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* Switch the planner over to treating qualifications of a JOIN_SEMI join asTom Lane2008-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | though it is an inner rather than outer join type. This essentially means that we don't bother to separate "pushed down" qual conditions from actual join quals at a semijoin plan node; which is okay because the restrictions of SQL syntax make it impossible to have a pushed-down qual that references the inner side of a semijoin. This allows noticeably better optimization of IN/EXISTS cases than we had before, since the equivalence-class machinery can now use those quals. Also fix a couple of other mistakes that had essentially disabled the ability to unique-ify the inner relation and then join it to just a subset of the left-hand relations. An example case using the regression database is select * from tenk1 a, tenk1 b where (a.unique1,b.unique2) in (select unique1,unique2 from tenk1 c); which is planned reasonably well by 8.3 and earlier but had been forcing a cartesian join of a/b in CVS HEAD.
* Be a little smarter about qual handling for semi-joins: a qual that mentionsTom Lane2008-10-25
| | | | | only the outer side can be pushed down rather than having to be evaluated at the join.
* Add a concept of "placeholder" variables to the planner. These are variablesTom Lane2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | that represent some expression that we desire to compute below the top level of the plan, and then let that value "bubble up" as though it were a plain Var (ie, a column value). The immediate application is to allow sub-selects to be flattened even when they are below an outer join and have non-nullable output expressions. Formerly we couldn't flatten because such an expression wouldn't properly go to NULL when evaluated above the outer join. Now, we wrap it in a PlaceHolderVar and arrange for the actual evaluation to occur below the outer join. When the resulting Var bubbles up through the join, it will be set to NULL if necessary, yielding the correct results. This fixes a planner limitation that's existed since 7.1. In future we might want to use this mechanism to re-introduce some form of Hellerstein's "expensive functions" optimization, ie place the evaluation of an expensive function at the most suitable point in the plan tree.
* Improve sublink pullup code to handle ANY/EXISTS sublinks that are at topTom Lane2008-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | level of a JOIN/ON clause, not only at top level of WHERE. (However, we can't do this in an outer join's ON clause, unless the ANY/EXISTS refers only to the nullable side of the outer join, so that it can effectively be pushed down into the nullable side.) Per request from Kevin Grittner. In passing, fix a bug in the initial implementation of EXISTS pullup: it would Assert if the EXIST's WHERE clause used a join alias variable. Since we haven't yet flattened join aliases when this transformation happens, it's necessary to include join relids in the computed set of RHS relids.
* Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replaceTom Lane2008-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.) Teach the planner to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti joins respectively. Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL filters are recognized as being anti joins. Unify the InClauseInfo and OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo". With that change, it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt, which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation. That needs to be taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a separate patch. So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and especially anti joins are quite bogus.
* Consider a clause to be outerjoin_delayed if it references the nullable sideTom Lane2008-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of any lower outer join, even if it also references the non-nullable side and so could not get pushed below the outer join anyway. We need this in case the clause is an OR clause: if it doesn't get marked outerjoin_delayed, create_or_index_quals() could pull an indexable restriction for the nullable side out of it, leading to wrong results as demonstrated by today's bug report from toruvinn. (See added regression test case for an example.) In principle this has been wrong for quite a while. In practice I don't think any branch before 8.3 can really show the failure, because create_or_index_quals() will only pull out indexable conditions, and before 8.3 those were always strict. So though we might have improperly generated null-extended rows in the outer join, they'd get discarded from the result anyway. The gating factor that makes the failure visible is that 8.3 considers "col IS NULL" to be indexable. Hence I'm not going to risk back-patching further than 8.3.
* Fix an oversight I made in a cleanup patch over a year ago:Tom Lane2008-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | eval_const_expressions needs to be passed the PlannerInfo ("root") structure, because in some cases we want it to substitute values for Param nodes. (So "constant" is not so constant as all that ...) This mistake partially disabled optimization of unnamed extended-Query statements in 8.3: in particular the LIKE-to-indexscan optimization would never be applied if the LIKE pattern was passed as a parameter, and constraint exclusion depending on a parameter value didn't work either.
