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* Separate reinitialization of shared parallel-scan state from ExecReScan.Tom Lane2017-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, the parallel executor logic did reinitialization of shared state within the ExecReScan code for parallel-aware scan nodes. This is problematic, because it means that the ExecReScan call has to occur synchronously (ie, during the parent Gather node's ReScan call). That is swimming very much against the tide so far as the ExecReScan machinery is concerned; the fact that it works at all today depends on a lot of fragile assumptions, such as that no plan node between Gather and a parallel-aware scan node is parameterized. Another objection is that because ExecReScan might be called in workers as well as the leader, hacky extra tests are needed in some places to prevent unwanted shared-state resets. Hence, let's separate this code into two functions, a ReInitializeDSM call and the ReScan call proper. ReInitializeDSM is called only in the leader and is guaranteed to run before we start new workers. ReScan is returned to its traditional function of resetting only local state, which means that ExecReScan's usual habits of delaying or eliminating child rescan calls are safe again. As with the preceding commit 7df2c1f8d, it doesn't seem to be necessary to make these changes in 9.6, which is a good thing because the FDW and CustomScan APIs are impacted. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JkByysFJNh9M349u_nNjqETuEnY_y1VUc_kJiU0bxtaQ@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
* Don't be so trusting that shm_toc_lookup() will always succeed.Tom Lane2017-06-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given the possibility of race conditions and so on, it seems entirely unsafe to just assume that shm_toc_lookup() always finds the key it's looking for --- but that was exactly what all but one call site were doing. To fix, add a "bool noError" argument, similarly to what we have in many other functions, and throw an error on an unexpected lookup failure. Remove now-redundant Asserts that a rather random subset of call sites had. I doubt this will throw any light on buildfarm member lorikeet's recent failures, because if an unnoticed lookup failure were involved, you'd kind of expect a null-pointer-dereference crash rather than the observed symptom. But you never know ... and this is better coding practice even if it never catches anything. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9697.1496675981@sss.pgh.pa.us
* 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
* Fix parallel index and index-only scans to fall back to serial.Robert Haas2017-03-08
| | | | | | | | | | | Parallel executor nodes can't assume that parallel execution will happen in every case where the plan calls for it, because it might not work out that way. However, parallel index scan and parallel index-only scan failed to do the right thing here. Repair. Amit Kapila, per a report from me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1Kq5qb_u2AOoda5XBB91vVWz90w=LgtRLgsssriS8pVTw@mail.gmail.com
* Allow index AMs to return either HeapTuple or IndexTuple format during IOS.Tom Lane2017-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, only IndexTuple format was supported for the output data of an index-only scan. This is fine for btree, which is just returning a verbatim index tuple anyway. It's not so fine for SP-GiST, which can return reconstructed data that's much larger than a page. To fix, extend the index AM API so that index-only scan data can be returned in either HeapTuple or IndexTuple format. There's other ways we could have done it, but this way avoids an API break for index AMs that aren't concerned with the issue, and it costs little except a couple more fields in IndexScanDescs. I changed both GiST and SP-GiST to use the HeapTuple method. I'm not very clear on whether GiST can reconstruct data that's too large for an IndexTuple, but that seems possible, and it's not much of a code change to fix. Per a complaint from Vik Fearing. Reviewed by Jason Li. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/49527f79-530d-0bfe-3dad-d183596afa92@2ndquadrant.fr
* Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index-only scans.Robert Haas2017-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 5262f7a4fc44f651241d2ff1fa688dd664a34874 added similar support for parallel index scans; this extends that work to index-only scans. As with parallel index scans, this requires support from the index AM, so currently parallel index-only scans will only be possible for btree indexes. Rafia Sabih, reviewed and tested by Rahila Syed, Tushar Ahuja, and Amit Kapila Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAOGQiiPEAs4C=TBp0XShxBvnWXuzGL2u++Hm1=qnCpd6_Mf8Fw@mail.gmail.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
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Change the format of the VM fork to add a second bit per page.Robert Haas2016-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new bit indicates whether every tuple on the page is already frozen. It is cleared only when the all-visible bit is cleared, and it can be set only when we vacuum a page and find that every tuple on that page is both visible to every transaction and in no need of any future vacuuming. A future commit will use this new bit to optimize away full-table scans that would otherwise be triggered by XID wraparound considerations. A page which is merely all-visible must still be scanned in that case, but a page which is all-frozen need not be. This commit does not attempt that optimization, although that optimization is the goal here. It seems better to get the basic infrastructure in place first. Per discussion, it's very desirable for pg_upgrade to automatically migrate existing VM forks from the old format to the new format. That, too, will be handled in a follow-on patch. Masahiko Sawada, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao, Amit Kapila, Simon Riggs, Andres Freund, and others, and substantially revised by me.
