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Prior to v14, we insisted that the query in RETURN QUERY be of a type
that returns tuples. (For instance, INSERT RETURNING was allowed,
but not plain INSERT.) That happened indirectly because we opened a
cursor for the query, so spi.c checked SPI_is_cursor_plan(). As a
consequence, the error message wasn't terribly on-point, but at least
it was there.
Commit 2f48ede08 lost this detail. Instead, plain RETURN QUERY
insisted that the query be a SELECT (by checking for SPI_OK_SELECT)
while RETURN QUERY EXECUTE failed to check the query type at all.
Neither of these changes was intended.
The only convenient place to check this in the EXECUTE case is inside
_SPI_execute_plan, because we haven't done parse analysis until then.
So we need to pass down a flag saying whether to enforce that the
query returns tuples. Fortunately, we can squeeze another boolean
into struct SPIExecuteOptions without an ABI break, since there's
padding space there. (It's unlikely that any extensions would
already be using this new struct, but preserving ABI in v14 seems
like a smart idea anyway.)
Within spi.c, it seemed like _SPI_execute_plan's parameter list
was already ridiculously long, and I didn't want to make it longer.
So I thought of passing SPIExecuteOptions down as-is, allowing that
parameter list to become much shorter. This makes the patch a bit
more invasive than it might otherwise be, but it's all internal to
spi.c, so that seems fine.
Per report from Marc Bachmann. Back-patch to v14 where the
faulty code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1F2F75F0-27DF-406F-848D-8B50C7EEF06A@gmail.com
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Introduced by commit c3928b467a, backpatch to v14 like that one.
Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+HiwqFQgNLS6VGntMcuJV6erBFV425xA6wBVnY=41GK4zC0Bw@mail.gmail.com
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Improve two places in plpgsql, and one in spi.c, where an error
message would confusingly tell you that you couldn't use a SELECT
query, when what you had written *was* a SELECT query. The actual
problem is that you can't use SELECT ... INTO in these contexts,
but the messages failed to make that apparent. Special-case
SELECT INTO to make these errors more helpful.
Also, fix the same spots in plpgsql, as well as several messages
in exec_eval_expr(), to not quote the entire complained-of query or
expression in the primary error message. That behavior very easily
led to violating our message style guideline about keeping the primary
error message short and single-line. Also, since the important part
of the message was after the inserted text, it could make the real
problem very hard to see. We can report the query or expression as
the first line of errcontext instead.
Per complaint from Roger Mason. Back-patch to v14, since (a) some
of these messages are new in v14 and (b) v14's translatable strings
are still somewhat in flux. The problem's older than that of
course, but I'm hesitant to change the behavior further back.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1914708.1629474624@sss.pgh.pa.us
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The FDW batching code was using the same tuple descriptor both for all
slots (regular and plan slots), but that's incorrect - the subplan may
use a different descriptor. Currently this is benign, because batching
is used only for INSERTs, and in that case the descriptors always match.
But that would change if we allow batching UPDATEs.
Fix by copying the appropriate tuple descriptor. Backpatch to 14, where
the FDW batching was implemented.
Author: Amit Langote
Backpatch-through: 14, where FDW batching was added
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BHiwqEWd5B0-e-RvixGGUrNvGkjH2s4m95%3DJcwUnyV%3Df0rAKQ%40mail.gmail.com
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It's not sensible to re-evaluate a direct-modify Foreign Update or Delete
during EvalPlanQual. However, ExecInitForeignScan() can still get called
if a table mixes local and foreign partitions. EvalPlanQualStart() left
the es_result_relations array uninitialized in the child EPQ EState, but
ExecInitForeignScan() still expected to find it. That caused a segfault.
Fix by skipping the es_result_relations lookup during EvalPlanQual
processing. To make things a bit more robust, also skip the
BeginDirectModify calls, and add a runtime check that ExecForeignScan()
is not called on direct-modify foreign scans during EvalPlanQual
processing.
This is new in v14, commit 1375422c782. Before that, EvalPlanQualStart()
copied the whole ResultRelInfo array to the EPQ EState. Backpatch to v14.
Report and diagnosis by Andrey Lepikhov.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cb2b808d-cbaa-4772-76ee-c8809bafcf3d%40postgrespro.ru
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I failed to account for the possibility that when
ExecAppendAsyncEventWait() notifies multiple async-capable nodes using
postgres_fdw, a preceding node might invoke process_pending_request() to
process a pending asynchronous request made by a succeeding node. In
that case the succeeding node should produce a tuple to return to the
parent Append node from tuples fetched by process_pending_request() when
notified. Repair.
Per buildfarm via Michael Paquier. Back-patch to v14, like the previous
commit.
Thanks to Tom Lane for testing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YQP0UPT8KmPiHTMs%40paquier.xyz
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A pending asynchronous request is handled by process_pending_request(),
which previously not only processed an in-progress remote query but
performed ExecForeignScan() to produce a tuple to return to the local
server asynchronously from the result of the remote query. But that led
to a server crash when executing a query or led to an "InstrStartNode
called twice in a row" or "InstrEndLoop called on running node" failure
when doing EXPLAIN ANALYZE of it, in cases where the plan tree for it
contained multiple async-capable nodes accessing the same
initplan/subplan that contained multiple async-capable nodes scanning
the same foreign tables as for the parent async-capable nodes, as
reported by Andrey Lepikhov. The reason is that the second step in
process_pending_request() invoked when executing the initplan/subplan
for one of the parent async-capable nodes caused recursive execution of
the initplan/subplan for another of the parent async-capable nodes.
