Teach nbtree multi-column index scans to opportunistically skip over
irrelevant sections of the index given a query with no "=" conditions on
one or more prefix index columns. When nbtree is passed input scan keys
derived from a predicate "WHERE b = 5", new nbtree preprocessing steps
output "WHERE a = ANY(<every possible 'a' value>) AND b = 5" scan keys.
That is, preprocessing generates a "skip array" (and an output scan key)
for the omitted prefix column "a", which makes it safe to mark the scan
key on "b" as required to continue the scan. The scan is therefore able
to repeatedly reposition itself by applying both the "a" and "b" keys.
A skip array has "elements" that are generated procedurally and on
demand, but otherwise works just like a regular ScalarArrayOp array.
Preprocessing can freely add a skip array before or after any input
ScalarArrayOp arrays. Index scans with a skip array decide when and
where to reposition the scan using the same approach as any other scan
with array keys. This design builds on the design for array advancement
and primitive scan scheduling added to Postgres 17 by commit 5bf748b8.
Testing has shown that skip scans of an index with a low cardinality
skipped prefix column can be multiple orders of magnitude faster than an
equivalent full index scan (or sequential scan). In general, the
cardinality of the scan's skipped column(s) limits the number of leaf
pages that can be skipped over.
The core B-Tree operator classes on most discrete types generate their
array elements with the help of their own custom skip support routine.
This infrastructure gives nbtree a way to generate the next required
array element by incrementing (or decrementing) the current array value.
It can reduce the number of index descents in cases where the next
possible indexable value frequently turns out to be the next value
stored in the index. Opclasses that lack a skip support routine fall
back on having nbtree "increment" (or "decrement") a skip array's
current element by setting the NEXT (or PRIOR) scan key flag, without
directly changing the scan key's sk_argument. These sentinel values
behave just like any other value from an array -- though they can never
locate equal index tuples (they can only locate the next group of index
tuples containing the next set of non-sentinel values that the scan's
arrays need to advance to).
A skip array's range is constrained by "contradictory" inequality keys.
For example, a skip array on "x" will only generate the values 1 and 2
given a qual such as "WHERE x BETWEEN 1 AND 2 AND y = 66". Such a skip
array qual usually has near-identical performance characteristics to a
comparable SAOP qual "WHERE x = ANY('{1, 2}') AND y = 66". However,
improved performance isn't guaranteed. Much depends on physical index
characteristics.
B-Tree preprocessing is optimistic about skipping working out: it
applies static, generic rules when determining where to generate skip
arrays, which assumes that the runtime overhead of maintaining skip
arrays will pay for itself -- or lead to only a modest performance loss.
As things stand, these assumptions are much too optimistic: skip array
maintenance will lead to unacceptable regressions with unsympathetic
queries (queries whose scan can't skip over many irrelevant leaf pages).
An upcoming commit will address the problems in this area by enhancing
_bt_readpage's approach to saving cycles on scan key evaluation, making
it work in a way that directly considers the needs of = array keys
(particularly = skip array keys).
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiro Ikeda <masahiro.ikeda@nttdata.com>
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Reviewed-By: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Reviewed-By: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzmn1YsLzOGgjAQZdn1STSG_y8qP__vggTaPAYXJP+G4bw@mail.gmail.com
While prewarming blocks from a dump file, autoprewarm_database_main()
mistakenly ignored tablespace when detecting the beginning of the next
relation to prewarm. Because RelFileNumbers are only unique within a
tablespace, autoprewarm could miss prewarming blocks from a
relation with the same RelFileNumber in a different tablespace.
Though this situation is likely rare in practice, it's best to make the
code correct. Do so by explicitly checking for the RelFileNumber when
detecting a new relation.
Reported-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/97c36982-603b-494a-95f4-aaf2a12ac27e%40iki.fi
This commit implements the automatic conversion of 'x IN (VALUES ...)' into
ScalarArrayOpExpr. That simplifies the query tree, eliminating the appearance
of an unnecessary join.
