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* Fix some infelicities in EXPLAIN output for parallel query plans.Tom Lane2016-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In non-text output formats, parallelized aggregates were reporting "Partial" or "Finalize" as a field named "Operation", which might be all right in the absence of any context --- but other plan node types use that field to report SQL-visible semantics, such as Select/Insert/Update/Delete. So that naming choice didn't seem good to me. I changed it to "Partial Mode". Also, the field did not appear at all for a non-parallelized Agg plan node, which is contrary to expectation in non-text formats. We're notionally producing objects that conform to a schema, so the set of fields for a given node type and EXPLAIN mode should be well-defined. I set it up to fill in "Simple" in such cases. Other fields that were added for parallel query, namely "Parallel Aware" and Gather's "Single Copy", had not gotten the word on that point either. Make them appear always in non-text output. Also, the latter two fields were nominally producing boolean output, but were getting it wrong, because bool values shouldn't be quoted in JSON or YAML. Somehow we'd not needed an ExplainPropertyBool formatting subroutine before 9.6; but now we do, so invent it. Discussion: <16002.1466972724@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
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* pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian2015-05-23
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* Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.Andres Freund2015-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This SQL standard functionality allows to aggregate data by different GROUP BY clauses at once. Each grouping set returns rows with columns grouped by in other sets set to NULL. This could previously be achieved by doing each grouping as a separate query, conjoined by UNION ALLs. Besides being considerably more concise, grouping sets will in many cases be faster, requiring only one scan over the underlying data. The current implementation of grouping sets only supports using sorting for input. Individual sets that share a sort order are computed in one pass. If there are sets that don't share a sort order, additional sort & aggregation steps are performed. These additional passes are sourced by the previous sort step; thus avoiding repeated scans of the source data. The code is structured in a way that adding support for purely using hash aggregation or a mix of hashing and sorting is possible. Sorting was chosen to be supported first, as it is the most generic method of implementation. Instead of, as in an earlier versions of the patch, representing the chain of sort and aggregation steps as full blown planner and executor nodes, all but the first sort are performed inside the aggregation node itself. This avoids the need to do some unusual gymnastics to handle having to return aggregated and non-aggregated tuples from underlying nodes, as well as having to shut down underlying nodes early to limit memory usage. The optimizer still builds Sort/Agg node to describe each phase, but they're not part of the plan tree, but instead additional data for the aggregation node. They're a convenient and preexisting way to describe aggregation and sorting. The first (and possibly only) sort step is still performed as a separate execution step. That retains similarity with existing group by plans, makes rescans fairly simple, avoids very deep plans (leading to slow explains) and easily allows to avoid the sorting step if the underlying data is sorted by other means. A somewhat ugly side of this patch is having to deal with a grammar ambiguity between the new CUBE keyword and the cube extension/functions named cube (and rollup). To avoid breaking existing deployments of the cube extension it has not been renamed, neither has cube been made a reserved keyword. Instead precedence hacking is used to make GROUP BY cube(..) refer to the CUBE grouping sets feature, and not the function cube(). To actually group by a function cube(), unlikely as that might be, the function name has to be quoted. Needs a catversion bump because stored rules may change. Author: Andrew Gierth and Atri Sharma, with contributions from Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Tom Lane, Svenne Krap, Tomas Vondra, Erik Rijkers, Marti Raudsepp, Pavel Stehule Discussion: CAOeZVidmVRe2jU6aMk_5qkxnB7dfmPROzM7Ur8JPW5j8Y5X-Lw@mail.gmail.com
* Rearrange explain.c's API so callers need not embed sizeof(ExplainState).Tom Lane2015-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | The folly of the previous arrangement was just demonstrated: there's no convenient way to add fields to ExplainState without breaking ABI, even if callers have no need to touch those fields. Since we might well need to do that again someday in back branches, let's change things so that only explain.c has to have sizeof(ExplainState) compiled into it. This costs one extra palloc() per EXPLAIN operation, which is surely pretty negligible.