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
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* pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian2015-05-23
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* Add error check for lossy distance functions in index-only scans.Tom Lane2015-05-23
| | | | | Maybe we should actually support this, but for the moment let's just throw an error if the opclass tries it.
* Code review for foreign/custom join pushdown patch.Tom Lane2015-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit e7cb7ee14555cc9c5773e2c102efd6371f6f2005 included some design decisions that seem pretty questionable to me, and there was quite a lot of stuff not to like about the documentation and comments. Clean up as follows: * Consider foreign joins only between foreign tables on the same server, rather than between any two foreign tables with the same underlying FDW handler function. In most if not all cases, the FDW would simply have had to apply the same-server restriction itself (far more expensively, both for lack of caching and because it would be repeated for each combination of input sub-joins), or else risk nasty bugs. Anyone who's really intent on doing something outside this restriction can always use the set_join_pathlist_hook. * Rename fdw_ps_tlist/custom_ps_tlist to fdw_scan_tlist/custom_scan_tlist to better reflect what they're for, and allow these custom scan tlists to be used even for base relations. * Change make_foreignscan() API to include passing the fdw_scan_tlist value, since the FDW is required to set that. Backwards compatibility doesn't seem like an adequate reason to expect FDWs to set it in some ad-hoc extra step, and anyway existing FDWs can just pass NIL. * Change the API of path-generating subroutines of add_paths_to_joinrel, and in particular that of GetForeignJoinPaths and set_join_pathlist_hook, so that various less-used parameters are passed in a struct rather than as separate parameter-list entries. The objective here is to reduce the probability that future additions to those parameter lists will result in source-level API breaks for users of these hooks. It's possible that this is even a small win for the core code, since most CPU architectures can't pass more than half a dozen parameters efficiently anyway. I kept root, joinrel, outerrel, innerrel, and jointype as separate parameters to reduce code churn in joinpath.c --- in particular, putting jointype into the struct would have been problematic because of the subroutines' habit of changing their local copies of that variable. * Avoid ad-hocery in ExecAssignScanProjectionInfo. It was probably all right for it to know about IndexOnlyScan, but if the list is to grow we should refactor the knowledge out to the callers. * Restore nodeForeignscan.c's previous use of the relcache to avoid extra GetFdwRoutine lookups for base-relation scans. * Lots of cleanup of documentation and missed comments. Re-order some code additions into more logical places.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
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* Improve comment for tricky aspect of index-only scans.Jeff Davis2014-05-06
| | | | | | | | | Index-only scans avoid taking a lock on the VM buffer, which would cause a lot of contention. To be correct, that requires some intricate assumptions that weren't completely documented in the previous comment. Reviewed by Robert Haas.
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Incidental cleanup of matviews code.Tom Lane2013-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move checking for unscannable matviews into ExecOpenScanRelation, which is a better place for it first because the open relation is already available (saving a relcache lookup cycle), and second because this eliminates the problem of telling the difference between rangetable entries that will or will not be scanned by the query. In particular we can get rid of the not-terribly-well-thought-out-or-implemented isResultRel field that the initial matviews patch added to RangeTblEntry. Also get rid of entirely unnecessary scannability check in the rewriter, and a bogus decision about whether RefreshMatViewStmt requires a parse-time snapshot. catversion bump due to removal of a RangeTblEntry field, which changes stored rules.
