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* Improve planner's understanding of strictness of type coercions.Tom Lane2019-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PG type coercions are generally strict, ie a NULL input must produce a NULL output (or, in domain cases, possibly an error). The planner's understanding of that was a bit incomplete though, so improve it: * Teach contain_nonstrict_functions() that CoerceViaIO can always be considered strict. Previously it believed that only if the underlying I/O functions were marked strict, which is often but not always true. * Teach clause_is_strict_for() that CoerceViaIO, ArrayCoerceExpr, ConvertRowtypeExpr, CoerceToDomain can all be considered strict. Previously it knew nothing about any of them. The main user-visible impact of this is that IS NOT NULL predicates can be proven to hold from expressions involving casts in more cases than before, allowing partial indexes with such predicates to be used without extra pushups. This reduces the surprise factor for users, who may well be used to ordinary (function-call-based) casts being known to be strict. Per a gripe from Samuel Williams. This doesn't rise to the level of a bug, IMO, so no back-patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27571.1550617881@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix incorrect strictness test for ArrayCoerceExpr expressions.Tom Lane2019-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recursion in contain_nonstrict_functions_walker() was done wrong, causing the strictness check to be bypassed for a parse node that is the immediate input of an ArrayCoerceExpr node. This could allow, for example, incorrect decisions about whether a strict SQL function can be inlined. I didn't add a regression test, because (a) the bug is so narrow and (b) I couldn't think of a test case that wasn't dependent on a large number of other behaviors, to the point where it would likely soon rot to the point of not testing what it was intended to. I broke this in commit c12d570fa, so back-patch to v11. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27571.1550617881@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow extensions to generate lossy index conditions.Tom Lane2019-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For a long time, indxpath.c has had the ability to extract derived (lossy) index conditions from certain operators such as LIKE. For just as long, it's been obvious that we really ought to make that capability available to extensions. This commit finally accomplishes that, by adding another API for planner support functions that lets them create derived index conditions for their functions. As proof of concept, the hardwired "special index operator" code formerly present in indxpath.c is pushed out to planner support functions attached to LIKE and other relevant operators. A weak spot in this design is that an extension needs to know OIDs for the operators, datatypes, and opfamilies involved in the transformation it wants to make. The core-code prototypes use hard-wired OID references but extensions don't have that option for their own operators etc. It's usually possible to look up the required info, but that may be slow and inconvenient. However, improving that situation is a separate task. I want to do some additional refactorization around selfuncs.c, but that also seems like a separate task. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Build out the planner support function infrastructure.Tom Lane2019-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support function requests for estimating the selectivity, cost, and number of result rows (if a SRF) of the target function. The lack of a way to estimate selectivity of a boolean-returning function in WHERE has been a recognized deficiency of the planner since Berkeley days. This commit finally fixes it. In addition, non-constant estimates of cost and number of output rows are now possible. We still fall back to looking at procost and prorows if the support function doesn't service the request, of course. To make concrete use of the possibility of estimating output rowcount for SRFs, this commit adds support functions for array_unnest(anyarray) and the integer variants of generate_series; the lack of plausible rowcount estimates for those, even when it's obvious to a human, has been a repeated subject of complaints. Obviously, much more could now be done in this line, but I'm mostly just trying to get the infrastructure in place. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Create the infrastructure for planner support functions.Tom Lane2019-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename/repurpose pg_proc.protransform as "prosupport". The idea is still that it names an internal function that provides knowledge to the planner about the behavior of the function it's attached to; but redesign the API specification so that it's not limited to doing just one thing, but can support an extensible set of requests. The original purpose of simplifying a function call is handled by the first request type to be invented, SupportRequestSimplify. Adjust all the existing transform functions to handle this API, and rename them fron "xxx_transform" to "xxx_support" to reflect the potential generalization of what they do. (Since we never previously provided any way for extensions to add transform functions, this change doesn't create an API break for them.) Also add DDL and pg_dump support for attaching a support function to a user-defined function. Unfortunately, DDL access has to be restricted to superusers, at least for now; but seeing that support functions will pretty much have to be written in C, that limitation is just theoretical. (This support is untested in this patch, but a follow-on patch will add cases that exercise it.