64 Commits (97be02ad0015502fac0b788bc0a4739a398f41d5)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Tom Lane	97be02ad00	Fix NULLIF()'s handling of read-write expanded objects. ... If passed a read-write expanded object pointer, the EEOP_NULLIF code would hand that same pointer to the equality function and then (unless equality was reported) also return the same pointer as its value. This is no good, because a function that receives a read-write expanded object pointer is fully entitled to scribble on or even delete the object, thus corrupting the NULLIF output. (This problem is likely unobservable with the equality functions provided in core Postgres, but it's easy to demonstrate with one coded in plpgsql.) To fix, make sure the pointer passed to the equality function is read-only. We can still return the original read-write pointer as the NULLIF result, allowing optimization of later operations. Per bug #18722 from Alexander Lakhin. This has been wrong since we invented expanded objects, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18722-fd9e645448cc78b4@postgresql.org	1 year ago
Amit Langote	f95c5090d9	SQL/JSON: Fix casting for integer EXISTS columns in JSON_TABLE ... The current method of coercing the boolean result value of JsonPathExists() to the target type specified for an EXISTS column, which is to call the type's input function via json_populate_type(), leads to an error when the target type is integer, because the integer input function doesn't recognize boolean literal values as valid. Instead use the boolean-to-integer cast function for coercion in that case so that using integer or domains thereof as type for EXISTS columns works. Note that coercion for ON ERROR values TRUE and FALSE already works like that because the parser creates a cast expression including the cast function, but the coercion of the actual result value is not handled by the parser. Tests by Jian He. Reported-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Author: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxEo4sUjKCYtda0_qt9tazqqKPmF1cqhW9KBOUeJFqQd2g@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 17	1 year ago
Amit Langote	716bd12d22	SQL/JSON: Always coerce JsonExpr result at runtime ... Instead of looking up casts at parse time for converting the result of JsonPath* query functions to the specified or the default RETURNING type, always perform the conversion at runtime using either the target type's input function or the function json_populate_type(). There are two motivations for this change: 1. json_populate_type() coerces to types with typmod such that any string values that exceed length limit cause an error instead of silent truncation, which is necessary to be standard-conforming. 2. It was possible to end up with a cast expression that doesn't support soft handling of errors causing bugs in the of handling ON ERROR clause. JsonExpr.coercion_expr which would store the cast expression is no longer necessary, so remove. Bump catversion because stored rules change because of the above removal. Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202405271326.5a5rprki64aw%40alvherre.pgsql	2 years ago
Amit Langote	6185c9737c	Add SQL/JSON query functions ... This introduces the following SQL/JSON functions for querying JSON data using jsonpath expressions: JSON_EXISTS(), which can be used to apply a jsonpath expression to a JSON value to check if it yields any values. JSON_QUERY(), which can be used to to apply a jsonpath expression to a JSON value to get a JSON object, an array, or a string. There are various options to control whether multi-value result uses array wrappers and whether the singleton scalar strings are quoted or not. JSON_VALUE(), which can be used to apply a jsonpath expression to a JSON value to return a single scalar value, producing an error if it multiple values are matched. Both JSON_VALUE() and JSON_QUERY() functions have options for handling EMPTY and ERROR conditions, which can be used to specify the behavior when no values are matched and when an error occurs during jsonpath evaluation, respectively. Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Author: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewers have included (in no particular order): Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera, Jian He, Anton A. Melnikov, Nikita Malakhov, Peter Eisentraut, Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHROpf9e644D8BRqYvaAPmgBZVup-xKMDPk-nd4EpgzHw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com	2 years ago