* Fix some planner issues found while investigating Kevin Grittner's reportTom Lane2008-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of poorer planning in 8.3 than 8.2: 1. After pushing a constant across an outer join --- ie, given "a LEFT JOIN b ON (a.x = b.y) WHERE a.x = 42", we can deduce that b.y is sort of equal to 42, in the sense that we needn't fetch any b rows where it isn't 42 --- loop to see if any additional deductions can be made. Previous releases did that by recursing, but I had mistakenly thought that this was no longer necessary given the EquivalenceClass machinery. 2. Allow pushing constants across outer join conditions even if the condition is outerjoin_delayed due to a lower outer join. This is safe as long as the condition is strict and we re-test it at the upper join. 3. Keep the outer-join clause even if we successfully push a constant across it. This is *necessary* in the outerjoin_delayed case, but even in the simple case, it seems better to do this to ensure that the join search order heuristics will consider the join as reasonable to make. Mark such a clause as having selectivity 1.0, though, since it's not going to eliminate very many rows after application of the constant condition. 4. Tweak have_relevant_eclass_joinclause to report that two relations are joinable when they have vars that are equated to the same constant. We won't actually generate any joinclause from such an EquivalenceClass, but again it seems that in such a case it's a good idea to consider the join as worth costing out. 5. Fix a bug in select_mergejoin_clauses that was exposed by these changes: we have to reject candidate mergejoin clauses if either side was equated to a constant, because we can't construct a canonical pathkey list for such a clause. This is an implementation restriction that might be worth fixing someday, but it doesn't seem critical to get it done for 8.3.
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* Fix an error in make_outerjoininfo introduced by my patch of 30-Aug: the codeTom Lane2007-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | neglected to test whether an outer join's join-condition actually refers to the lower outer join it is looking at. (The comment correctly described what was supposed to happen, but the code didn't do it...) This often resulted in adding an unnecessary constraint on the join order of the two outer joins, which was bad enough. However, it also seems to expose a performance problem in an older patch (from 15-Feb): once we've decided that there is a join ordering constraint, we will start trying clauseless joins between every combination of rels within the constraint, which pointlessly eats up lots of time and space if there are numerous rels below the outer join. That probably needs to be revisited :-(. Per gripe from Jakub Ouhrabka.
* Keep the planner from failing on "WHERE false AND something IN (SELECT ...)".Tom Lane2007-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | eval_const_expressions simplifies this to just "WHERE false", but we have already done pull_up_IN_clauses so the IN join will be done, or at least planned, anyway. The trouble case comes when the sub-SELECT is itself a join and we decide to implement the IN by unique-ifying the sub-SELECT outputs: with no remaining reference to the output Vars in WHERE, we won't have propagated the Vars up to the upper join point, leading to "variable not found in subplan target lists" error. Fix by adding an extra scan of in_info_list and forcing all Vars mentioned therein to be propagated up to the IN join point. Per bug report from Miroslav Sulc.
* Rewrite make_outerjoininfo's construction of min_lefthand and min_righthandTom Lane2007-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sets for outer joins, in the light of bug #3588 and additional thought and experimentation. The original methodology was fatally flawed for nests of more than two outer joins: it got the relationships between adjacent joins right, but didn't always come to the right conclusions about whether a join could be interchanged with one two or more levels below it. This was largely caused by a mistaken idea that we should use the min_lefthand + min_righthand sets of a sub-join as the minimum left or right input set of an upper join when we conclude that the sub-join can't commute with the upper one. If there's a still-lower join that the sub-join *can* commute with, this method led us to think that that one could commute with the topmost join; which it can't. Another problem (not directly connected to bug #3588) was that make_outerjoininfo's processing-order-dependent method for enforcing outer join identity #3 didn't work right: if we decided that join A could safely commute with lower join B, we dropped all information about sub-joins under B that join A could perhaps not safely commute with, because we removed B's entire min_righthand from A's. To fix, make an explicit computation of all inner join combinations that occur below an outer join, and add to that the full syntactic relsets of any lower outer joins that we determine it can't commute with. This method gives much more direct enforcement of the outer join rearrangement identities, and it turns out not to cost a lot of additional bookkeeping. Thanks to Richard Harris for the bug report and test case.