* Improve performance of EXPLAIN with large range tables.Tom Lane2015-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As of 9.3, ruleutils.c goes to some lengths to ensure that table and column aliases used in its output are unique. Of course this takes more time than was required before, which in itself isn't fatal. However, EXPLAIN was set up so that recalculation of the unique aliases was repeated for each subexpression printed in a plan. That results in O(N^2) time and memory consumption for large plan trees, which did not happen in older branches. Fortunately, the expensive work is the same across a whole plan tree, so there is no need to repeat it; we can do most of the initialization just once per query and re-use it for each subexpression. This buys back most (not all) of the performance loss since 9.2. We need an extra ExplainState field to hold the precalculated deparse context. That's no problem in HEAD, but in the back branches, expanding sizeof(ExplainState) seems risky because third-party extensions might have local variables of that struct type. So, in 9.4 and 9.3, introduce an auxiliary struct to keep sizeof(ExplainState) the same. We should refactor the APIs to avoid such local variables in future, but that's material for a separate HEAD-only commit. Per gripe from Alexey Bashtanov. Back-patch to 9.3 where the issue was introduced.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
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* Print planning time only in EXPLAIN ANALYZE, not plain EXPLAIN.Tom Lane2014-10-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | We've gotten enough push-back on that change to make it clear that it wasn't an especially good idea to do it like that. Revert plain EXPLAIN to its previous behavior, but keep the extra output in EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Per discussion. Internally, I set this up as a separate flag ExplainState.summary that controls printing of planning time and execution time. For now it's just copied from the ANALYZE option, but we could consider exposing it to users.
* Include planning time in EXPLAIN ANALYZE output.Robert Haas2014-01-29
| | | | | | | | This doesn't work for prepared queries, but it's not too easy to get the information in that case and there's some debate as to exactly what the right thing to measure is, so just do this for now. Andreas Karlsson, with slight doc changes by me.
* Expose a routine to print triggers during EXPLAIN ANALYZEAlvaro Herrera2014-01-20
| | | | | | This is so that auto_explain can use it. Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Clean up the mess around EXPLAIN and materialized views.Tom Lane2013-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert the matview-related changes in explain.c's API, as per recent complaint from Robert Haas. The reason for these appears to have been principally some ill-considered choices around having intorel_startup do what ought to be parse-time checking, plus a poor arrangement for passing it the view parsetree it needs to store into pg_rewrite when creating a materialized view. Do the latter by having parse analysis stick a copy into the IntoClause, instead of doing it at runtime. (On the whole, I seriously question the choice to represent CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW as a variant of SELECT INTO/CREATE TABLE AS, because that means injecting even more complexity into what was already a horrid legacy kluge. However, I didn't go so far as to rethink that choice ... yet.) I also moved several error checks into matview parse analysis, and made the check for external Params in a matview more accurate. In passing, clean things up a bit more around interpretOidsOption(), and fix things so that we can use that to force no-oids for views, sequences, etc, thereby eliminating the need to cons up "oids = false" options when creating them. catversion bump due to change in IntoClause. (I wonder though if we really need readfuncs/outfuncs support for IntoClause anymore.)
* Adjust ExplainOneQuery_hook_type to take a DestReceiver argument.Robert Haas2013-04-09
| | | | | | | | The materialized views patch adjusted ExplainOneQuery to take an additional DestReceiver argument, but failed to add a matching argument to the definition of ExplainOneQuery_hook. This is a problem for users of the hook that want to call ExplainOnePlan. Fix by adding the missing argument.
* Add a materialized view relations.Kevin Grittner2013-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A materialized view has a rule just like a view and a heap and other physical properties like a table. The rule is only used to populate the table, references in queries refer to the materialized data. This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in many cases. Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements. It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining what is "fresh" data will be developed. At some point it may even be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of references to underlying tables, but that requires the other above-mentioned features to be working first. Much of the documentation work by Robert Haas. Review by Noah Misch, Thom Brown, Robert Haas, Marko Tiikkaja Security review by KaiGai Kohei, with a decision on how best to implement sepgsql still pending.