To fix, split process_pending_request() into the two steps and postpone
the second step until ForeignAsyncConfigureWait() is called for each of
the pending asynchronous requests. Also, in ExecAppendAsyncEventWait()
we assumed that FDWs would register at least one wait event in a
WaitEventSet created there when they were called from
ForeignAsyncConfigureWait() in that function, but allow FDWs to register
zero wait events in the WaitEventSet; modify ExecAppendAsyncEventWait()
to just return in that case.
Oversight in commit 27e1f1456. Back-patch to v14 where that commit went
in.
Andrey Lepikhov and Etsuro Fujita
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fe5eaa19-1704-e4a4-76ee-3b9d37ade399@postgrespro.ru
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The point of introducing the hash_mem_multiplier GUC was to let users
reproduce the old behavior of hash aggregation, i.e. that it could use
more than work_mem at need. However, the implementation failed to get
the job done on Win64, where work_mem is clamped to 2GB to protect
various places that calculate memory sizes using "long int". As
written, the same clamp was applied to hash_mem. This resulted in
severe performance regressions for queries requiring a bit more than
2GB for hash aggregation, as they now spill to disk and there's no
way to stop that.
Getting rid of the work_mem restriction seems like a good idea, but
it's a big job and could not conceivably be back-patched. However,
there's only a fairly small number of places that are concerned with
the hash_mem value, and it turns out to be possible to remove the
restriction there without too much code churn or any ABI breaks.
So, let's do that for now to fix the regression, and leave the
larger task for another day.
This patch does introduce a bit more infrastructure that should help
with the larger task, namely pg_bitutils.h support for working with
size_t values.
Per gripe from Laurent Hasson. Back-patch to v13 where the
behavior change came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/997817.1627074924@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MN2PR15MB25601E80A9B6D1BA6F592B1985E39@MN2PR15MB2560.namprd15.prod.outlook.com
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"Result Cache" was never a great name for this node, but nobody managed
to come up with another name that anyone liked enough. That was until
David Johnston mentioned "Node Memoization", which Tom Lane revised to
just "Memoize". People seem to like "Memoize", so let's do the rename.
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210708165145.GG1176@momjian.us
Backpatch-through: 14, where Result Cache was introduced
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Along the way make a slight adjustment to
src/include/utils/queryjumble.h to avoid an unused typedef.
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In the "simple Query" code path, it's fine for parse analysis or
execution of a utility statement to scribble on the statement's node
tree, since that'll just be thrown away afterwards. However it's
not fine if the node tree is in the plan cache, as then it'd be
corrupted for subsequent executions. Up to now we've dealt with
that by having individual utility-statement functions apply
copyObject() if they were going to modify the tree. But that's
prone to errors of omission. Bug #17053 from Charles Samborski
shows that CREATE/ALTER DOMAIN didn't get this memo, and can
crash if executed repeatedly from plan cache.
In the back branches, we'll just apply a narrow band-aid for that,
but in HEAD it seems prudent to have a more principled fix that
will close off the possibility of other similar bugs in future.
Hence, let's hoist the responsibility for doing copyObject up into
ProcessUtility from its children, thus ensuring that it happens for
all utility statement types.
Also, modify ProcessUtility's API so that its callers can tell it
whether a copy step is necessary. It turns out that in all cases,
the immediate caller knows whether the node tree is transient, so
this doesn't involve a huge amount of code thrashing. In this way,
while we lose a little bit in the execute-from-cache code path due
to sometimes copying node trees that wouldn't be mutated anyway,
we gain something in the simple-Query code path by not copying
throwaway node trees. Statements that are complex enough to be
expensive to copy are almost certainly ones that would have to be
copied anyway, so the loss in the cache code path shouldn't be much.
(Note that this whole problem applies only to utility statements.
Optimizable statements don't have the issue because we long ago made
the executor treat Plan trees as read-only. Perhaps someday we will
make utility statement execution act likewise, but I'm not holding
my breath.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/931771.1623893989@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17053-3ca3f501bbc212b4@postgresql.org
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Commit b676ac443b optimized handling of tuple slots with bulk inserts
into foreign tables, so that the slots are initialized only once and
reused for all batches. The data was however copied into the slots only
after the initialization, inserting duplicate values when the slot gets
reused. Fixed by moving the ExecCopySlot outside the init branch.
The existing postgres_fdw tests failed to catch this due to inserting
data into foreign tables without unique indexes, and then checking only
the number of inserted rows. This adds a new test with both a unique
index and a check of inserted values.
Reported-by: Alexander Pyhalov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7a8cf8d56b3d18e5c0bccd6cd42d04ac%40postgrespro.ru
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Commit b663a41363 introduced bulk inserts for FDW, but the handling of
tuple slots turned out to be problematic for two reasons. Firstly, the
slots were re-created for each individual batch. Secondly, all slots
referenced the same tuple descriptor - with reasonably small batches
this is not an issue, but with large batches this triggers O(N^2)
behavior in the resource owner code.
These two issues work against each other - to reduce the number of times
a slot has to be created/dropped, larger batches are needed. However,
the larger the batch, the more expensive the resource owner gets. For
practical batch sizes (100 - 1000) this would not be a big problem, as
the benefits (latency savings) greatly exceed the resource owner costs.
But for extremely large batches it might be much worse, possibly even
losing with non-batching mode.
Fixed by initializing tuple slots only once (and reusing them across
batches) and by using a new tuple descriptor copy for each slot.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ebbbcc7d-4286-8c28-0272-61b4753af761%40enterprisedb.com
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We've accumulated quite a mix of instances of "an SQL" and "a SQL" in the
documents. It would be good to be a bit more consistent with these.