* Repair planner bug introduced in 8.2 by ability to rearrange outer joins:Tom Lane2007-05-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | in cases where a sub-SELECT inserts a WHERE clause between two outer joins, that clause may prevent us from re-ordering the two outer joins. The code was considering only the joins' own ON-conditions in determining reordering safety, which is not good enough. Add a "delay_upper_joins" flag to OuterJoinInfo to flag that we have detected such a clause and higher-level outer joins shouldn't be permitted to commute with this one. (This might seem overly coarse, but given the current rules for OJ reordering, it's sufficient AFAICT.) The failure case is actually pretty narrow: it needs a WHERE clause within the RHS of a left join that checks the RHS of a lower left join, but is not strict for that RHS (else we'd have simplified the lower join to a plain join). Even then no failure will be manifest unless the planner chooses to rearrange the join order. Per bug report from Adam Terrey.
* Adjust the definition of is_pushed_down so that it's always true for INNERTom Lane2007-02-16
| | | | | | | | | JOIN quals, just like WHERE quals, even if they reference every one of the join's relations. Now that we can reorder outer and inner joins, it's possible for such a qual to end up being assigned to an outer join plan node, and we mustn't have it treated as a join qual rather than a filter qual for the node. (If it were, the join could produce null-extended rows that it shouldn't.) Per bug report from Pelle Johansson.
* Repair bug in 8.2's new logic for planning outer joins: we have to allow joinsTom Lane2007-02-13
| | | | | | | | that overlap an outer join's min_righthand but aren't fully contained in it, to support joining within the RHS after having performed an outer join that can commute with this one. Aside from the direct fix in make_join_rel(), fix has_join_restriction() and GEQO's desirable_join() to consider this possibility. Per report from Ian Harding.
* Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.Bruce Momjian2007-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways: may - permission, "You may borrow my rake." can - ability, "I can lift that log." might - possibility, "It might rain today." Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
* Refactor planner's pathkeys data structure to create a separate, explicitTom Lane2007-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | representation of equivalence classes of variables. This is an extensive rewrite, but it brings a number of benefits: * planner no longer fails in the presence of "incomplete" operator families that don't offer operators for every possible combination of datatypes. * avoid generating and then discarding redundant equality clauses. * remove bogus assumption that derived equalities always use operators named "=". * mergejoins can work with a variety of sort orders (e.g., descending) now, instead of tying each mergejoinable operator to exactly one sort order. * better recognition of redundant sort columns. * can make use of equalities appearing underneath an outer join.
* Tweak joinlist creation to avoid generating useless one-element subproblemsTom Lane2007-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | when collapsing of JOIN trees is stopped by join_collapse_limit. For instance a list of 11 LEFT JOINs with limit 8 now produces something like ((1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) 9 10 11 12) instead of (((1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) (9)) 10 11 12) The latter structure is really only required for a FULL JOIN. Noted while studying an example from Shane Ambler.
* Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* Restructure operator classes to allow improved handling of cross-data-typeTom Lane2006-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cases. Operator classes now exist within "operator families". While most families are equivalent to a single class, related classes can be grouped into one family to represent the fact that they are semantically compatible. Cross-type operators are now naturally adjunct parts of a family, without having to wedge them into a particular opclass as we had done originally. This commit restructures the catalogs and cleans up enough of the fallout so that everything still works at least as well as before, but most of the work needed to actually improve the planner's behavior will come later. Also, there are not yet CREATE/DROP/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands; the only way to create a new family right now is to allow CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to make one by default. I owe some more documentation work, too. But that can all be done in smaller pieces once this infrastructure is in place.