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Refactor the representation of indexable clauses in IndexPaths.Tom Lane2019-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In place of three separate but interrelated lists (indexclauses, indexquals, and indexqualcols), an IndexPath now has one list "indexclauses" of IndexClause nodes. This holds basically the same information as before, but in a more useful format: in particular, there is now a clear connection between an indexclause (an original restriction clause from WHERE or JOIN/ON) and the indexquals (directly usable index conditions) derived from it. We also change the ground rules a bit by mandating that clause commutation, if needed, be done up-front so that what is stored in the indexquals list is always directly usable as an index condition. This gets rid of repeated re-determination of which side of the clause is the indexkey during costing and plan generation, as well as repeated lookups of the commutator operator. To minimize the added up-front cost, the typical case of commuting a plain OpExpr is handled by a new special-purpose function commute_restrictinfo(). For RowCompareExprs, generating the new clause properly commuted to begin with is not really any more complex than before, it's just different --- and we can save doing that work twice, as the pretty-klugy original implementation did. Tracking the connection between original and derived clauses lets us also track explicitly whether the derived clauses are an exact or lossy translation of the original. This provides a cheap solution to getting rid of unnecessary rechecks of boolean index clauses, which previously seemed like it'd be more expensive than it was worth. Another pleasant (IMO) side-effect is that EXPLAIN now always shows index clauses with the indexkey on the left; this seems less confusing. This commit leaves expand_indexqual_conditions() and some related functions in a slightly messy state. I didn't bother to change them any more than minimally necessary to work with the new data structure, because all that code is going to be refactored out of existence in a follow-on patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22182.1549124950@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Renaming for new subscripting mechanismAlvaro Herrera2019-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Over at patch https://commitfest.postgresql.org/21/1062/ Dmitry wants to introduce a more generic subscription mechanism, which allows subscripting not only arrays but also other object types such as JSONB. That functionality is introduced in a largish invasive patch, out of which this internal renaming patch was extracted. Author: Dmitry Dolgov Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcUK4EqPAu7XRRO5CCjMwhz5zvg+rfWuLzVoxp_5sKS6=w@mail.gmail.com
* Refactor planner's header files.Tom Lane2019-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Create a new header optimizer/optimizer.h, which exposes just the planner functions that can be used "at arm's length", without need to access Paths or the other planner-internal data structures defined in nodes/relation.h. This is intended to provide the whole planner API seen by most of the rest of the system; although FDWs still need to use additional stuff, and more thought is also needed about just what selfuncs.c should rely on. The main point of doing this now is to limit the amount of new #include baggage that will be needed by "planner support functions", which I expect to introduce later, and which will be in relevant datatype modules rather than anywhere near the planner. This commit just moves relevant declarations into optimizer.h from other header files (a couple of which go away because everything got moved), and adjusts #include lists to match. There's further cleanup that could be done if we want to decide that some stuff being exposed by optimizer.h doesn't belong in the planner at all, but I'll leave that for another day. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Make some small planner API cleanups.Tom Lane2019-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move a few very simple node-creation and node-type-testing functions from the planner's clauses.c to nodes/makefuncs and nodes/nodeFuncs. There's nothing planner-specific about them, as evidenced by the number of other places that were using them. While at it, rename and_clause() etc to is_andclause() etc, to clarify that they are node-type-testing functions not node-creation functions. And use "static inline" implementations for the shortest ones. Also, modify flatten_join_alias_vars() and some subsidiary functions to take a Query not a PlannerInfo to define the join structure that Vars should be translated according to. They were only using the "parse" field of the PlannerInfo anyway, so this just requires removing one level of indirection. The advantage is that now parse_agg.c can use flatten_join_alias_vars() without the horrid kluge of creating an incomplete PlannerInfo, which will allow that file to be decoupled from relation.h in a subsequent patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us
* In the planner, replace an empty FROM clause with a dummy RTE.Tom Lane2019-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The fact that "SELECT expression" has no base relations has long been a thorn in the side of the planner. It makes it hard to flatten a sub-query that looks like that, or is a trivial VALUES() item, because the planner generally uses relid sets to identify sub-relations, and such a sub-query would have an empty relid set if we flattened it. prepjointree.c contains some baroque logic that works around this in certain special cases --- but there is a much better answer. We can replace an empty FROM clause with a dummy RTE that acts like a table of one row and no columns, and then there are no such corner cases to worry about. Instead we need some logic to get rid of useless dummy RTEs, but that's simpler and covers more cases than what was there before. For really trivial cases, where the query is just "SELECT expression" and nothing else, there's a hazard that adding the extra RTE makes for a noticeable slowdown; even though it's not much processing, there's not that much for the planner to do overall. However testing says that the penalty is very small, close to the noise level. In more complex queries, this is able to find optimizations that we could not find before. The new RTE type is called RTE_RESULT, since the "scan" plan type it gives rise to is a Result node (the same plan we produced for a "SELECT expression" query before). To avoid confusion, rename the old ResultPath path type to GroupResultPath, reflecting that it's only used in degenerate grouping cases where we know the query produces just one grouped row. (It wouldn't work to unify the two cases, because there are different rules about where the associated quals live during query_planner.) Note: although this touches readfuncs.c, I don't think a catversion bump is required, because the added case can't occur in stored rules, only plans. Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley and Mark Dilger Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15944.1521127664@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow generalized expression syntax for partition boundsPeter Eisentraut2019-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, only literals were allowed. This change allows general expressions, including functions calls, which are evaluated at the time the DDL command is executed. Besides offering some more functionality, it simplifies the parser structures and removes some inconsistencies in how the literals were handled. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane, Amit Langote Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9f88b5e0-6da2-5227-20d0-0d7012beaa1c@lab.ntt.co.jp/
* Don't believe MinMaxExpr is leakproof without checking.Tom Lane2019-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MinMaxExpr invokes the btree comparison function for its input datatype, so it's only leakproof if that function is. Many such functions are indeed leakproof, but others are not, and we should not just assume that they are. Hence, adjust contain_leaked_vars to verify the leakproofness of the referenced function explicitly. I didn't add a regression test because it would need to depend on some particular comparison function being leaky, and that's a moving target, per discussion. This has been wrong all along, so back-patch to supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31042.1546194242@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Teach eval_const_expressions to constant-fold LEAST/GREATEST expressions.Tom Lane2018-12-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Doing this requires an assumption that the invoked btree comparison function is immutable. We could check that explicitly, but in other places such as contain_mutable_functions we just assume that it's true, so we may as well do likewise here. (If the comparison function's behavior isn't immutable, the sort order in indexes built with it would be unstable, so it seems certainly wrong for it not to be so.) Vik Fearing Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c6e8504c-4c43-35fa-6c8f-3c0b80a912cc@2ndquadrant.com
* Drop no-op CoerceToDomain nodes from expressions at planning time.Tom Lane2018-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a domain has no constraints, then CoerceToDomain doesn't really do anything and can be simplified to a RelabelType. This not only eliminates cycles at execution, but allows the planner to optimize better (for instance, match the coerced expression to an index on the underlying column). However, we do have to support invalidating the plan later if a constraint gets added to the domain. That's comparable to the case of a change to a SQL function that had been inlined into a plan, so all the necessary logic already exists for plans depending on functions. We need only duplicate or share that logic for domains. ALTER DOMAIN ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT need to be taught to send out sinval messages for the domain's pg_type entry, since those operations don't update that row. (ALTER DOMAIN SET/DROP NOT NULL do update that row, so no code change is needed for them.) Testing this revealed what's really a pre-existing bug in plpgsql: it caches the SQL-expression-tree expansion of type coercions and had no provision for invalidating entries in that cache. Up to now that was only a problem if such an expression had inlined a SQL function that got changed, which is unlikely though not impossible. But failing to track changes of domain constraints breaks an existing regression test case and would likely cause practical problems too. We could fix that locally in plpgsql, but what seems like a better idea is to build some generic infrastructure in plancache.c to store standalone expressions and track invalidation events for them. (It's tempting to wonder whether plpgsql's "simple expression" stuff could use this code with lower overhead than its current use of the heavyweight plancache APIs. But I've left that idea for later.) Other stuff fixed in passing: * Allow estimate_expression_value() to drop CoerceToDomain unconditionally, effectively assuming that the coercion will succeed. This will improve planner selectivity estimates for cases involving estimatable expressions that are coerced to domains. We could have done this independently of everything else here, but there wasn't previously any need for eval_const_expressions_mutator to know about CoerceToDomain at all. * Use a dlist for plancache.c's list of cached plans, rather than a manually threaded singly-linked list. That eliminates a potential performance problem in DropCachedPlan. * Fix a couple of inconsistencies in typecmds.c about whether operations on domains drop RowExclusiveLock on pg_type. Our common practice is that DDL operations do drop catalog locks, so standardize on that choice. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19958.1544122124@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Optimize nested ConvertRowtypeExpr nodes.Andrew Gierth2018-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A ConvertRowtypeExpr is used to translate a whole-row reference of a child to that of a parent. The planner produces nested ConvertRowtypeExpr while translating whole-row reference of a leaf partition in a multi-level partition hierarchy. Executor then translates the whole-row reference from the leaf partition into all the intermediate parent's whole-row references before arriving at the final whole-row reference. It could instead translate the whole-row reference from the leaf partition directly to the top-most parent's whole-row reference skipping any intermediate translations. Ashutosh Bapat, with tests by Kyotaro Horiguchi and some editorialization by me. Reviewed by Andres Freund, Pavel Stehule, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Dmitry Dolgov, Tom Lane.