Since VALUES describes a relational table, and the value of such a list is
a table row, the optimizer will likely face an underestimation problem due to
the inability to estimate cardinality through MCV statistics. The cardinality
evaluation mechanism can work with the array inclusion check operation.
If the array is small enough (< 100 elements), it will perform a statistical
evaluation element by element.
We perform the transformation in the convert_ANY_sublink_to_join() if VALUES
RTE is proper and the transformation is convertible. The conversion is only
possible for operations on scalar values, not rows. Also, we currently
support the transformation only when it ends up with a constant array.
Otherwise, the evaluation of non-hashed SAOP might be slower than the
corresponding Hash Join with VALUES.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0184212d-1248-4f1f-a42d-f5cb1c1976d2%40tantorlabs.com
Author: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ivan Kush <ivan.kush@tantorlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
This commit extracts the code to generate ScalarArrayOpExpr on top of the list
of expressions from match_orclause_to_indexcol() into a separate function
make_SAOP_expr(). This function was extracted to be used in optimization for
conversion of 'x IN (VALUES ...)' to 'x = ANY ...'. make_SAOP_expr() is
placed in clauses.c file as only two additional headers were needed there
compared with other places.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0184212d-1248-4f1f-a42d-f5cb1c1976d2%40tantorlabs.com
Author: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ivan Kush <ivan.kush@tantorlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Fix for commit 9ef1851685b: We have to skip indexes where sortopfamily
is NULL. This takes the place of the previous btree check. Detected
by valgrind on the buildfarm.
Commit 28d3c2ddcf introduced an assertion that if the memorized
downlink location in the insertion stack isn't valid, the parent's
LSN should've changed too. Turns out that was too strict. In
gistFindCorrectParent(), if we walk right, we update the parent's
block number and clear its memorized 'downlinkoffnum'. That triggered
the assertion on next call to gistFindCorrectParent(), if the parent
needed to be split too. Relax the assertion, so that it's OK if
downlinkOffnum is InvalidOffsetNumber.
Backpatch to v13-, all supported versions. The assertion was added in
commit 28d3c2ddcf in v12.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18396-03cac9beb2f7aac3@postgresql.org
Previously, "COPY table TO" command worked only with plain tables and
did not support materialized views, even when they were populated and
had physical storage. To copy rows from materialized views,
"COPY (query) TO" command had to be used, instead.
This commit extends "COPY table TO" to support populated materialized
views directly, improving usability and performance, as "COPY table TO"
is generally faster than "COPY (query) TO". Note that copying from
unpopulated materialized views will still result in an error.
Author: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxHVxnyRYy67hiPePNCPwVBMzhTQ6FaL9_Te5On9udG=yg@mail.gmail.com
This was previously not supported because the btree strategy numbers
were hardcoded. Now we can support this for any index that has the
required strategy mapping support and the required operators.
If an index scan used for get_actual_variable_range() requires
recheck, we now just ignore it instead of erroring out. With btree we
knew this couldn't happen, but now it might.
Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
Previously, ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES did not support large objects.
This meant that to grant privileges to users other than the owner,
permissions had to be manually assigned each time a large object
was created, which was inconvenient.
This commit extends ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES to allow defining default
access privileges for large objects. With this change, specified privileges
will automatically apply to newly created large objects, making privilege
management more efficient.
As a side effect, this commit introduces the new keyword OBJECTS
since it's used in the syntax of ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES.
Original patch by Haruka Takatsuka, with some fixes and tests by Yugo Nagata,
and rebased by Laurenz Albe.
Author: Takatsuka Haruka <harukat@sraoss.co.jp>
Co-authored-by: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Co-authored-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Masao Fujii <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240424115242.236b499b2bed5b7a27f7a418@sraoss.co.jp
This gets rid of the bespoken ProcessWalRcvInterrupts() function,
which lets walreceiver terminate at any CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call.