* Repair incorrect placement of WHERE clauses when there are multiple,Tom Lane2006-12-07
| | | | | | | rearrangeable outer joins and the WHERE clause is non-strict and mentions only nullable-side relations. New bug in 8.2, caused by new logic to allow rearranging outer joins. Per bug #2807 from Ross Cohen; thanks to Jeff Davis for producing a usable test case.
* pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian2006-10-04
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* Improve usage of effective_cache_size parameter by assuming that all theTom Lane2006-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | tables in the query compete for cache space, not just the one we are currently costing an indexscan for. This seems more realistic, and it definitely will help in examples recently exhibited by Stefan Kaltenbrunner. To get the total size of all the tables involved, we must tweak the handling of 'append relations' a bit --- formerly we looked up information about the child tables on-the-fly during set_append_rel_pathlist, but it needs to be done before we start doing any cost estimation, so push it into the add_base_rels_to_query scan.
* Put back plan-time check for trying to apply SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARETom Lane2006-09-08
| | | | | | to a relation on the nullable side of an outer join. I had removed this during the outer join planning rewrite a few months ago ... I think I intended to put it somewhere else, but forgot ...
* Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian2006-07-14
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* Alphabetically order reference to include files, "G" - "M".Bruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* Revise the planner's handling of "pseudoconstant" WHERE clauses, that isTom Lane2006-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | clauses containing no variables and no volatile functions. Such a clause can be used as a one-time qual in a gating Result plan node, to suppress plan execution entirely when it is false. Even when the clause is true, putting it in a gating node wins by avoiding repeated evaluation of the clause. In previous PG releases, query_planner() would do this for pseudoconstant clauses appearing at the top level of the jointree, but there was no ability to generate a gating Result deeper in the plan tree. To fix it, get rid of the special case in query_planner(), and instead process pseudoconstant clauses through the normal RestrictInfo qual distribution mechanism. When a pseudoconstant clause is found attached to a path node in create_plan(), pull it out and generate a gating Result at that point. This requires special-casing pseudoconstants in selectivity estimation and cost_qual_eval, but on the whole it's pretty clean. It probably even makes the planner a bit faster than before for the normal case of no pseudoconstants, since removing pull_constant_clauses saves one useless traversal of the qual tree. Per gripe from Phil Frost.
* Improve parser so that we can show an error cursor position for errorsTom Lane2006-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | during parse analysis, not only errors detected in the flex/bison stages. This is per my earlier proposal. This commit includes all the basic infrastructure, but locations are only tracked and reported for errors involving column references, function calls, and operators. More could be done later but this seems like a good set to start with. I've also moved the ReportSyntaxErrorPosition logic out of psql and into libpq, which should make it available to more people --- even within psql this is an improvement because warnings weren't handled by ReportSyntaxErrorPosition.
* Remove the stub support we had for UNION JOIN; per discussion, this isTom Lane2006-03-07
| | | | | | not likely ever to be implemented seeing it's been removed from SQL2003. This allows getting rid of the 'filter' version of yylex() that we had in parser.c, which should save at least a few microseconds in parsing.
* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Restructure planner's handling of inheritance. Rather than processingTom Lane2006-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | inheritance trees on-the-fly, which pretty well constrained us to considering only one way of planning inheritance, expand inheritance sets during the planner prep phase, and build a side data structure that can be consulted later to find which RTEs are members of which inheritance sets. As proof of concept, use the data structure to plan joins against inheritance sets more efficiently: we can now use indexes on the set members in inner-indexscan joins. (The generated plans could be improved further, but it'll take some executor changes.) This data structure will also support handling UNION ALL subqueries in the same way as inheritance sets, but that aspect of it isn't finished yet.
* Teach planner how to rearrange join order for some classes of OUTER JOIN.Tom Lane2005-12-20
| | | | | | Per my recent proposal. I ended up basing the implementation on the existing mechanism for enforcing valid join orders of IN joins --- the rules for valid outer-join orders are somewhat similar.
* Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian2005-11-22
| | | | | | | | | comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
* Restore the former RestrictInfo field valid_everywhere (but invert the flagTom Lane2005-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | sense and rename to "outerjoin_delayed" to more clearly reflect what it means). I had decided that it was redundant in 8.1, but the folly of this is exposed by a bug report from Sebastian Böck. The place where it's needed is to prevent orindxpath.c from cherry-picking arms of an outer-join OR clause to form a relation restriction that isn't actually legal to push down to the relation scan level. There may be some legal cases that this forbids optimizing, but we'd need much closer analysis to determine it.
* Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-10-15
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* Repair planning bug introduced in 7.4: outer-join ON clauses that referencedTom Lane2005-09-28
| | | | | | only the inner-side relation would be considered as potential equijoin clauses, which is wrong because the condition doesn't necessarily hold above the point of the outer join. Per test case from Kevin Grittner (bug#1916).
* Teach planner about some cases where a restriction clause can beTom Lane2005-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | propagated inside an outer join. In particular, given LEFT JOIN ON (A = B) WHERE A = constant, we cannot conclude that B = constant at the top level (B might be null instead), but we can nonetheless put a restriction B = constant into the quals for B's relation, since no inner-side rows not meeting that condition can contribute to the final result. Similarly, given FULL JOIN USING (J) WHERE J = constant, we can't directly conclude that either input J variable = constant, but it's OK to push such quals into each input rel. Per recent gripe from Kim Bisgaard. Along the way, remove 'valid_everywhere' flag from RestrictInfo, as on closer analysis it was not being used for anything, and was defined backwards anyway.
* Simplify the planner's join clause management by storing join clausesTom Lane2005-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | of a relation in a flat 'joininfo' list. The former arrangement grouped the join clauses according to the set of unjoined relids used in each; however, profiling on test cases involving lots of joins proves that that data structure is a net loss. It takes more time to group the join clauses together than is saved by avoiding duplicate tests later. It doesn't help any that there are usually not more than one or two clauses per group ...
* Remove planner's private fields from Query struct, and put them intoTom Lane2005-06-05
| | | | | | | | a new PlannerInfo struct, which is passed around instead of the bare Query in all the planning code. This commit is essentially just a code-beautification exercise, but it does open the door to making larger changes to the planner data structures without having to muck with the widely-known Query struct.
* Implement sharable row-level locks, and use them for foreign key referencesTom Lane2005-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to eliminate unnecessary deadlocks. This commit adds SELECT ... FOR SHARE paralleling SELECT ... FOR UPDATE. The implementation uses a new SLRU data structure (managed much like pg_subtrans) to represent multiple- transaction-ID sets. When more than one transaction is holding a shared lock on a particular row, we create a MultiXactId representing that set of transactions and store its ID in the row's XMAX. This scheme allows an effectively unlimited number of row locks, just as we did before, while not costing any extra overhead except when a shared lock actually has to be shared. Still TODO: use the regular lock manager to control the grant order when multiple backends are waiting for a row lock. Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
* Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon2004-12-31
| | | | | | | | Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
* Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Desultory de-FastList-ification. RelOptInfo.reltargetlist is back toTom Lane2004-06-01
| | | | being a plain List.
* Use the new List API function names throughout the backend, and disable theNeil Conway2004-05-30
| | | | | list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.
* Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway2004-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
* process_implied_equality must copy the substructure of the clauses itTom Lane2004-02-27
| | | | | is generating, to avoid problems when subselects are involved. Per report from Damon Hart.
* Add the ability to extract OR indexscan conditions from OR-of-ANDTom Lane2004-01-05
| | | | | | | join conditions in which each OR subclause includes a constraint on the same relation. This implements the other useful side-effect of conversion to CNF format, without its unpleasant side-effects. As per pghackers discussion of a few weeks ago.
* Merge restrictlist_selectivity into clauselist_selectivity byTom Lane2004-01-04
| | | | | | | | teaching the latter to accept either RestrictInfo nodes or bare clause expressions; and cache the selectivity result in the RestrictInfo node when possible. This extends the caching behavior of approx_selectivity to many more contexts, and should reduce duplicate selectivity calculations.