* Fix interaction of CASE and ArrayCoerceExpr.Tom Lane2018-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An array-type coercion appearing within a CASE that has a constant (after const-folding) test expression was mangled by the planner, causing all the elements of the resulting array to be equal to the coerced value of the CASE's test expression. This is my oversight in commit c12d570fa: that changed ArrayCoerceExpr to use a subexpression involving a CaseTestExpr, and I didn't notice that eval_const_expressions needed an adjustment to keep from folding such a CaseTestExpr to a constant when it's inside a suitable CASE. This is another in what's getting to be a depressingly long line of bugs associated with misidentification of the referent of a CaseTestExpr. We're overdue to redesign that mechanism; but any such fix is unlikely to be back-patchable into v11. As a stopgap, fix eval_const_expressions to do what it must here. Also add a bunch of comments pointing out the restrictions and assumptions that are needed to make this work at all. Also fix a related oversight: contain_context_dependent_node() was not aware of the relationship of ArrayCoerceExpr to CaseTestExpr. That was somewhat fail-soft, in that the outcome of a wrong answer would be to prevent optimizations that could have been made, but let's fix it while we're at it. Per bug #15471 from Matt Williams. Back-patch to v11 where the faulty logic came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15471-1117f49271989bad@postgresql.org
* Prohibit pushing subqueries containing window function calculation toAmit Kapila2018-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | workers. Allowing window function calculation in workers leads to inconsistent results because if the input row ordering is not fully deterministic, the output of window functions might vary across workers. The fix is to treat them as parallel-restricted. In the passing, improve the coding pattern in max_parallel_hazard_walker so that it has a chain of mutually-exclusive if ... else if ... else if ... else if ... IsA tests. Reported-by: Marko Tiikkaja Bug: 15324 Author: Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Backpatch-through: 9.6 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAL9smLAnfPJCDUUG4ckX2iznj53V7VSMsYefzZieN93YxTNOcw@mail.gmail.com
* Avoid crash in eval_const_expressions if a Param's type changes.Tom Lane2018-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since commit 6719b238e it's been possible for the values of plpgsql record field variables to be exposed to the planner as Params. (Before that, plpgsql never supplied values for such variables during planning, so that the problematic code wasn't reached.) Other places that touch potentially-type-mutable Params either cope gracefully or do runtime-test-and-ereport checks that the type is what they expect. But eval_const_expressions() just had an Assert, meaning that it either failed the assertion or risked crashes due to using an incompatible value. In this case, rather than throwing an ereport immediately, we can just not perform a const-substitution in case of a mismatch. This seems important for the same reason that the Param fetch was speculative: we might not actually reach this part of the expression at runtime. Test case will follow in a separate commit. Patch by me, pursuant to bug report from Andrew Gierth. Back-patch to v11 where the previous commit appeared. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87wotkfju1.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
* Support named and default arguments in CALLPeter Eisentraut2018-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | We need to call expand_function_arguments() to expand named and default arguments. In PL/pgSQL, we also need to deal with named and default INOUT arguments when receiving the output values into variables. Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
* Fast ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a non-NULL defaultAndrew Dunstan2018-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently adding a column to a table with a non-NULL default results in a rewrite of the table. For large tables this can be both expensive and disruptive. This patch removes the need for the rewrite as long as the default value is not volatile. The default expression is evaluated at the time of the ALTER TABLE and the result stored in a new column (attmissingval) in pg_attribute, and a new column (atthasmissing) is set to true. Any existing row when fetched will be supplied with the attmissingval. New rows will have the supplied value or the default and so will never need the attmissingval. Any time the table is rewritten all the atthasmissing and attmissingval settings for the attributes are cleared, as they are no longer needed. The most visible code change from this is in heap_attisnull, which acquires a third TupleDesc argument, allowing it to detect a missing value if there is one. In many cases where it is known that there will not be any (e.g. catalog relations) NULL can be passed for this argument. Andrew Dunstan, heavily modified from an original patch from Serge Rielau. Reviewed by Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra and David Rowley. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31e2e921-7002-4c27-59f5-51f08404c858@2ndQuadrant.com
* Mop-up for letting VOID-returning SQL functions end with a SELECT.Tom Lane2018-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Part of the intent in commit fd1a421fe was to allow SQL functions that are declared to return VOID to contain anything, including an unrelated final SELECT, the same as SQL-language procedures can. However, the planner's inlining logic didn't get that memo. Fix it, and add some regression tests covering this area, since evidently we had none. In passing, clean up some typos in comments in create_function_3.sql, and get rid of its none-too-safe assumption that DROP CASCADE notice output is immutably ordered. Per report from Prabhat Sahu. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANEvxPqxAj6nNHVcaXxpTeEFPmh24Whu+23emgjiuKrhJSct0A@mail.gmail.com
* Add prokind column, replacing proisagg and proiswindowPeter Eisentraut2018-03-02
| | | | | | | | | | The new column distinguishes normal functions, procedures, aggregates, and window functions. This replaces the existing columns proisagg and proiswindow, and replaces the convention that procedures are indicated by prorettype == 0. Also change prorettype to be VOIDOID for procedures. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
* Fix Latin spellingPeter Eisentraut2018-01-11
| | | | "c.f." should be "cf.".