And it's less code anyway.
We can now use the standard libpqsrv_connect_params() libpq wrapper
from libpq-be-fe-helpers.h, removing more code. We attempted to do
that earlier already in commit 728f86fec6, but that was reverted
because it didn't call ProcessWalRcvInterrupts() and therefore didn't
react to shutdown requests. Now that ProcessWalRcvInterrupts() is
gone, it works. As stated in that commit, this also leads to
libpqwalreceiver reserving file descriptors for libpq conncetions,
which is nice.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (the earlier commit)
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Change the PathKey struct to use CompareType to record the sort
direction instead of hardcoding btree strategy numbers. The
CompareType is then converted to the index-type-specific strategy when
the plan is created.
This reduces the number of places btree strategy numbers are
hardcoded, and it's a self-contained subset of a larger effort to
allow non-btree indexes to behave like btrees.
Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
The documentation for the special value "system" for sslrootcert could
be misinterpreted to mean the default operating system CA store, which
it may be, but it's defined to be the default CA store of the SSL lib
used.
Backpatch down to v16 where support for the system value was added.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: George MacKerron <george@mackerron.co.uk>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B3CBBAA3-6EA3-4AB7-8619-4BBFAB93DDB4@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: 16
Consistently, an option name is used in the error messages where
applicable. Also, change the code to use pg_fatal() instead of a
combination of pg_log_error() and exit().
Author: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm0HxF1RH27LP7VisLzNsSJbssy8a64M5p6UduDaBq6-ag@mail.gmail.com
The regression test for logical decoding verifies whether a logical slot
is correctly dropped on a standby when its associated database is dropped.
However, the test mistakenly retrieved slot information from the primary
instead of the standby, causing incorrect behavior.
This commit fixes the issue by ensuring the test correctly checks the slot
on the standby.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1fdfd020-a509-403c-bd8f-a04664aba148@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 13
The regression tests for logical decoding verify whether a logical slot
exists or has been dropped. Previously, these tests attempted to
retrieve "slot_name" from the result of slot(), but since "slot_name" was
not included in the result, slot()->{'slot_name'} always returned undef,
leading to incorrect behavior.
This commit fixes the issue by checking the "plugin" field in the result
of slot() instead, ensuring the tests properly verify slot existence.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSCPR01MB149667EC4E738769CA80B7EA5F5AE2@OSCPR01MB14966.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Derived clauses are stored in ec_derives, a List of RestrictInfos.
These clauses are later looked up by matching the left and right
EquivalenceMembers along with the clause's parent EC.
This linear search becomes expensive in queries with many joins or
partitions, where ec_derives may contain thousands of entries. In
particular, create_join_clause() can spend significant time scanning
this list.
To improve performance, introduce a hash table (ec_derives_hash) that
is built when the list reaches 32 entries -- the same threshold used
for join_rel_hash. The original list is retained alongside the hash
table to support EC merging and serialization
(_outEquivalenceClass()).
Each clause is stored in the hash table using a canonicalized key: the
EquivalenceMember with the lower memory address is placed in the key
before the one with the higher memory address. This avoids storing or
searching for both permutations of the same clause. For clauses
involving a constant EM, the key places NULL in the first slot and the
non-constant EM in the second.
The hash table is initialized using list_length(ec_derives_list) as
the size hint. simplehash internally adjusts this to the next power of
two after dividing by the fillfactor, so this typically results in at
least 64 buckets near the threshold -- avoiding immediate resizing
while adapting to the actual number of entries.
The lookup logic for derived clauses is now centralized in
ec_search_derived_clause_for_ems(), which consults the hash table when
available and falls back to the list otherwise.
The new ec_clear_derived_clauses() always frees ec_derives_list, even
though some of the original code paths that cleared the old
ec_derives field did not. This ensures consistent cleanup and avoids
leaking memory when large lists are discarded.