Dean Rasheed	c649fa24a4	Add RETURNING support to MERGE. ... This allows a RETURNING clause to be appended to a MERGE query, to return values based on each row inserted, updated, or deleted. As with plain INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE commands, the returned values are based on the new contents of the target table for INSERT and UPDATE actions, and on its old contents for DELETE actions. Values from the source relation may also be returned. As with INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, the output of MERGE ... RETURNING may be used as the source relation for other operations such as WITH queries and COPY commands. Additionally, a special function merge_action() is provided, which returns 'INSERT', 'UPDATE', or 'DELETE', depending on the action executed for each row. The merge_action() function can be used anywhere in the RETURNING list, including in arbitrary expressions and subqueries, but it is an error to use it anywhere outside of a MERGE query's RETURNING list. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Isaac Morland, Vik Fearing, Alvaro Herrera, Gurjeet Singh, Jian He, Jeff Davis, Merlin Moncure, Peter Eisentraut, and Wolfgang Walther. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWePEGQR5LBn-vD6SfeLZafzEm2Qy_L_Oky2=qw2w3Pzg@mail.gmail.com	2 years ago
Amit Langote	aaaf9449ec	Add soft error handling to some expression nodes ... This adjusts the code for CoerceViaIO and CoerceToDomain expression nodes to handle errors softly. For CoerceViaIo, this adds a new ExprEvalStep opcode EEOP_IOCOERCE_SAFE, which is implemented in the new accompanying function ExecEvalCoerceViaIOSafe(). The only difference from EEOP_IOCOERCE's inline implementation is that the input function receives an ErrorSaveContext via the function's FunctionCallInfo.context, which it can use to handle errors softly. For CoerceToDomain, this simply entails replacing the ereport() in ExecEvalConstraintNotNull() and ExecEvalConstraintCheck() by errsave() passing it the ErrorSaveContext passed in the expression's ExprEvalStep. In both cases, the ErrorSaveContext to be used is passed by setting ExprState.escontext to point to it before calling ExecInitExprRec() on the expression tree whose errors are to be handled softly. Note that there's no functional change as of this commit as no call site of ExecInitExprRec() has been changed. This is intended for implementing new SQL/JSON expression nodes in future commits. Extracted from a much larger patch to add SQL/JSON query functions. Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera, Jian He, Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHROpf9e644D8BRqYvaAPmgBZVup-xKMDPk-nd4EpgzHw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com	2 years ago
Bruce Momjian	29275b1d17	Update copyright for 2024 ... Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 12	2 years ago
Amit Langote	c8ec5e0543	Revert "Add soft error handling to some expression nodes" ... This reverts commit 7fbc75b26e. Looks like the LLVM additions may not be totally correct.	2 years ago
Amit Langote	7fbc75b26e	Add soft error handling to some expression nodes ... This adjusts the expression evaluation code for CoerceViaIO and CoerceToDomain to handle errors softly if needed. For CoerceViaIo, this means using InputFunctionCallSafe(), which provides the option to handle errors softly, instead of calling the type input function directly. For CoerceToDomain, this simply entails replacing the ereport() in ExecEvalConstraintCheck() by errsave(). In both cases, the ErrorSaveContext to be used when evaluating the expression is stored by ExecInitExprRec() in the expression's struct in the expression's ExprEvalStep. The ErrorSaveContext is passed by setting ExprState.escontext to point to it when calling ExecInitExprRec() on the expression whose errors are to be handled softly. Note that no call site of ExecInitExprRec() has been changed in this commit, so there's no functional change. This is intended for implementing new SQL/JSON expression nodes in future commits that will use to it suppress errors that may occur during type coercions. Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com	2 years ago
Michael Paquier	d8c3106bb6	Add back SQLValueFunction for SQL keywords ... This is equivalent to a revert of f193883 and fb32748, with the addition that the declaration of the SQLValueFunction node needs to gain a couple of node_attr for query jumbling. The performance impact of removing the function call inlining is proving to be too huge for some workloads where these are used. A worst-case test case of involving only simple SELECT queries with a SQL keyword is proving to lead to a reduction of 10% in TPS via pgbench and prepared queries on a high-end machine. None of the tests I ran back for this set of changes saw such a huge gap, but Alexander Lakhin and Andres Freund have found that this can be noticeable. Keeping the older performance would mean to do more inlining in the executor when using COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX for a function expression, similarly to what SQLValueFunction does. This requires more redesign work and there is little time until 16beta1 is released, so for now reverting the change is the best way forward, bringing back the previous performance. Bump catalog version. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b32bed1b-0746-9b20-1472-4bdc9ca66d52@gmail.com	3 years ago