* Teach eval_const_expressions() to handle some more cases.Tom Lane2018-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some infrastructure (mostly macros) to make it easier to write typical cases for constant-expression simplification. Add simplification processing for ArrayRef, RowExpr, and ScalarArrayOpExpr node types, which formerly went unsimplified even if all their inputs were constants. Also teach it to simplify FieldSelect from a composite constant. Make use of the new infrastructure to reduce the amount of code needed for the existing ArrayExpr and ArrayCoerceExpr cases. One existing test case changes output as a result of the fact that RowExpr can now be folded to a constant. All the new code is exercised by existing test cases according to gcov, so I feel no need to add additional tests. Tom Lane, reviewed by Dmitry Dolgov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3be3b82c-e29c-b674-2163-bf47d98817b1@iki.fi
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Rearrange execution of PARAM_EXTERN Params for plpgsql's benefit.Tom Lane2017-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch does three interrelated things: * Create a new expression execution step type EEOP_PARAM_CALLBACK and add the infrastructure needed for add-on modules to generate that. As discussed, the best control mechanism for that seems to be to add another hook function to ParamListInfo, which will be called by ExecInitExpr if it's supplied and a PARAM_EXTERN Param is found. For stand-alone expressions, we add a new entry point to allow the ParamListInfo to be specified directly, since it can't be retrieved from the parent plan node's EState. * Redesign the API for the ParamListInfo paramFetch hook so that the ParamExternData array can be entirely virtual. This also lets us get rid of ParamListInfo.paramMask, instead leaving it to the paramFetch hook to decide which param IDs should be accessible or not. plpgsql_param_fetch was already doing the identical masking check, so having callers do it too seemed redundant. While I was at it, I added a "speculative" flag to paramFetch that the planner can specify as TRUE to avoid unwanted failures. This solves an ancient problem for plpgsql that it couldn't provide values of non-DTYPE_VAR variables to the planner for fear of triggering premature "record not assigned yet" or "field not found" errors during planning. * Rework plpgsql to get rid of the need for "unshared" parameter lists, by dint of turning the single ParamListInfo per estate into a nearly read-only data structure that doesn't instantiate any per-variable data. Instead, the paramFetch hook controls access to per-variable data and can make the right decisions on the fly, replacing the cases that we used to need multiple ParamListInfos for. This might perhaps have been a performance loss on its own, but by using a paramCompile hook we can bypass plpgsql_param_fetch entirely during normal query execution. (It's now only called when, eg, we copy the ParamListInfo into a cursor portal. copyParamList() or SerializeParamList() effectively instantiate the virtual parameter array as a simple physical array without a paramFetch hook, which is what we want in those cases.) This allows reverting most of commit 6c82d8d1f, though I kept the cosmetic code-consolidation aspects of that (eg the assign_simple_var function). Performance testing shows this to be at worst a break-even change, and it can provide wins ranging up to 20% in test cases involving accesses to fields of "record" variables. The fact that values of such variables can now be exposed to the planner might produce wins in some situations, too, but I've not pursued that angle. In passing, remove the "parent" pointer from the arguments to ExecInitExprRec and related functions, instead storing that pointer in a transient field in ExprState. The ParamListInfo pointer for a stand-alone expression is handled the same way; we'd otherwise have had to add yet another recursively-passed-down argument in expression compilation. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32589.1513706441@sss.pgh.pa.us
* SQL proceduresPeter Eisentraut2017-11-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new object type "procedure" that is similar to a function but does not have a return type and is invoked by the new CALL statement instead of SELECT or similar. This implementation is aligned with the SQL standard and compatible with or similar to other SQL implementations. This commit adds new commands CALL, CREATE/ALTER/DROP PROCEDURE, as well as ALTER/DROP ROUTINE that can refer to either a function or a procedure (or an aggregate function, as an extension to SQL). There is also support for procedures in various utility commands such as COMMENT and GRANT, as well as support in pg_dump and psql. Support for defining procedures is available in all the languages supplied by the core distribution. While this commit is mainly syntax sugar around existing functionality, future features will rely on having procedures as a separate object type. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
* Update typedefs.list and re-run pgindentRobert Haas2017-11-29
| | | | Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaA9=1RWKtBWpDaj+sF3Stgc8sHgf5z=KGtbjwPLQVDMA@mail.gmail.com
* Pass InitPlan values to workers via Gather (Merge).Robert Haas2017-11-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a PARAM_EXEC parameter is used below a Gather (Merge) but the InitPlan that computes it is attached to or above the Gather (Merge), force the value to be computed before starting parallelism and pass it down to all workers. This allows us to use parallelism in cases where it previously would have had to be rejected as unsafe. We do - in this case - lose the optimization that the value is only computed if it's actually used. An alternative strategy would be to have the first worker that needs the value compute it, but one downside of that approach is that we'd then need to select a parallel-safe path to compute the parameter value; it couldn't for example contain a Gather (Merge) node. At some point in the future, we might want to consider both approaches. Independent of that consideration, there is a great deal more work that could be done to make more kinds of PARAM_EXEC parameters parallel-safe. This infrastructure could be used to allow a Gather (Merge) on the inner side of a nested loop (although that's not a very appealing plan) and cases where the InitPlan is attached below the Gather (Merge) could be addressed as well using various techniques. But this is a good start. Amit Kapila, reviewed and revised by me. Reviewing and testing from Kuntal Ghosh, Haribabu Kommi, and Tushar Ahuja. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LV0Y1AUV4cUCdC+sYOx0Z0-8NAJ2Pd9=UKsbQ5Sr7+JQ@mail.gmail.com