An assertion originally placed in find_derived_clause_for_ec_member()
is moved into ec_search_derived_clause_for_ems() so that it is
enforced consistently, regardless of whether the hash table or list is
used for lookup.
This design incorporates suggestions by David Rowley, who proposed
both the key canonicalization and the initial sizing approach to
balance memory usage and CPU efficiency.
Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Tested-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5vZiQtWU6moszLP5iZ8gLX_ZAUbgEX0DxGLx9PGWCtqUg@mail.gmail.com
find_derived_clause_for_ec_member() searches for a previously-derived
clause that equates a non-constant EquivalenceMember to a constant.
It is only called for EquivalenceClasses with ec_has_const set, and
with a non-constant member the EquivalenceMember to search for.
The matched clause is expected to have the non-constant member on the
left-hand side and the constant EquivalenceMember on the right.
Assert that the RHS is indeed a constant, to catch violations of this
structure and enforce assumptions made by
generate_base_implied_equalities_const().
Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5scMxyFRqOFE6ODmBiW2rnVBEmeEcA-p4W_CyuEikURdA@mail.gmail.com
Previously bitmap heap scan was not AIO batchmode safe because of the
visibility map reads potentially done for the "skip fetch" optimization
(which skipped fetching tuples from the heap if the pages were all
visible and none of the columns were used in the query).
The skip fetch optimization implementation was found to have bugs and
was removed in 459e7bf8e2, so we can safely enable batchmode for
bitmap heap scans.
Several read stream users asserted that the read stream was exhausted
after looping on that very condition. It was pointed out in an a
review of an as-of-yet uncommitted read stream user [1] that this was
confusing and could lead the reader to think there was a possibility of
some kind of race condition. Remove these asserts.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/F9ACE8D0-B807-4A17-B6BD-87EF0717983D%40yesql.se
As coded, fmgr_sql() would get an assertion failure for a SQL function
that has an empty body and is declared to return some type other than
VOID. Typically you'd never get that far because fmgr_sql_validator()
would reject such a definition (I suspect that's how come I managed to
miss the bug). But if check_function_bodies is off or the function is
polymorphic, the validation check wouldn't get made.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0fde377a-3870-4d18-946a-ce008ee5bb88@gmail.com
The connect_timeout=1 setting for the --hang-forever test was left in
place and used by later tests, causing unexpected timeouts on slower
buildfarm animals. Remove it when no longer needed.
Per buildfarm member skink, reported by Andres on Discord.
Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
register_socket() missed a variable declaration if neither
HAVE_SYS_EPOLL_H nor HAVE_SYS_EVENT_H was defined.
While we're fixing that, adjust the tests to check pg_config.h for one
of the multiplexer implementations, rather than assuming that Windows is
the only platform without support. (Christoph reported this on
hurd-amd64, an experimental Debian.)
Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z-sPFl27Y0ZC-VBl%40msg.df7cb.de
Previously, invalidated logical and physical replication slots could
be copied using the pg_copy_logical_replication_slot and
pg_copy_physical_replication_slot functions. Replication slots that
were invalidated for reasons other than WAL removal retained their
restart_lsn. This meant that a new slot copied from an invalidated
slot could have a restart_lsn pointing to a WAL segment that might
have already been removed.
This commit restricts the copying of invalidated replication slots.
Backpatch to v16, where slots could retain their restart_lsn when
invalidated for reasons other than WAL removal.
For v15 and earlier, this check is not required since slots can only
be invalidated due to WAL removal, and existing checks already handle
this issue.
Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhcyEU65aH0VYnLiu%3DOhNNxhnhNhwcXBeT-jvRe1OiJTo_Ayg%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 16
This adds a new connection parameter which instructs libpq to
write out keymaterial clientside into a file in order to make
connection debugging with Wireshark and similar tools possible.
The file format used is the standardized NSS format.