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Improve ruleutils.c's heuristics for dealing with rangetable aliases.Tom Lane2012-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous scheme had bugs in some corner cases involving tables that had been renamed since a view was made. This could result in dumped views that failed to reload or reloaded incorrectly, as seen in bug #7553 from Lloyd Albin, as well as in some pgsql-hackers discussion back in January. Also, its behavior for printing EXPLAIN plans was sometimes confusing because of willingness to use the same alias for multiple RTEs (it was Ashutosh Bapat's complaint about that aspect that started the January thread). To fix, ensure that each RTE in the query has a unique unqualified alias, by modifying the alias if necessary (we add "_" and digits as needed to create a non-conflicting name). Then we can just print its variables with that alias, avoiding the confusing and bug-prone scheme of sometimes schema-qualifying variable names. In EXPLAIN, it proves to be expedient to take the further step of only assigning such aliases to RTEs that are actually referenced in the query, since the planner has a habit of generating extra RTEs with the same alias in situations such as inheritance-tree expansion. Although this fixes a bug of very long standing, I'm hesitant to back-patch such a noticeable behavioral change. My experiments while creating a regression test convinced me that actually incorrect output (as opposed to confusing output) occurs only in very narrow cases, which is backed up by the lack of previous complaints from the field. So we may be better off living with it in released branches; and in any case it'd be smart to let this ripen awhile in HEAD before we consider back-patching it.
* Split heapam_xlog.h from heapam.hAlvaro Herrera2012-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | The heapam XLog functions are used by other modules, not all of which are interested in the rest of the heapam API. With this, we let them get just the XLog stuff in which they are interested and not pollute them with unrelated includes. Also, since heapam.h no longer requires xlog.h, many files that do include heapam.h no longer get xlog.h automatically, including a few headers. This is useful because heapam.h is getting pulled in by execnodes.h, which is in turn included by a lot of files.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Restructure SELECT INTO's parsetree representation into CreateTableAsStmt.Tom Lane2012-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Making this operation look like a utility statement seems generally a good idea, and particularly so in light of the desire to provide command triggers for utility statements. The original choice of representing it as SELECT with an IntoClause appendage had metastasized into rather a lot of places, unfortunately, so that this patch is a great deal more complicated than one might at first expect. In particular, keeping EXPLAIN working for SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS subcommands required restructuring some EXPLAIN-related APIs. Add-on code that calls ExplainOnePlan or ExplainOneUtility, or uses ExplainOneQuery_hook, will need adjustment. Also, the cases PREPARE ... SELECT INTO and CREATE RULE ... SELECT INTO, which formerly were accepted though undocumented, are no longer accepted. The PREPARE case can be replaced with use of CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE. The CREATE RULE case doesn't seem to have much real-world use (since the rule would work only once before failing with "table already exists"), so we'll not bother with that one. Both SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS still return a command tag of "SELECT nnnn". There was some discussion of returning "CREATE TABLE nnnn", but for the moment backwards compatibility wins the day. Andres Freund and Tom Lane
* Add TIMING option to EXPLAIN, to allow eliminating of timing overhead.Robert Haas2012-02-07
| | | | | | | | Sometimes it may be useful to get actual row counts out of EXPLAIN (ANALYZE) without paying the cost of timing every node entry/exit. With this patch, you can say EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF) to get that. Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Eric Theise, with minor doc changes by me.
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1.Bruce Momjian2011-04-10
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* Implement an API to let foreign-data wrappers actually be functional.Tom Lane2011-02-20
| | | | | | | This commit provides the core code and documentation needed. A contrib module test case will follow shortly. Shigeru Hanada, Jan Urbanski, Heikki Linnakangas
* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian2010-02-26
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* Add query text to auto_explain output.Andrew Dunstan2010-02-16
| | | | Still to be done: fix docs and fix regression failures under auto_explain.
* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* Add an EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) option to show buffer-usage statistics.Robert Haas2009-12-15
| | | | | | | | This patch also removes buffer-usage statistics from the track_counts output, since this (or the global server statistics) is deemed to be a better interface to this information. Itagaki Takahiro, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
* Export ExplainBeginOutput() and ExplainEndOutput() for auto_explain.Robert Haas2009-12-12
| | | | | | | | | Without these functions, anyone outside of explain.c can't actually use ExplainPrintPlan, because the ExplainState won't be initialized properly. The user-visible result of this was a crash when using auto_explain with the JSON output format. Report by Euler Taveira de Oliveira. Analysis by Tom Lane. Patch by me.