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Fix serializable mode with index-only scans.Kevin Grittner2012-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Serializable Snapshot Isolation used for serializable transactions depends on acquiring SIRead locks on all heap relation tuples which are used to generate the query result, so that a later delete or update of any of the tuples can flag a read-write conflict between transactions. This is normally handled in heapam.c, with tuple level locking. Since an index-only scan avoids heap access in many cases, building the result from the index tuple, the necessary predicate locks were not being acquired for all tuples in an index-only scan. To prevent problems with tuple IDs which are vacuumed and re-used while the transaction still matters, the xmin of the tuple is part of the tag for the tuple lock. Since xmin is not available to the index-only scan for result rows generated from the index tuples, it is not possible to acquire a tuple-level predicate lock in such cases, in spite of having the tid. If we went to the heap to get the xmin value, it would no longer be an index-only scan. Rather than prohibit index-only scans under serializable transaction isolation, we acquire an SIRead lock on the page containing the tuple, when it was not necessary to visit the heap for other reasons. Backpatch to 9.2. Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Fix more crash-safe visibility map bugs, and improve comments.Robert Haas2012-06-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In lazy_scan_heap, we could issue bogus warnings about incorrect information in the visibility map, because we checked the visibility map bit before locking the heap page, creating a race condition. Fix by rechecking the visibility map bit before we complain. Rejigger some related logic so that we rely on the possibly-outdated all_visible_according_to_vm value as little as possible. In heap_multi_insert, it's not safe to clear the visibility map bit before beginning the critical section. The visibility map is not crash-safe unless we treat clearing the bit as a critical operation. Specifically, if the transaction were to error out after we set the bit and before entering the critical section, we could end up writing the heap page to disk (with the bit cleared) and crashing before the visibility map page made it to disk. That would be bad. heap_insert has this correct, but somehow the order of operations got rearranged when heap_multi_insert was added. Also, add some more comments to visibilitymap_test, lazy_scan_heap, and IndexOnlyNext, expounding on concurrency issues. Per extensive code review by Andres Freund, and further review by Tom Lane, who also made the original report about the bogus warnings.
* Instrument index-only scans to count heap fetches performed.Robert Haas2012-01-25
| | | | Patch by me; review by Tom Lane, Jeff Davis, and Peter Geoghegan.
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Avoid assuming that index-only scan data matches the index's rowtype.Tom Lane2011-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In general the data returned by an index-only scan should have the datatypes originally computed by FormIndexDatum. If the index opclasses use "storage" datatypes different from their input datatypes, the scan tuple will not have the same rowtype attributed to the index; but we had a hard-wired assumption that that was true in nodeIndexonlyscan.c. We'd already hacked around the issue for the one case where the types are different in btree indexes (btree name_ops), but this would definitely come back to bite us if we ever implement index-only scans in GiST. To fix, require the index AM to explicitly provide the tupdesc for the tuple it is returning. btree can just pass back the index's tupdesc, but GiST will have to work harder when and if it supports index-only scans. I had previously proposed fixing this by allowing the index AM to fill the scan tuple slot directly; but on reflection that seemed like a module layering violation, since TupleTableSlots are creatures of the executor. At least in the btree case, it would also be less efficient, since the tuple deconstruction work would occur even for rows later found to be invisible to the scan's snapshot.
* Generate index-only scan tuple descriptor from the plan node's indextlist.Tom Lane2011-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | Dept. of second thoughts: as long as we've got that tlist hanging around anyway, we can apply ExecTypeFromTL to it to get a suitable descriptor for the ScanTupleSlot. This is a nicer solution than the previous one because it eliminates some hard-wired knowledge about btree name_ops, and because it avoids the somewhat shaky assumption that we needn't set up the scan tuple descriptor in EXPLAIN_ONLY mode. It doesn't change what actually happens at run-time though, and I'm still a bit nervous about that.
* Rearrange the implementation of index-only scans.Tom Lane2011-10-11
This commit changes index-only scans so that data is read directly from the index tuple without first generating a faux heap tuple. The only immediate benefit is that indexes on system columns (such as OID) can be used in index-only scans, but this is necessary infrastructure if we are ever to support index-only scans on expression indexes. The executor is now ready for that, though the planner still needs substantial work to recognize the possibility. To do this, Vars in index-only plan nodes have to refer to index columns not heap columns. I introduced a new special varno, INDEX_VAR, to mark such Vars to avoid confusion. (In passing, this commit renames the two existing special varnos to OUTER_VAR and INNER_VAR.) This allows ruleutils.c to handle them with logic similar to what we use for subplan reference Vars. Since index-only scans are now fundamentally different from regular indexscans so far as their expression subtrees are concerned, I also chose to change them to have their own plan node type (and hence, their own executor source file).