Author: Abhishek Chanda <abhishek.becs@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKiP-K85C8uQbzXKWf5wHQPkuygGUGcufke713iHmYWOe9q2dA@mail.gmail.com
This enables sortsupport in the btree_gist extension for faster builds
of gist indexes.
Sorted gist index build strategy is the new default now. Regression
tests are unchanged (except for one small change in the 'enum' test to
add coverage for enum values added later) and are using the sorted
build strategy instead.
One version of this was committed a long time ago already, in commit
9f984ba6d2, but it was quickly reverted because of buildfarm
failures. The failures were presumably caused by some small bugs, but
we never got around to debug and commit it again. This patch was
written from scratch, implementing the same idea, with some fragments
and ideas from the original patch.
Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Author: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/64d324ce2a6d535d3f0f3baeeea7b25beff82ce4.camel@oopsware.de
A few of these were copy-pasted wrong, like the comment "Bytea ops" in
btree_numeric.c. Instead of fixing the incorrect ones, replace them
all with generic comment "GiST support functions".
Also tidy up the inconsistent newlines between various functions while
we're at it.
The check for non-inheritable constraints is performed later, and the
same comment is included at that point.
While we're here, remove one extraneous blank line.
Author: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxETi6x86S8EkH8mRfOcm2AenoE9t1pyCFVMpU34gVhF3w@mail.gmail.com
The addition of SpecialCasing.txt by commit 286a365b9c was not added
to the make target dependencies, so the invoked script would fail
because the required file wasn't downloaded first. (The meson version
appears to work correctly.)
The issue is that the transactions prepared before two-phase decoding is
enabled can fail to replicate to the subscriber after being committed on a
promoted standby following a failover. This is because the two_phase_at
field of a slot, which tracks the LSN from which two-phase decoding
starts, is not synchronized to standby servers. Without two_phase_at, the
logical decoding might incorrectly identify prepared transaction as
already replicated to the subscriber after promotion of standby server,
causing them to be skipped.
To address the issue on HEAD, the two_phase_at field of the slot is
exposed by the pg_replication_slots view and allows the slot
synchronization to copy this value to the corresponding synced slot on the
standby server.
This bug is likely to occur if the user toggles the two_phase option to
true after initial slot creation. Given that altering the two_phase option
of a replication slot is not allowed in PostgreSQL 17, this bug is less
likely to occur. We can't change the view/function definition in
backbranch so we can't push the same fix but we are brainstorming an
appropriate solution for PG17.
Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB5724CC7C288535BBCEEE65DA94A72@TYAPR01MB5724.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
compareentry() is declared to work on WordEntryIN structs, but
tsvectorrecv() is using it in two places to work on WordEntry
structs. This is almost okay, since WordEntry is the first
field of WordEntryIN. But on machines with 8-byte pointers,
WordEntryIN will have a larger alignment spec than WordEntry,
and it's at least theoretically possible that the compiler
could generate code that depends on the larger alignment.
Given the lack of field reports, this may be just a hypothetical bug
that upsets nothing except sanitizer tools. Or it may be real on
certain hardware but nobody's tried to use tsvectorrecv() on such
hardware. In any case we should fix it, and the fix is trivial:
just change compareentry() so that it works on WordEntry without any
mention of WordEntryIN. We can also get rid of the quite-useless
intermediate function WordEntryCMP.
Bug: #18875
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18875-07a29c49c825a608@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
In the previous commit HeapBitmapScan's skip_fetch optimization was removed,
due to being broken in not easily fixable ways. Add a test that verifies we
don't re-introduce this bug if somebody tries to re-add the feature.