* Add YAML to list of EXPLAIN formats. Greg Sabino Mullane, reviewed by ↵Andrew Dunstan2009-12-11
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* Extend EXPLAIN to support output in XML or JSON format.Tom Lane2009-08-10
| | | | | | | There are probably still some adjustments to be made in the details of the output, but this gets the basic structure in place. Robert Haas
* Extend EXPLAIN to allow generic options to be specified.Tom Lane2009-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original syntax made it difficult to add options without making them into reserved words. This change parenthesizes the options to avoid that problem, and makes provision for an explicit (and perhaps non-Boolean) value for each option. The original syntax is still supported, but only for the two original options ANALYZE and VERBOSE. As a test case, add a COSTS option that can suppress the planner cost estimates. This may be useful for including EXPLAIN output in the regression tests, which are otherwise unable to cope with cross-platform variations in cost estimates. Robert Haas
* 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian2009-06-11
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* Include a pointer to the query's source text in QueryDesc structs. This isTom Lane2009-01-02
| | | | | | | practically free given prior 8.4 changes in plancache and portal management, and it makes it a lot easier for ExecutorStart/Run/End hooks to get at the query text. Extracted from Itagaki Takahiro's pg_stat_statements patch, with minor editorialization.
* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Some infrastructure changes for the upcoming auto-explain contrib module:Tom Lane2008-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Refactor explain.c slightly to export a convenient-to-use subroutine for printing EXPLAIN results. * Provide hooks for plugins to get control at ExecutorStart and ExecutorEnd as well as ExecutorRun. * Add some minimal support for tracking the total runtime of ExecutorRun. This code won't actually do anything unless a plugin prods it to. * Change the API of the DefineCustomXXXVariable functions to allow nonzero "flags" to be specified for a custom GUC variable. While at it, also make the "bootstrap" default value for custom GUCs be explicitly specified as a parameter to these functions. This is to eliminate confusion over where the default comes from, as has been expressed in the past by some users of the custom-variable facility. * Refactor GUC code a bit to ensure that a custom variable gets initialized to something valid (like its default value) even if the placeholder value was invalid.
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* Re-run pgindent with updated list of typedefs. (Updated README shouldBruce Momjian2007-11-15
| | | | avoid this problem in the future.)
* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* Rename DLLIMPORT macro to PGDLLIMPORT to avoid conflict withMagnus Hagander2007-07-25
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* Create hooks to let a loadable plugin monitor (or even replace) the plannerTom Lane2007-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and/or create plans for hypothetical situations; in particular, investigate plans that would be generated using hypothetical indexes. This is a heavily-rewritten version of the hooks proposed by Gurjeet Singh for his Index Advisor project. In this formulation, the index advisor can be entirely a loadable module instead of requiring a significant part to be in the core backend, and plans can be generated for hypothetical indexes without requiring the creation and rolling-back of system catalog entries. The index advisor patch as-submitted is not compatible with these hooks, but it needs significant work anyway due to other 8.2-to-8.3 planner changes. With these hooks in the core backend, development of the advisor can proceed as a pgfoundry project.
* First phase of plan-invalidation project: create a plan cache managementTom Lane2007-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | module and teach PREPARE and protocol-level prepared statements to use it. In service of this, rearrange utility-statement processing so that parse analysis does not assume table schemas can't change before execution for utility statements (necessary because we don't attempt to re-acquire locks for utility statements when reusing a stored plan). This requires some refactoring of the ProcessUtility API, but it ends up cleaner anyway, for instance we can get rid of the QueryContext global. Still to do: fix up SPI and related code to use the plan cache; I'm tempted to try to make SQL functions use it too. Also, there are at least some aspects of system state that we want to ensure remain the same during a replan as in the original processing; search_path certainly ought to behave that way for instance, and perhaps there are others.
* Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian2006-10-04
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* Allow include files to compile own their own.Bruce Momjian2006-07-13
| | | | | | | Strip unused include files out unused include files, and add needed includes to C files. The next step is to remove unused include files in C files.
* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Fix EXPLAIN and EXECUTE commands to pass portal parameters through toTom Lane2005-11-29
| | | | | the executor. This allows, for example, JDBC clients to use '?' bound parameters in these commands. Per gripe from Virag Saksena.
* 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 ...
* Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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