Tom Lane	fce3b26e97	Rename ExecAggTransReparent, and improve its documentation. ... The name of this function suggests that it ought to reparent R/W expanded objects to be children of the persistent aggcontext, instead of copying them. In fact it does no such thing, and if you try to make it do so you will see multiple regression failures. Rename it to the less-misleading ExecAggCopyTransValue, and add commentary about why that attractive-sounding optimization won't work. Also adjust comments at call sites, some of which were describing logic that has since been moved into ExecAggCopyTransValue. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3004282.1681930251@sss.pgh.pa.us	3 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	6ee30209a6	SQL/JSON: support the IS JSON predicate ... This patch introduces the SQL standard IS JSON predicate. It operates on text and bytea values representing JSON, as well as on the json and jsonb types. Each test has IS and IS NOT variants and supports a WITH UNIQUE KEYS flag. The tests are: IS JSON [VALUE] IS JSON ARRAY IS JSON OBJECT IS JSON SCALAR These should be self-explanatory. The WITH UNIQUE KEYS flag makes these return false when duplicate keys exist in any object within the value, not necessarily directly contained in the outermost object. Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF4Au4w2x-5LTnN_bxky-mq4=WOqsGsxSpENCzHRAzSnEd8+WQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org	3 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	9b058f6b0d	Move ExecEvalJsonConstructor new function to a more natural place ... Commit 7081ac46ac put it at the end of the file, but that doesn't look very nice.	3 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	7081ac46ac	SQL/JSON: add standard JSON constructor functions ... This commit introduces the SQL/JSON standard-conforming constructors for JSON types: JSON_ARRAY() JSON_ARRAYAGG() JSON_OBJECT() JSON_OBJECTAGG() Most of the functionality was already present in PostgreSQL-specific functions, but these include some new functionality such as the ability to skip or include NULL values, and to allow duplicate keys or throw error when they are found, as well as the standard specified syntax to specify output type and format. Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF4Au4w2x-5LTnN_bxky-mq4=WOqsGsxSpENCzHRAzSnEd8+WQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org	3 years ago
Andres Freund	78be04e4c6	Add static assertion ensuring sizeof(ExprEvalStep) <= 64 bytes ... This was previously only documented in a comment. Given the size of the struct, it's not hard to miss that comment. As evidenced by the commits leading up to fe3caa1439, 67b26703b4. It's possible, but not likely, that we might have to weaken these assertions on a less commonly used architecture. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/295606.1677101684@sss.pgh.pa.us	3 years ago
Bruce Momjian	c8e1ba736b	Update copyright for 2023 ... Backpatch-through: 11	3 years ago
Michael Paquier	f193883fc9	Replace SQLValueFunction by COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX ... This switch impacts 9 patterns related to a SQL-mandated special syntax for function calls: - LOCALTIME [ ( typmod ) ] - LOCALTIMESTAMP [ ( typmod ) ] - CURRENT_TIME [ ( typmod ) ] - CURRENT_TIMESTAMP [ ( typmod ) ] - CURRENT_DATE Five new entries are added to pg_proc to compensate the removal of SQLValueFunction to provide backward-compatibility and making this change transparent for the end-user (for example for the attribute generated when a keyword is specified in a SELECT or in a FROM clause without an alias, or when specifying something else than an Iconst to the parser). The parser included a set of checks coming from the files in charge of holding the C functions used for the SQLValueFunction calls (as of transformSQLValueFunction()), which are now moved within each function's execution path, so this reduces the dependencies between the execution and the parsing steps. As of this change, all the SQL keywords use the same paths for their work, relying only on COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX. Like fb32748, no performance difference has been noticed, while the perf profiles get reduced with ExecEvalSQLValueFunction() gone. Bump catalog version. Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker, Ted Yu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YzaG3MoryCguUOym@paquier.xyz	3 years ago