The most recent version of the SQL standard I looked at seems to prefer
"an SQL". That seems like a good lead to follow, so here we change all
instances of "a SQL" to become "an SQL". Most instances correctly use
"an SQL" already, so it also makes sense to use the dominant variation in
order to minimise churn.
Additionally, there were some other abbreviations that needed to be
adjusted. FSM, SSPI, SRF and a few others. Also fix some pronounceable,
abbreviations to use "a" instead of "an". For example, "a SASL" instead
of "an SASL".
Here I've only adjusted the documents and error messages. Many others
still exist in source code comments. Translator hint comments seem to be
the biggest culprit. It currently does not seem worth the churn to change
these.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpML27UqFXnrYO1MJddsKVMQoiZisPvsAGhKE_tsKXquw%40mail.gmail.com
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Commit 2453ea142 redefined pg_proc.proargtypes to include the types of
OUT parameters, for procedures only. While that had some advantages
for implementing the SQL-spec behavior of DROP PROCEDURE, it was pretty
disastrous from a number of other perspectives. Notably, since the
primary key of pg_proc is name + proargtypes, this made it possible to
have multiple procedures with identical names + input arguments and
differing output argument types. That would make it impossible to call
any one of the procedures by writing just NULL (or "?", or any other
data-type-free notation) for the output argument(s). The change also
seems likely to cause grave confusion for client applications that
examine pg_proc and expect the traditional definition of proargtypes.
Hence, revert the definition of proargtypes to what it was, and
undo a number of complications that had been added to support that.
To support the SQL-spec behavior of DROP PROCEDURE, when there are
no argmode markers in the command's parameter list, we perform the
lookup both ways (that is, matching against both proargtypes and
proallargtypes), succeeding if we get just one unique match.
In principle this could result in ambiguous-function failures
that would not happen when using only one of the two rules.
However, overloading of procedure names is thought to be a pretty
rare usage, so this shouldn't cause many problems in practice.
Postgres-specific code such as pg_dump can defend against any
possibility of such failures by being careful to specify argmodes
for all procedure arguments.
This also fixes a few other bugs in the area of CALL statements
with named parameters, and improves the documentation a little.
catversion bump forced because the representation of procedures
with OUT arguments changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3742981.1621533210@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Previously, we left the EPQ sub-executor alone until ExecEndLockRows.
This caused any buffer pins or other resources that it might hold to
remain held until ExecutorEnd, which in some code paths means that
they are held till the Portal is closed. That can cause user-visible
problems, such as blocking VACUUM; and it's unlike the behavior of
ordinary table-scanning nodes, which will have released all buffer
pins by the time they return an EOF indication.
We can make LockRows work more like other plan nodes by calling
EvalPlanQualEnd just before returning NULL. We still need to call it
in ExecEndLockRows in case the node was not run to completion, but in
the normal case the second call does nothing and costs little.
Per report from Yura Sokolov. In principle this is a longstanding
bug, but in view of the lack of other complaints and the low severity
of the consequences, I chose not to back-patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4aa370cb91ecf2f9885d98b80ad1109c@postgrespro.ru
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In cases where run-time pruning isn't required, the synchronous and
asynchronous subplans for an async-aware Append node determined using
classify_matching_subplans() should be re-used when rescanning the node,
but the previous code re-determined them using that function repeatedly
each time when rescanning the node, leading to incorrect results in a
normal build and an Assert failure in an Assert-enabled build as that
function doesn't assume that it's called repeatedly in such cases. Fix
the code as mentioned above.
My oversight in commit 27e1f1456.
While at it, initialize async-related pointers/variables to NULL/zero
explicitly in ExecInitAppend() and ExecReScanAppend(), just to be sure.
(The variables would have been set to zero before we get to the latter
function, but let's do so.)
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK16Q4B2_KY%2BJH7rb7wQbw54AUprp7TMekGTd2T1B62yysQ%40mail.gmail.com
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When the planner considered using a Result Cache node to cache results
from the inner side of a Nested Loop Join, it failed to consider that the
inner path's parameterization may not be the entire join condition. If
the join was marked as inner_unique then we may accidentally put the cache
in singlerow mode. This meant that entries would be marked as complete
after caching the first row. That was wrong as if only part of the join
condition was parameterized then the uniqueness of the unique join was not
guaranteed at the Result Cache's level. The uniqueness is only guaranteed
after Nested Loop applies the join filter. If subsequent rows were found,
this would lead to:
ERROR: cache entry already complete
This could have been fixed by only putting the cache in singlerow mode if
the entire join condition was parameterized. However, Nested Loop will
only read its inner side so far as the first matching row when the join is
unique, so that might mean we never get an opportunity to mark cache
entries as complete. Since non-complete cache entries are useless for
subsequent lookups, we just don't bother considering a Result Cache path
in this case.
In passing, remove the XXX comment that claimed the above ERROR might be
better suited to be an Assert. After there being an actual case which
triggered it, it seems better to keep it an ERROR.
Reported-by: David Christensen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOxo6X+dy-V58iEPFgst8ahPKEU+38NZzUuc+a7wDBZd4TrHMQ@mail.gmail.com
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We consider this supported (though I've got my doubts that it's a
good idea, because tableoid is not immutable). However, several
code paths failed to fill the field in soon enough, causing such
a GENERATED expression to see zero or the wrong value. This
occurred when ALTER TABLE adds a new GENERATED column to a table
with existing rows, and during regular INSERT or UPDATE on a
foreign table with GENERATED columns.
Noted during investigation of a report from Vitaly Ustinov.