Only add the test to master for now, it's possible it's not entirely
stable. That seems sufficient, as we're not going to re-introduce the feature
on the backbranches. I did verify that the test passes on all branches. If the
test turns out to be unproblematic, we can backpatch it later, should we feel
a need to do so.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Wg3gXXZTr6_rwC+s4-o2ZVFB5F985uUSgJTsECx6AmGcQ@mail.gmail.com
The optimization does not take the removal of TIDs by a concurrent vacuum into
account. The concurrent vacuum can remove dead TIDs and make pages ALL_VISIBLE
while those dead TIDs are referenced in the bitmap. This can lead to a
skip_fetch scan returning too many tuples.
It likely would be possible to implement this optimization safely, but we
don't have the necessary infrastructure in place. Nor is it clear that it's
worth building that infrastructure, given how limited the skip_fetch
optimization is.
In the backbranches we just disable the optimization by always passing
need_tuples=true to table_beginscan_bm(). We can't perform API/ABI changes in
the backbranches and we want to make the change as minimal as possible.
Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Reported-By: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@garret.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Wg3gXXZTr6_rwC+s4-o2ZVFB5F985uUSgJTsECx6AmGcQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
In the historical implementation of SQL functions (if they don't get
inlined), we built plans for all the contained queries at first call
within an outer query, and then re-used those plans for the duration
of the outer query, and then forgot everything. This was not ideal,
not least because the plans could not be customized to specific values
of the function's parameters. Our plancache infrastructure seems
mature enough to be used here. That will solve both the problem with
not being able to build custom plans and the problem with not being
able to share work across successive outer queries.
Aside from those performance concerns, this change fixes a
longstanding bugaboo with SQL functions: you could not write DDL that
would affect later statements in the same function. That's mostly
still true with new-style SQL functions, since the results of parse
analysis are baked into the stored query trees (and protected by
dependency records). But for old-style SQL functions, it will now
work much as it does with PL/pgSQL functions, because we delay parse
analysis and planning of each query until we're ready to run it.
Some edge cases that require replanning are now handled better too;
see for example the new rowsecurity test, where we now detect an RLS
context change that was previously missed.
One other edge-case change that might be worthy of a release note
is that we now insist that a SQL function's result be generated
by the physically-last query within it. Previously, if the last
original query was deleted by a DO INSTEAD NOTHING rule, we'd be
willing to take the result from the preceding query instead.
This behavior was undocumented except in source-code comments,
and it seems hard to believe that anyone's relying on it.
Along the way to this feature, we needed a few infrastructure changes:
* The plancache can now take either a raw parse tree or an
analyzed-but-not-rewritten Query as the starting point for a
CachedPlanSource. If given a Query, it is caller's responsibility
that nothing will happen to invalidate that form of the query.
We use this for new-style SQL functions, where what's in pg_proc is
serialized Query(s) and we trust the dependency mechanism to disallow
DDL that would break those.
* The plancache now offers a way to invoke a post-rewrite callback
to examine/modify the rewritten parse tree when it is rebuilding
the parse trees after a cache invalidation. We need this because
SQL functions sometimes adjust the parse tree to make its output
exactly match the declared result type; if the plan gets rebuilt,
that has to be re-done.
* There is a new backend module utils/cache/funccache.c that
abstracts the idea of caching data about a specific function
usage (a particular function and set of input data types).
The code in it is moved almost verbatim from PL/pgSQL, which
has done that for a long time. We use that logic now for
SQL-language functions too, and maybe other PLs will have use
for it in the future.
Author: Alexander Pyhalov <a.pyhalov@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8216639.NyiUUSuA9g@aivenlaptop
For GiST, having a sortsupport function allows building the index
using the "sorted build" method, which is much faster.
For b-tree, the sortsupport routine doesn't give any new
functionality, but speeds up sorting a tiny bit. The difference is not
very significant, about 2% in cursory testing on my laptop, because
the range type comparison function has quite a lot of overhead from
detoasting. In any case, since we have the function for GiST anyway,
we might as well register it for the btree opfamily too.
Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/64d324ce2a6d535d3f0f3baeeea7b25beff82ce4.camel@oopsware.de
Peter Geoghegan