Andrew Dunstan	2f2b18bd3f	Revert SQL/JSON features ... The reverts the following and makes some associated cleanups: commit f79b803dc: Common SQL/JSON clauses commit f4fb45d15: SQL/JSON constructors commit 5f0adec25: Make STRING an unreserved_keyword. commit 33a377608: IS JSON predicate commit 1a36bc9db: SQL/JSON query functions commit 606948b05: SQL JSON functions commit 49082c2cc: RETURNING clause for JSON() and JSON_SCALAR() commit 4e34747c8: JSON_TABLE commit fadb48b00: PLAN clauses for JSON_TABLE commit 2ef6f11b0: Reduce running time of jsonb_sqljson test commit 14d3f24fa: Further improve jsonb_sqljson parallel test commit a6baa4bad: Documentation for SQL/JSON features commit b46bcf7a4: Improve readability of SQL/JSON documentation. commit 112fdb352: Fix finalization for json_objectagg and friends commit fcdb35c32: Fix transformJsonBehavior commit 4cd8717af: Improve a couple of sql/json error messages commit f7a605f63: Small cleanups in SQL/JSON code commit 9c3d25e17: Fix JSON_OBJECTAGG uniquefying bug commit a79153b7a: Claim SQL standard compliance for SQL/JSON features commit a1e7616d6: Rework SQL/JSON documentation commit 8d9f9634e: Fix errors in copyfuncs/equalfuncs support for JSON node types. commit 3c633f32b: Only allow returning string types or bytea from json_serialize commit 67b26703b: expression eval: Fix EEOP_JSON_CONSTRUCTOR and EEOP_JSONEXPR size. The release notes are also adjusted. Backpatch to release 15. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/40d2c882-bcac-19a9-754d-4299e1d87ac7@postgresql.org	3 years ago
David Rowley	9fc1776dda	Remove unused fields from ExprEvalStep ... These were added recently by 1349d2790. Reported-by: Zhihong Yu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNJ-vTi+YDuAWKp4Z_Dv=mrz=aq81qTg0D7wzc8y7rS_+i_cw@mail.gmail.com	3 years ago
David Rowley	1349d2790b	Improve performance of ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates ... ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggreagtes have, since implemented in Postgres, been executed by always performing a sort in nodeAgg.c to sort the tuples in the current group into the correct order before calling the transition function on the sorted tuples. This was not great as often there might be an index that could have provided pre-sorted input and allowed the transition functions to be called as the rows come in, rather than having to store them in a tuplestore in order to sort them once all the tuples for the group have arrived. Here we change the planner so it requests a path with a sort order which supports the most amount of ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregate functions and add new code to the executor to allow it to support the processing of ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates where the tuples are already sorted in the correct order. Since there can be many ORDER BY / DISTINCT aggregates in any given query level, it's very possible that we can't find an order that suits all of these aggregates. The sort order that the planner chooses is simply the one that suits the most aggregate functions. We take the most strictly sorted variation of each order and see how many aggregate functions can use that, then we try again with the order of the remaining aggregates to see if another order would suit more aggregate functions. For example: SELECT agg(a ORDER BY a),agg2(a ORDER BY a,b) ... would request the sort order to be {a, b} because {a} is a subset of the sort order of {a,b}, but; SELECT agg(a ORDER BY a),agg2(a ORDER BY c) ... would just pick a plan ordered by {a} (we give precedence to aggregates which are earlier in the targetlist). SELECT agg(a ORDER BY a),agg2(a ORDER BY b),agg3(a ORDER BY b) ... would choose to order by {b} since two aggregates suit that vs just one that requires input ordered by {a}. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau, James Coleman, Ranier Vilela, Richard Guo, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpHzfo92%3DR4W0%2BxVua3BUYCKMckWAmo-2t_KiXN-wYH%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com	3 years ago
David Rowley	fe3caa1439	Remove size increase in ExprEvalStep caused by hashed saops ... 50e17ad28 increased the size of ExprEvalStep from 64 bytes up to 88 bytes. Lots of effort was spent during the development of the current expression evaluation code to make an instance of this struct as small as possible. Making this struct larger than needed reduces CPU cache efficiency during expression evaluation which causes noticeable slowdowns during query execution. In order to reduce the size of the struct, here we remove the fn_addr field. The values from this field can be obtained via fcinfo, just with some extra pointer dereferencing. The extra indirection does not seem to cause any noticeable slowdowns. Various other fields have been moved into the ScalarArrayOpExprHashTable struct. These fields are only used when the ScalarArrayOpExprHashTable pointer has already been dereferenced, so no additional pointer dereferences occur for these. Here we also make hash_fcinfo_data the last field in ScalarArrayOpExprHashTable so that we can avoid a further pointer dereference to get the FunctionCallInfoBaseData. This also saves a call to palloc(). 50e17ad28 was added in 14, but it's too late to adjust the size of the ExprEvalStep in that version, so here we just backpatch to 15, which is currently in beta. Author: Andres Freund, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch-through: 15	4 years ago