Back-patch to v12 where GENERATED came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM_DEiWR2DPT6U4xb-Ehigozzd3n3G37ZB1+867zbsEVtYoJww@mail.gmail.com
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COMMIT/ROLLBACK necessarily destroys all snapshots within the session.
The original implementation of intra-procedure transactions just
cavalierly did that, ignoring the fact that this left us executing in
a rather different environment than normal. In particular, it turns
out that handling of toasted datums depends rather critically on there
being an outer ActiveSnapshot: otherwise, when SPI or the core
executor pop whatever snapshot they used and return, it's unsafe to
dereference any toasted datums that may appear in the query result.
It's possible to demonstrate "no known snapshots" and "missing chunk
number N for toast value" errors as a result of this oversight.
Historically this outer snapshot has been held by the Portal code,
and that seems like a good plan to preserve. So add infrastructure
to pquery.c to allow re-establishing the Portal-owned snapshot if it's
not there anymore, and add enough bookkeeping support that we can tell
whether it is or not.
We can't, however, just re-establish the Portal snapshot as part of
COMMIT/ROLLBACK. As in normal transaction start, acquiring the first
snapshot should wait until after SET and LOCK commands. Hence, teach
spi.c about doing this at the right time. (Note that this patch
doesn't fix the problem for any PLs that try to run intra-procedure
transactions without using SPI to execute SQL commands.)
This makes SPI's no_snapshots parameter rather a misnomer, so in HEAD,
rename that to allow_nonatomic.
replication/logical/worker.c also needs some fixes, because it wasn't
careful to hold a snapshot open around AFTER trigger execution.
That code doesn't use a Portal, which I suspect someday we're gonna
have to fix. But for now, just rearrange the order of operations.
This includes back-patching the recent addition of finish_estate()
to centralize the cleanup logic there.
This also back-patches commit 2ecfeda3e into v13, to improve the
test coverage for worker.c (it was that test that exposed that
worker.c's snapshot management is wrong).
Per bug #15990 from Andreas Wicht. Back-patch to v11 where
intra-procedure COMMIT was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15990-eee2ac466b11293d@postgresql.org
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This seems to be leftover from ea15e1867 and from when we used to evaluate
SRFs at each node.
Since there is an unconditional "return" at the end of the loop body, only
1 loop is ever possible, so we can just change this into an if condition.
There is no actual bug being fixed here so no back-patch. It seems fine to
just fix this anomaly in master only.
Author: Greg Nancarrow
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-d7T1q0az-D8evWXnsuBZjigT04WkV5hCAOEJQZRWy28w@mail.gmail.com
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Also "make reformat-dat-files".
The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting
of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that
that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
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EXPLAIN ANALYZE for an async-capable ForeignScan node associated with
postgres_fdw is done just by using instrumentation for ExecProcNode()
called from the node's callbacks, causing the following problems:
1) If the remote table to scan is empty, the node is incorrectly
considered as "never executed" by the command even if the node is
executed, as ExecProcNode() isn't called from the node's callbacks at
all in that case.
2) The command fails to collect timings for things other than
ExecProcNode() done in the node, such as creating a cursor for the
node's remote query.
To fix these problems, add instrumentation for async-capable nodes, and
modify postgres_fdw accordingly.
My oversight in commit 27e1f1456.
While at it, update a comment for the AsyncRequest struct in execnodes.h
and the documentation for the ForeignAsyncRequest API in fdwhandler.sgml
to match the code in ExecAsyncAppendResponse() in nodeAppend.c, and fix
typos in comments in nodeAppend.c.
Per report from Andrey Lepikhov, though I didn't use his patch.
Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2eb662bb-105d-fc20-7412-2f027cc3ca72%40postgrespro.ru
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It's unusual to have any resjunk columns in an ON CONFLICT ... UPDATE
list, but it can happen when MULTIEXPR_SUBLINK SubPlans are present.
If it happens, the ON CONFLICT UPDATE code path would end up storing
tuples that include the values of the extra resjunk columns. That's
fairly harmless in the short run, but if new columns are added to
the table then the values would become accessible, possibly leading
to malfunctions if they don't match the datatypes of the new columns.
This had escaped notice through a confluence of missing sanity checks,
including
* There's no cross-check that a tuple presented to heap_insert or
heap_update matches the table rowtype. While it's difficult to
check that fully at reasonable cost, we can easily add assertions
that there aren't too many columns.
* The output-column-assignment cases in execExprInterp.c lacked
any sanity checks on the output column numbers, which seems like
an oversight considering there are plenty of assertion checks on
input column numbers. Add assertions there too.
* We failed to apply nodeModifyTable's ExecCheckPlanOutput() to
the ON CONFLICT UPDATE tlist. That wouldn't have caught this
specific error, since that function is chartered to ignore resjunk
columns; but it sure seems like a bad omission now that we've seen
this bug.
In HEAD, the right way to fix this is to make the processing of
ON CONFLICT UPDATE tlists work the same as regular UPDATE tlists
now do, that is don't add "SET x = x" entries, and use
ExecBuildUpdateProjection to evaluate the tlist and combine it with
old values of the not-set columns. This adds a little complication
to ExecBuildUpdateProjection, but allows removal of a comparable
amount of now-dead code from the planner.
In the back branches, the most expedient solution seems to be to
(a) use an output slot for the ON CONFLICT UPDATE projection that
actually matches the target table, and then (b) invent a variant of
ExecBuildProjectionInfo that can be told to not store values resulting
from resjunk columns, so it doesn't try to store into nonexistent
columns of the output slot. (We can't simply ignore the resjunk columns
altogether; they have to be evaluated for MULTIEXPR_SUBLINK to work.)