* Track in the plan the types associated with PARAM_EXEC parameters.Robert Haas2017-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | Up until now, we only tracked the number of parameters, which was sufficient to allocate an array of Datums of the appropriate size, but not sufficient to, for example, know how to serialize a Datum stored in one of those slots. An upcoming patch wants to do that, so add this tracking to make it possible. Patch by me, reviewed by Tom Lane and Amit Kapila. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYqpxDKn8koHdW8BEKk8FMUL0=e8m2Qe=M+r0UBjr3tuQ@mail.gmail.com
* Change TRUE/FALSE to true/falsePeter Eisentraut2017-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most parts of the PostgreSQL sources. The upper case spellings are only used in some files/modules. So standardize on the standard spellings. The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so those are left as is when using those APIs. In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Allow parallel query for prepared statements with generic plans.Robert Haas2017-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This was always intended to work, but due to an oversight in max_parallel_hazard_walker, it didn't. In testing, we missed the fact that it was only working for custom plans, where the parameter value has been substituted for the parameter itself early enough that everything worked. In a generic plan, the Param node survives and must be treated as parallel-safe. SerializeParamList provides for the transmission of parameter values to workers. Amit Kapila with help from Kuntal Ghosh. Some changes by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+_BuZrmVCeua5Eqnm4Co9DAXdM5HPAOE2J19ePbR912Q@mail.gmail.com
* Support domains over composite types.Tom Lane2017-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the last major omission in our domains feature: you can now make a domain over anything that's not a pseudotype. The major complication from an implementation standpoint is that places that might be creating tuples of a domain type now need to be prepared to apply domain_check(). It seems better that unprepared code fail with an error like "<type> is not composite" than that it silently fail to apply domain constraints. Therefore, relevant infrastructure like get_func_result_type() and lookup_rowtype_tupdesc() has been adjusted to treat domain-over-composite as a distinct case that unprepared code won't recognize, rather than just transparently treating it the same as plain composite. This isn't a 100% solution to the possibility of overlooked domain checks, but it catches most places. In passing, improve typcache.c's support for domains (it can now cache the identity of a domain's base type), and rewrite the argument handling logic in jsonfuncs.c's populate_record[set]_worker to reduce duplicative per-call lookups. I believe this is code-complete so far as the core and contrib code go. The PLs need varying amounts of work, which will be tackled in followup patches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4206.1499798337@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Support arrays over domains.Tom Lane2017-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allowing arrays with a domain type as their element type was left un-done in the original domain patch, but not for any very good reason. This omission leads to such surprising results as array_agg() not working on a domain column, because the parser can't identify a suitable output type for the polymorphic aggregate. In order to fix this, first clean up the APIs of coerce_to_domain() and some internal functions in parse_coerce.c so that we consistently pass around a CoercionContext along with CoercionForm. Previously, we sometimes passed an "isExplicit" boolean flag instead, which is strictly less information; and coerce_to_domain() didn't even get that, but instead had to reverse-engineer isExplicit from CoercionForm. That's contrary to the documentation in primnodes.h that says that CoercionForm only affects display and not semantics. I don't think this change fixes any live bugs, but it makes things more consistent. The main reason for doing it though is that now build_coercion_expression() receives ccontext, which it needs in order to be able to recursively invoke coerce_to_target_type(). Next, reimplement ArrayCoerceExpr so that the node does not directly know any details of what has to be done to the individual array elements while performing the array coercion. Instead, the per-element processing is represented by a sub-expression whose input is a source array element and whose output is a target array element. This simplifies life in parse_coerce.c, because it can build that sub-expression by a recursive invocation of coerce_to_target_type(). The executor now handles the per-element processing as a compiled expression instead of hard-wired code. The main advantage of this is that we can use a single ArrayCoerceExpr to handle as many as three successive steps per element: base type conversion, typmod coercion, and domain constraint checking. The old code used two stacked ArrayCoerceExprs to handle type + typmod coercion, which was pretty inefficient, and adding yet another array deconstruction to do domain constraint checking seemed very unappetizing. In the case where we just need a single, very simple coercion function, doing this straightforwardly leads to a noticeable increase in the per-array-element runtime cost. Hence, add an additional shortcut evalfunc in execExprInterp.c that skips unnecessary overhead for that specific form of expression. The runtime speed of simple cases is within 1% or so of where it was before, while cases that previously required two levels of array processing are significantly faster. Finally, create an implicit array type for every domain type, as we do for base types, enums, etc. Everything except the array-coercion case seems to just work without further effort. Tom Lane, reviewed by Andrew Dunstan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9852.1499791473@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Change tupledesc->attrs[n] to TupleDescAttr(tupledesc, n).Andres Freund2017-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that will change the layout of TupleDesc. Introducing a macro to abstract the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change that in separate step and revise it in future. Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
