by released patches intended to be merged in a later release, for primarily two reasons: Firstly, due to a stricter split between expression initialization and evaluation, less code has to be handled by the JIT. Secondly, due to the non-recursive nature of the generated "instructions", less performance-critical code-paths can easily be shared between interpreted and compiled evaluation. The new framework allows for significant future optimizations. E.g.: - basic infrastructure for to later reduce the per executor-startup overhead of expression evaluation, by caching state in prepared statements. That'd be helpful in OLTPish scenarios where initialization overhead is measurable. - optimizing the generated "code". A number of proposals for potential work has already been made. - optimizing the interpreter. Similarly a number of proposals have been made here too. The move of logic into the expression initialization step leads to some backward-incompatible changes: - Function permission checks are now done during expression initialization, whereas previously they were done during execution. In edge cases this can lead to errors being raised that previously wouldn't have been, e.g. a NULL array being coerced to a different array type previously didn't perform checks. - The set of domain constraints to be checked, is now evaluated once during expression initialization, previously it was re-built every time a domain check was evaluated. For normal queries this doesn't change much, but e.g. for plpgsql functions, which caches ExprStates, the old set could stick around longer. The behavior around might still change. Author: Andres Freund, with significant changes by Tom Lane, changes by Heikki Linnakangas Reviewed-By: Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161206034955.bh33paeralxbtluv@alap3.anarazel.de
* Spelling fixesPeter Eisentraut2017-03-14
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* Fix typos in comments.Heikki Linnakangas2017-02-06
| | | | | | | | | Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching of future fixes go more smoothly. Josh Soref Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com
* Use the new castNode() macro in a number of places.Andres Freund2017-01-26
| | | | | | | | | This is far from a pervasive conversion, but it's a good starting point. Author: Peter Eisentraut, with some minor changes by me Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c5d387d9-3440-f5e0-f9d4-71d53b9fbe52@2ndquadrant.com
* Remove obsoleted code relating to targetlist SRF evaluation.Andres Freund2017-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 69f4b9c plain expression evaluation (and thus normal projection) can't return sets of tuples anymore. Thus remove code dealing with that possibility. This will require adjustments in external code using ExecEvalExpr()/ExecProject() - that should neither be hard nor very common. Author: Andres Freund and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160822214023.aaxz5l4igypowyri@alap3.anarazel.de
* Repair commit b81b5a96f424531b97cdd1dba97d9d1b9c9d372e.Robert Haas2017-01-06
| | | | | | This commit purported to use a variable hash seed for Partial HashAggregate, but actually did the opposite - it made us use a variable seed for any HashAggregate that is NOT partial. Woops.
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Fix minor oversights in nodeAgg.c.Tom Lane2016-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | aggstate->evalproj is always set up by ExecInitAgg, so there's no need to test. Doing so led Coverity to think that we might be intending "slot" to be possibly NULL here, and it quite properly complained that the rest of combine_aggregates() wasn't prepared for that. Also fix a couple of obvious thinkos in Asserts checking that "inputoff" isn't past the end of the slot. Errors introduced in commit 8ed3f11bb, so no need for back-patch.
* Fix sharing Agg transition state of DISTINCT or ordered aggs.Heikki Linnakangas2016-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a query contained two aggregates that could share the transition value, we would correctly collect the input into a tuplesort only once, but incorrectly run the transition function over the accumulated input twice, in finalize_aggregates(). That caused a crash, when we tried to call tuplesort_performsort() on an already-freed NULL tuplestore. Backport to 9.6, where sharing of transition state and this bug were introduced. Analysis by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ac5b0b69-744c-9114-6218-8300ac920e61@iki.fi