This works back to v10. In 9.6, projections work much differently and
we can't cheaply give them such an option. The 9.6 version of this
patch works by inserting a JunkFilter when it's necessary to get rid
of resjunk columns.
In addition, v11 and up have the reverse problem when trying to
perform ON CONFLICT UPDATE on a partitioned table. Through a
further oversight, adjust_partition_tlist() discarded resjunk columns
when re-ordering the ON CONFLICT UPDATE tlist to match a partition.
This accidentally prevented the storing-bogus-tuples problem, but
at the cost that MULTIEXPR_SUBLINK cases didn't work, typically
crashing if more than one row has to be updated. Fix by preserving
resjunk columns in that routine. (I failed to resist the temptation
to add more assertions there too, and to do some minor code
beautification.)
Per report from Andres Freund. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Security: CVE-2021-32028
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While we were (mostly) careful about ensuring that the dimensions of
arrays aren't large enough to cause integer overflow, the lower bound
values were generally not checked. This allows situations where
lower_bound + dimension overflows an integer. It seems that that's
harmless so far as array reading is concerned, except that array
elements with subscripts notionally exceeding INT_MAX are inaccessible.
However, it confuses various array-assignment logic, resulting in a
potential for memory stomps.
Fix by adding checks that array lower bounds aren't large enough to
cause lower_bound + dimension to overflow. (Note: this results in
disallowing cases where the last subscript position would be exactly
INT_MAX. In principle we could probably allow that, but there's a lot
of code that computes lower_bound + dimension and would need adjustment.
It seems doubtful that it's worth the trouble/risk to allow it.)
Somewhat independently of that, array_set_element() was careless
about possible overflow when checking the subscript of a fixed-length
array, creating a different route to memory stomps. Fix that too.
Security: CVE-2021-32027
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In 9eacee2e6, I included some code to verify the cache's memory tracking
is correct by counting up the number of entries and the memory they use
each time we evict something from the cache. Those values are then
compared to the expected values using Assert. The problem is that this
requires looping over the entire cache hash table each time we evict an
entry from the cache. That can be pretty expensive, as noted by Pavel
Stehule.
Here we move this memory accounting checking code so that we only verify
it on cassert builds once when shutting down the Result Cache node.
Aside from the performance increase, this has two distinct advantages:
1) We do the memory checks at the last possible moment before destroying
the cache. This means we'll now catch accounting problems that might
sneak in after a cache eviction.
2) We now do the memory Assert checks when there were no cache evictions.
This increases the coverage.
One small disadvantage is that we'll now miss any memory tracking issues
that somehow managed to resolve themselves by the end of execution.
However, it seems to me that such a memory tracking problem would be quite
unlikely, and likely somewhat less harmful if one were to exist.
In passing, adjust the loop over the hash table to use the standard
simplehash.h method of iteration.
Reported-by: Pavel Stehule
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRAzgoSkdEiqrKbT=7yG9FA5fjUAP3jmJywuDqYq6Ki5ug@mail.gmail.com
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1375422 has refactored this area of the executor code, and some comments
went out-of-sync.
Author: Yukun Wang
Reviewed-by: Amul Sul
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB60033394FCAEF79B98F078F5B4459@OS0PR01MB6003.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
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This is cleanup for commit 27e1f1456:
* ExecAppendAsyncEventWait(), which was modified a bit further by commit
a8af856d3, duplicated the same nevents calculation. Simplify the code
a little bit to avoid the duplication. Update comments there.
* Add an assertion to ExecAppendAsyncRequest().
* Update a comment about merging the async_capable options from input
relations in merge_fdw_options(), per complaint from Kyotaro Horiguchi.
* Add a comment for fetch_more_data_begin().
Author: Etsuro Fujita
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK1637W30Wx3MnrReewhafn6F_0J76mrJGoFXFnpPq4QfvA%40mail.gmail.com
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Adopt a more consistent policy about what slot-type-specific
getsysattr functions should do when system attributes are not
available. To wit, they should all throw the same user-oriented
error, rather than variously crashing or emitting developer-oriented
messages.
This closes a identifiable problem in commits a71cfc56b and
3fb93103a (in v13 and v12), so back-patch into those branches,
along with a test case to try to ensure we don't break it again.
It is not known that any of the former crash cases are reachable
in HEAD, but this seems like a good safety improvement in any case.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/141051591267657@mail.yandex.ru
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During queries coming from ri_triggers.c, we need to omit partitions
that are marked pending detach -- otherwise, the RI query is tricked
into allowing a row into the referencing table whose corresponding row
is in the detached partition. Which is bogus: once the detach operation
completes, the row becomes an orphan.
However, the code was not doing that in repeatable-read transactions,
because relcache kept a copy of the partition descriptor that included
the partition, and used it in the RI query. This commit changes the
partdesc cache code to only keep descriptors that aren't dependent on
a snapshot (namely: those where no detached partition exist, and those
where detached partitions are included). When a partdesc-without-
detached-partitions is requested, we create one afresh each time; also,
those partdescs are stored in PortalContext instead of
CacheMemoryContext.
find_inheritance_children gets a new output *detached_exist boolean,
which indicates whether any partition marked pending-detach is found.
Its "include_detached" input flag is changed to "omit_detached", because
that name captures desired the semantics more naturally.
CreatePartitionDirectory() and RelationGetPartitionDesc() arguments are
identically renamed.
This was noticed because a buildfarm member that runs with relcache
clobbering, which would not keep the improperly cached partdesc, broke
one test, which led us to realize that the expected output of that test
was bogus. This commit also corrects that expected output.
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3269784.1617215412@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Previously, it was pg_stat_activity.queryid to match the
pg_stat_statements queryid column. This is an adjustment to patch
4f0b0966c8. This also adjusts some of the internal function calls to
match. Catversion bumped.
Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408032704.GA7498@alvherre.pgsql
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Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210416070310.GG3315@telsasoft.com
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This reverts commit b3ee4c503872f3d0a5d6a7cbde48815f555af15b.
We don't need it in the wake of the preceding commit, which
added an upstream check that the querystring isn't null.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2197698.1617984583@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Commit e717a9a18 changed the longstanding rule that prosrc is NOT NULL
because when a SQL-language function is written in SQL-standard style,
we don't currently have anything useful to put there. This seems a poor
decision though, as it could easily have negative impacts on external
PLs (opening them to crashes they didn't use to have, for instance).
SQL-function-related code can just as easily test "is prosqlbody not
null" as "is prosrc null", so there's no real gain there either.
Hence, revert the NOT NULL marking removal and adjust related logic.
For now, we just put an empty string into prosrc for SQL-standard
functions. Maybe we'll have a better idea later, although the
history of things like pg_attrdef.adsrc suggests that it's not
easy to maintain a string equivalent of a node tree.
This also adds an assertion that queryDesc->sourceText != NULL
to standard_ExecutorStart. We'd been silently relying on that
for awhile, so let's make it less silent.
Also fix some overlooked documentation and test cases.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2197698.1617984583@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Previously, get_cached_rowtype() cached a pointer to a reference-counted
tuple descriptor from the typcache, relying on the ExprContextCallback
mechanism to release the tupdesc refcount when the expression tree
using the tupdesc was destroyed. This worked fine when it was designed,
but the introduction of within-DO-block COMMITs broke it. The refcount
is logged in a transaction-lifespan resource owner, but plpgsql won't
destroy simple expressions made within the DO block (before its first
commit) until the DO block is exited. That results in a warning about
a leaked tupdesc refcount when the COMMIT destroys the original resource
owner, and then an error about the active resource owner not holding a
matching refcount when the expression is destroyed.
To fix, get rid of the need to have a shutdown callback at all, by
instead caching a pointer to the relevant typcache entry. Those
survive for the life of the backend, so we needn't worry about the
pointer becoming stale. (For registered RECORD types, we can still
cache a pointer to the tupdesc, knowing that it won't change for the
life of the backend.) This mechanism has been in use in plpgsql
and expandedrecord.c since commit 4b93f5799, and seems to work well.
This change requires modifying the ExprEvalStep structs used by the
relevant expression step types, which is slightly worrisome for
back-patching. However, there seems no good reason for extensions
to be familiar with the details of these particular sub-structs.
Per report from Rohit Bhogate. Back-patch to v11 where within-DO-block
COMMITs became a thing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAV6ZkQRCVBh8qAY+SZiHnz+U+FqAGBBDaDTjF2yiKa2nJSLKg@mail.gmail.com
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Ignore parallel workers in pg_stat_statements
Oversight in 4f0b0966c8 which exposed queryid in parallel workers.
Counters are aggregated by the main backend process so parallel workers
would report duplicated activity, and could also report activity for the
wrong entry as they are only aware of the top level queryid.
Fix thinko in pg_stat_get_activity when retrieving the queryid.
Remove unnecessary call to pgstat_report_queryid().
Reported-by: Amit Kapila, Andres Freund, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408051735.lfbdzun5zdlax5gd@alap3.anarazel.de p634GTSOqnDW86Owrn6qDAVosC5dJjXjp7BMfc5Gz1Q@mail.gmail.com
Author: Julien Rouhaud
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ScalarArrayOpExprs with "useOr=true" and a set of Consts on the righthand
side have traditionally been evaluated by using a linear search over the
array. When these arrays contain large numbers of elements then this
linear search could become a significant part of execution time.
Here we add a new method of evaluating ScalarArrayOpExpr expressions to
allow them to be evaluated by first building a hash table containing each
element, then on subsequent evaluations, we just probe that hash table to
determine if there is a match.
The planner is in charge of determining when this optimization is possible
and it enables it by setting hashfuncid in the ScalarArrayOpExpr. The
executor will only perform the hash table evaluation when the hashfuncid
is set.
This means that not all cases are optimized. For example CHECK constraints
containing an IN clause won't go through the planner, so won't get the
hashfuncid set. We could maybe do something about that at some later
date. The reason we're not doing it now is from fear that we may slow
down cases where the expression is evaluated only once. Those cases can
be common, for example, a single row INSERT to a table with a CHECK
constraint containing an IN clause.
In the planner, we enable this when there are suitable hash functions for
the ScalarArrayOpExpr's operator and only when there is at least
MIN_ARRAY_SIZE_FOR_HASHED_SAOP elements in the array. The threshold is
currently set to 9.
Author: James Coleman, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8x62+=wn0zvNKCj55tPpg-JBHzhZFFc6ANovdqFw7-dA@mail.gmail.com
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It's far from clear that this is the right approach - but a good
portion of the buildfarm has been red for a few hours, on the last day
of the CF. And this fixes at least the obvious crash. So let's go with
that for now.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210407225806.majgznh4lk34hjvu%40alap3.anarazel.de
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This adds support for writing CREATE FUNCTION and CREATE PROCEDURE
statements for language SQL with a function body that conforms to the
SQL standard and is portable to other implementations.
Instead of the PostgreSQL-specific AS $$ string literal $$ syntax,
this allows writing out the SQL statements making up the body
unquoted, either as a single statement:
CREATE FUNCTION add(a integer, b integer) RETURNS integer
LANGUAGE SQL
RETURN a + b;
or as a block
CREATE PROCEDURE insert_data(a integer, b integer)
LANGUAGE SQL
BEGIN ATOMIC
INSERT INTO tbl VALUES (a);
INSERT INTO tbl VALUES (b);
END;
The function body is parsed at function definition time and stored as
expression nodes in a new pg_proc column prosqlbody. So at run time,
no further parsing is required.