* Simplify plpgsql's check for simple expressions.Tom Lane2017-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | plpgsql wants to recognize expressions that it can execute directly via ExecEvalExpr() instead of going through the full SPI machinery. Originally the test for this consisted of recursively groveling through the post-planning expression tree to see if it contained only nodes that plpgsql recognized as safe. That was a major maintenance headache, since it required updating plpgsql every time we added any kind of expression node. It was also kind of expensive, so over time we added various pre-planning checks to try to short-circuit having to do that. Robert Haas pointed out that as of the SRF-processing changes in v10, particularly the addition of Query.hasTargetSRFs, there really isn't any reason to make the recursive scan at all: the initial checks cover everything we really care about. We do have to make sure that those checks agree with what inline_function() considers, so that inlining of a function that formerly wasn't inlined can't cause an expression considered simple to become non-simple. Hence, delete the recursive function exec_simple_check_node(), and tweak those other tests to more exactly agree with inline_function(). Adjust some comments and function naming to match. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGZpwdEV2FQWaVxA_qZXsQE1DAS5Fu8fwxXDNvfndiUQ@mail.gmail.com
* Code review for NextValueExpr expression node type.Tom Lane2017-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add missing infrastructure for this node type, notably in ruleutils.c where its lack could demonstrably cause EXPLAIN to fail. Add outfuncs/readfuncs support. (outfuncs support is useful today for debugging purposes. The readfuncs support may never be needed, since at present it would only matter for parallel query and NextValueExpr should never appear in a parallelizable query; but it seems like a bad idea to have a primnode type that isn't fully supported here.) Teach planner infrastructure that NextValueExpr is a volatile, parallel-unsafe, non-leaky expression node with cost cpu_operator_cost. Given its limited scope of usage, there *might* be no live bug today from the lack of that knowledge, but it's certainly going to bite us on the rear someday. Teach pg_stat_statements about the new node type, too. While at it, also teach cost_qual_eval() that MinMaxExpr, SQLValueFunction, XmlExpr, and CoerceToDomain should be charged as cpu_operator_cost. Failing to do this for SQLValueFunction was an oversight in my commit 0bb51aa96. The others are longer-standing oversights, but no time like the present to fix them. (In principle, CoerceToDomain could have cost much higher than this, but it doesn't presently seem worth trying to examine the domain's constraints here.) Modify execExprInterp.c to execute NextValueExpr as an out-of-line function; it seems quite unlikely to me that it's worth insisting that it be inlined in all expression eval methods. Besides, providing the out-of-line function doesn't stop anyone from inlining if they want to. Adjust some places where NextValueExpr support had been inserted with the aid of a dartboard rather than keeping it in the same order as elsewhere. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23862.1499981661@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they flow past the right margin. By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin, then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin, if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column limit. This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers. Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix testing of parallel-safety of SubPlans.Tom Lane2017-04-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | is_parallel_safe() supposed that the only relevant property of a SubPlan was the parallel safety of the referenced subplan tree. This is wrong: the testexpr or args subtrees might contain parallel-unsafe stuff, as demonstrated by the test case added here. However, just recursing into the subtrees fails in a different way: we'll typically find PARAM_EXEC Params representing the subplan's output columns in the testexpr. The previous coding supposed that any Param must be treated as parallel-restricted, so that a naive attempt at fixing this disabled parallel pushdown of SubPlans altogether. We must instead determine, for any visited Param, whether it is one that would be computed by a surrounding SubPlan node; if so, it's safe to push down along with the SubPlan node. We might later be able to extend this logic to cope with Params used for correlated subplans and other cases; but that's a task for v11 or beyond. Tom Lane and Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7064.1492022469@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Improve castNode notation by introducing list-extraction-specific variants.Tom Lane2017-04-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This extends the castNode() notation introduced by commit 5bcab1114 to provide, in one step, extraction of a list cell's pointer and coercion to a concrete node type. For example, "lfirst_node(Foo, lc)" is the same as "castNode(Foo, lfirst(lc))". Almost half of the uses of castNode that have appeared so far include a list extraction call, so this is pretty widely useful, and it saves a few more keystrokes compared to the old way. As with the previous patch, back-patch the addition of these macros to pg_list.h, so that the notation will be available when back-patching. Patch by me, after an idea of Andrew Gierth's. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14197.1491841216@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Add infrastructure to support EphemeralNamedRelation references.Kevin Grittner2017-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A QueryEnvironment concept is added, which allows new types of objects to be passed into queries from parsing on through execution. At this point, the only thing implemented is a collection of EphemeralNamedRelation objects -- relations which can be referenced by name in queries, but do not exist in the catalogs. The only type of ENR implemented is NamedTuplestore, but provision is made to add more types fairly easily. An ENR can carry its own TupleDesc or reference a relation in the catalogs by relid. Although these features can be used without SPI, convenience functions are added to SPI so that ENRs can easily be used by code run through SPI. The initial use of all this is going to be transition tables in AFTER triggers, but that will be added to each PL as a separate commit. An incidental effect of this patch is to produce a more informative error message if an attempt is made to modify the contents of a CTE from a referencing DML statement. No tests previously covered that possibility, so one is added. Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas, David Fetter, and Thomas Munro with valuable comments and suggestions from many others
* Update some obsolete comments.Tom Lane2017-03-26
| | | | | Fix a few stray references to expression eval functions that don't exist anymore or don't take the same input representation they used to.