However, this form does not support polymorphic arguments, because
there is no more parse analysis done at call time.
Dependencies between the function and the objects it uses are fully
tracked.
A new RETURN statement is introduced. This can only be used inside
function bodies. Internally, it is treated much like a SELECT
statement.
psql needs some new intelligence to keep track of function body
boundaries so that it doesn't send off statements when it sees
semicolons that are inside a function body.
Tested-by: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1c11f1eb-f00c-43b7-799d-2d44132c02d7@2ndquadrant.com
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Use the in-core query id computation for pg_stat_activity,
log_line_prefix, and EXPLAIN VERBOSE.
Similar to other fields in pg_stat_activity, only the queryid from the
top level statements are exposed, and if the backends status isn't
active then the queryid from the last executed statements is displayed.
Add a %Q placeholder to include the queryid in log_line_prefix, which
will also only expose top level statements.
For EXPLAIN VERBOSE, if a query identifier has been computed, either by
enabling compute_query_id or using a third-party module, display it.
Bump catalog version.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210407125726.tkvjdbw76hxnpwfi@nol
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Nitin Jadhav, Zhihong Yu
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Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEcawatEaUh1uTbZMEZTJeLzbroRTz9_X9Z5CFjTWJkhw@mail.gmail.com
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Delay creation of the projections for INSERT and UPDATE tuples
until they're needed. This saves a pretty fair amount of work
when only some of the partitions are actually touched.
The logic associated with identifying junk columns in UPDATE/DELETE
is moved to another loop, allowing removal of one loop over the
target relations; but it didn't actually change at all.
Extracted from a larger patch, which seemed to me to be too messy
to push in one commit.
Amit Langote, reviewed at different times by Heikki Linnakangas and
myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqG7ZruBmmih3wPsBZ4s0H2EhywrnXEduckY5Hr3fWzPWA@mail.gmail.com
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Arrange to do some things on-demand, rather than immediately during
executor startup, because there's a fair chance of never having to do
them at all:
* Don't open result relations' indexes until needed.
* Don't initialize partition tuple routing, nor the child-to-root
tuple conversion map, until needed.
This wins in UPDATEs on partitioned tables when only some of the
partitions will actually receive updates; with larger partition
counts the savings is quite noticeable. Also, we can remove some
sketchy heuristics in ExecInitModifyTable about whether to set up
tuple routing.
Also, remove execPartition.c's private hash table tracking which
partitions were already opened by the ModifyTable node. Instead
use the hash added to ModifyTable itself by commit 86dc90056.
To allow lazy computation of the conversion maps, we now set
ri_RootResultRelInfo in all child ResultRelInfos. We formerly set it
only in some, not terribly well-defined, cases. This has user-visible
side effects in that now more error messages refer to the root
relation instead of some partition (and provide error data in the
root's column order, too). It looks to me like this is a strict
improvement in consistency, so I don't have a problem with the
output changes visible in this commit.
Extracted from a larger patch, which seemed to me to be too messy
to push in one commit.
Amit Langote, reviewed at different times by Heikki Linnakangas and
myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqG7ZruBmmih3wPsBZ4s0H2EhywrnXEduckY5Hr3fWzPWA@mail.gmail.com
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Per cpluspluscheck.
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Andrew Gierth reported that it's possible to crash the backend if no
pg_attrdef record is found to match an attribute that has atthasdef set.
AttrDefaultFetch warns about this situation, but then leaves behind
a relation tupdesc that has null "adbin" pointer(s), which most places
don't guard against.
We considered promoting the warning to an error, but throwing errors
during relcache load is pretty drastic: it effectively locks one out
of using the relation at all. What seems better is to leave the
load-time behavior as a warning, but then throw an error in any code
path that wants to use a default and can't find it. This confines
the error to a subset of INSERT/UPDATE operations on the table, and
in particular will at least allow a pg_dump to succeed.
Also, we should fix AttrDefaultFetch to not leave any null pointers
in the tupdesc, because that just creates an untested bug hazard.
While at it, apply the same philosophy of "warn at load, throw error
only upon use of the known-missing info" to CHECK constraints.
CheckConstraintFetch is very nearly the same logic as AttrDefaultFetch,
but for reasons lost in the mists of time, it was throwing ERROR for
the same cases that AttrDefaultFetch treats as WARNING. Make the two
functions more nearly alike.
In passing, get rid of potentially-O(N^2) loops in equalTupleDesc
by making AttrDefaultFetch sort the entries after fetching them,
so that equalTupleDesc can assume that entries in two equal tupdescs
must be in matching order. (CheckConstraintFetch already was sorting
CHECK constraints, but equalTupleDesc hadn't been told about it.)
There's some argument for back-patching this, but with such a small
number of field reports, I'm content to fix it in HEAD.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87pmzaq4gx.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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Adjust the number of events given to WaitEventSetWait() so that it
doesn't exceed the maximum number of events in the WaitEventSet given
to that function (set->nevents_space) in hopes of making the buildfarm
green.
Per valgrind failure report from Tom Lane and the buildfarm.
Author: Etsuro Fujita
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3411577.1617289776%40sss.pgh.pa.us
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Testing if an unsigned variable is >= 0 is pretty pointless.
There's likely enough code in remove_cache_entry() to verify the cache
memory accounting is correct in assert enabled builds. These Asserts
were not adding much extra cover, even if they had been checking >= 0 on a
signed variable.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210402204734.6mo3nfacnljlicgn@alap3.anarazel.de
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Here we add a new executor node type named "Result Cache". The planner
can include this node type in the plan to have the executor cache the
results from the inner side of parameterized nested loop joins. This
allows caching of tuples for sets of parameters so that in the event that
the node sees the same parameter values again, it can just return the
cached tuples instead of rescanning the inner side of the join all over
again. Internally, result cache uses a hash table in order to quickly
find tuples that have been previously cached.
For certain data sets, this can significantly improve the performance of
joins. The best cases for using this new node type are for join problems
where a large portion of the tuples from the inner side of the join have
no join partner on the outer side of the join. In such cases, hash join
would have to hash values that are never looked up, thus bloating the hash
table and possibly causing it to multi-batch. Merge joins would have to
skip over all of the unmatched rows. If we use a nested loop join with a
result cache, then we only cache tuples that have at least one join
partner on the outer side of the join. The benefits of using a
parameterized nested loop with a result cache increase when there are
fewer distinct values being looked up and the number of lookups of each
value is large. Also, hash probes to lookup the cache can be much faster
than the hash probe in a hash join as it's common that the result cache's
hash table is much smaller than the hash join's due to result cache only
caching useful tuples rather than all tuples from the inner side of the
join. This variation in hash probe performance is more significant when
the hash join's hash table no longer fits into the CPU's L3 cache, but the
result cache's hash table does. The apparent "random" access of hash
buckets with each hash probe can cause a poor L3 cache hit ratio for large
hash tables. Smaller hash tables generally perform better.
The hash table used for the cache limits itself to not exceeding work_mem
* hash_mem_multiplier in size. We maintain a dlist of keys for this cache
and when we're adding new tuples and realize we've exceeded the memory
budget, we evict cache entries starting with the least recently used ones
until we have enough memory to add the new tuples to the cache.
For parameterized nested loop joins, we now consider using one of these
result cache nodes in between the nested loop node and its inner node. We
determine when this might be useful based on cost, which is primarily
driven off of what the expected cache hit ratio will be. Estimating the
cache hit ratio relies on having good distinct estimates on the nested
loop's parameters.
For now, the planner will only consider using a result cache for
parameterized nested loop joins. This works for both normal joins and
also for LATERAL type joins to subqueries. It is possible to use this new
node for other uses in the future. For example, to cache results from
correlated subqueries. However, that's not done here due to some
difficulties obtaining a distinct estimation on the outer plan to
calculate the estimated cache hit ratio. Currently we plan the inner plan
before planning the outer plan so there is no good way to know if a result
cache would be useful or not since we can't estimate the number of times
the subplan will be called until the outer plan is generated.
The functionality being added here is newly introducing a dependency on
the return value of estimate_num_groups() during the join search.
Previously, during the join search, we only ever needed to perform
selectivity estimations. With this commit, we need to use
estimate_num_groups() in order to estimate what the hit ratio on the
result cache will be. In simple terms, if we expect 10 distinct values
and we expect 1000 outer rows, then we'll estimate the hit ratio to be
99%. Since cache hits are very cheap compared to scanning the underlying
nodes on the inner side of the nested loop join, then this will
significantly reduce the planner's cost for the join. However, it's
fairly easy to see here that things will go bad when estimate_num_groups()
incorrectly returns a value that's significantly lower than the actual
number of distinct values. If this happens then that may cause us to make
use of a nested loop join with a result cache instead of some other join
type, such as a merge or hash join. Our distinct estimations have been
known to be a source of trouble in the past, so the extra reliance on them
here could cause the planner to choose slower plans than it did previous
to having this feature. Distinct estimations are also fairly hard to
estimate accurately when several tables have been joined already or when a
WHERE clause filters out a set of values that are correlated to the
expressions we're estimating the number of distinct value for.
For now, the costing we perform during query planning for result caches
does put quite a bit of faith in the distinct estimations being accurate.
When these are accurate then we should generally see faster execution
times for plans containing a result cache. However, in the real world, we
may find that we need to either change the costings to put less trust in
the distinct estimations being accurate or perhaps even disable this
feature by default. There's always an element of risk when we teach the
query planner to do new tricks that it decides to use that new trick at
the wrong time and causes a regression. Users may opt to get the old
behavior by turning the feature off using the enable_resultcache GUC.
Currently, this is enabled by default. It remains to be seen if we'll
maintain that setting for the release.
Additionally, the name "Result Cache" is the best name I could think of
for this new node at the time I started writing the patch. Nobody seems
to strongly dislike the name. A few people did suggest other names but no
other name seemed to dominate in the brief discussion that there was about
names. Let's allow the beta period to see if the current name pleases
enough people. If there's some consensus on a better name, then we can
change it before the release. Please see the 2nd discussion link below
for the discussion on the "Result Cache" name.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu, Hou Zhijie
Tested-By: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrPcQyQdWERGYWx8J%2B2DLUNgXu%2BfOSbQ1UscxrunyXyrQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq=yQXr5kqhRviT2RhNKwToaWr9JAN5t+5_PzhuRJ3wvg@mail.gmail.com
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This removes "Add Result Cache executor node". It seems that something
weird is going on with the tracking of cache hits and misses as
highlighted by many buildfarm animals. It's not yet clear what the
problem is as other parts of the plan indicate that the cache did work
correctly, it's just the hits and misses that were being reported as 0.
This is especially a bad time to have the buildfarm so broken, so
reverting before too many more animals go red.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq_hydhfovm4=izgWs+C5HqEeRScjMbOgbpC-jRAeK3Yw@mail.gmail.com
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