* 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
* Make more use of castNode()Peter Eisentraut2017-02-21
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* Allow parallel workers to execute subplans.Robert Haas2017-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This doesn't do anything to make Param nodes anything other than parallel-restricted, so this only helps with uncorrelated subplans, and it's not necessarily very cheap because each worker will run the subplan separately (just as a Hash Join will build a separate copy of the hash table in each participating process), but it's a first step toward supporting cases that are more likely to help in practice, and is occasionally useful on its own. Amit Kapila, reviewed and tested by Rafia Sabih, Dilip Kumar, and me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+e8Z45D2n+rnDMDYsVEb5iW7jqaCH_tvPMYau=1Rru9w@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
* Move targetlist SRF handling from expression evaluation to new executor node.Andres Freund2017-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Evaluation of set returning functions (SRFs_ in the targetlist (like SELECT generate_series(1,5)) so far was done in the expression evaluation (i.e. ExecEvalExpr()) and projection (i.e. ExecProject/ExecTargetList) code. This meant that most executor nodes performing projection, and most expression evaluation functions, had to deal with the possibility that an evaluated expression could return a set of return values. That's bad because it leads to repeated code in a lot of places. It also, and that's my (Andres's) motivation, made it a lot harder to implement a more efficient way of doing expression evaluation. To fix this, introduce a new executor node (ProjectSet) that can evaluate targetlists containing one or more SRFs. To avoid the complexity of the old way of handling nested expressions returning sets (e.g. having to pass up ExprDoneCond, and dealing with arguments to functions returning sets etc.), those SRFs can only be at the top level of the node's targetlist. The planner makes sure (via split_pathtarget_at_srfs()) that SRF evaluation is only necessary in ProjectSet nodes and that SRFs are only present at the top level of the node's targetlist. If there are nested SRFs the planner creates multiple stacked ProjectSet nodes. The ProjectSet nodes always get input from an underlying node. We also discussed and prototyped evaluating targetlist SRFs using ROWS FROM(), but that turned out to be more complicated than we'd hoped. While moving SRF evaluation to ProjectSet would allow to retain the old "least common multiple" behavior when multiple SRFs are present in one targetlist (i.e. continue returning rows until all SRFs are at the end of their input at the same time), we decided to instead only return rows till all SRFs are exhausted, returning NULL for already exhausted ones. We deemed the previous behavior to be too confusing, unexpected and actually not particularly useful. As a side effect, the previously prohibited case of multiple set returning arguments to a function, is now allowed. Not because it's particularly desirable, but because it ends up working and there seems to be no argument for adding code to prohibit it. Currently the behavior for COALESCE and CASE containing SRFs has changed, returning multiple rows from the expression, even when the SRF containing "arm" of the expression is not evaluated. That's because the SRFs are evaluated in a separate ProjectSet node. As that's quite confusing, we're likely to instead prohibit SRFs in those places. But that's still being discussed, and the code would reside in places not touched here, so that's a task for later. There's a lot of, now superfluous, code dealing with set return expressions around. But as the changes to get rid of those are verbose largely boring, it seems better for readability to keep the cleanup as a separate commit. Author: Tom Lane and Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160822214023.aaxz5l4igypowyri@alap3.anarazel.de
* Improve RLS planning by marking individual quals with security levels.Tom Lane2017-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In an RLS query, we must ensure that security filter quals are evaluated before ordinary query quals, in case the latter contain "leaky" functions that could expose the contents of sensitive rows. The original implementation of RLS planning ensured this by pushing the scan of a secured table into a sub-query that it marked as a security-barrier view. Unfortunately this results in very inefficient plans in many cases, because the sub-query cannot be flattened and gets planned independently of the rest of the query. To fix, drop the use of sub-queries to enforce RLS qual order, and instead mark each qual (RestrictInfo) with a security_level field establishing its priority for evaluation. Quals must be evaluated in security_level order, except that "leakproof" quals can be allowed to go ahead of quals of lower security_level, if it's helpful to do so. This has to be enforced within the ordering of any one list of quals to be evaluated at a table scan node, and we also have to ensure that quals are not chosen for early evaluation (i.e., use as an index qual or TID scan qual) if they're not allowed to go ahead of other quals at the scan node. This is sufficient to fix the problem for RLS quals, since we only support RLS policies on simple tables and thus RLS quals will always exist at the table scan level only. Eventually these qual ordering rules should be enforced for join quals as well, which would permit improving planning for explicit security-barrier views; but that's a task for another patch. Note that FDWs would need to be aware of these rules --- and not, for example, send an insecure qual for remote execution --- but since we do not yet allow RLS policies on foreign tables, the case doesn't arise. This will need to be addressed before we can allow such policies. Patch by me, reviewed by Stephen Frost and Dean Rasheed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8185.1477432701@sss.pgh.pa.us