Andres Freund	67b26703b4	expression eval: Fix EEOP_JSON_CONSTRUCTOR and EEOP_JSONEXPR size. ... The new expression step types increased the size of ExprEvalStep by ~4 for all types of expression steps, slowing down expression evaluation noticeably. Move them out of line. There's other issues with these expression steps, but addressing them is largely independent of this aspect. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-By: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 15-	4 years ago
Tom Lane	23e7b38bfe	Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. ... Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files. I manually fixed a couple of comments that pgindent uglified.	4 years ago
Andrew Dunstan	4e34747c88	JSON_TABLE ... This feature allows jsonb data to be treated as a table and thus used in a FROM clause like other tabular data. Data can be selected from the jsonb using jsonpath expressions, and hoisted out of nested structures in the jsonb to form multiple rows, more or less like an outer join. Nikita Glukhov Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zhihong Yu (whose name I previously misspelled), Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7e2cb85d-24cf-4abb-30a5-1a33715959bd@postgrespro.ru	4 years ago
Andrew Dunstan	606948b058	SQL JSON functions ... This Patch introduces three SQL standard JSON functions: JSON() (incorrectly mentioned in my commit message for f4fb45d15c) JSON_SCALAR() JSON_SERIALIZE() JSON() produces json values from text, bytea, json or jsonb values, and has facilitites for handling duplicate keys. JSON_SCALAR() produces a json value from any scalar sql value, including json and jsonb. JSON_SERIALIZE() produces text or bytea from input which containis or represents json or jsonb; For the most part these functions don't add any significant new capabilities, but they will be of use to users wanting standard compliant JSON handling. Nikita Glukhov Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru	4 years ago
Andrew Dunstan	1a36bc9dba	SQL/JSON query functions ... This introduces the SQL/JSON functions for querying JSON data using jsonpath expressions. The functions are: JSON_EXISTS() JSON_QUERY() JSON_VALUE() All of these functions only operate on jsonb. The workaround for now is to cast the argument to jsonb. JSON_EXISTS() tests if the jsonpath expression applied to the jsonb value yields any values. JSON_VALUE() must return a single value, and an error occurs if it tries to return multiple values. JSON_QUERY() must return a json object or array, and there are various WRAPPER options for handling scalar or multi-value results. Both these functions have options for handling EMPTY and ERROR conditions. Nikita Glukhov Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru	4 years ago
Andrew Dunstan	33a377608f	IS JSON predicate ... This patch intrdocuces the SQL standard IS JSON predicate. It operates on text and bytea values representing JSON as well as on the json and jsonb types. Each test has an IS and IS NOT variant. The tests are: IS JSON [VALUE] IS JSON ARRAY IS JSON OBJECT IS JSON SCALAR IS JSON WITH | WITHOUT UNIQUE KEYS These are mostly self-explanatory, but note that IS JSON WITHOUT UNIQUE KEYS is true whenever IS JSON is true, and IS JSON WITH UNIQUE KEYS is true whenever IS JSON is true except it IS JSON OBJECT is true and there are duplicate keys (which is never the case when applied to jsonb values). Nikita Glukhov Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru	4 years ago
Andrew Dunstan	f4fb45d15c	SQL/JSON constructors ... This patch introduces the SQL/JSON standard constructors for JSON: JSON() JSON_ARRAY() JSON_ARRAYAGG() JSON_OBJECT() JSON_OBJECTAGG() For the most part these functions provide facilities that mimic existing json/jsonb functions. However, they also offer some useful additional functionality. In addition to text input, the JSON() function accepts bytea input, which it will decode and constuct a json value from. The other functions provide useful options for handling duplicate keys and null values. This series of patches will be followed by a consolidated documentation patch. Nikita Glukhov Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru	4 years ago
Bruce Momjian	27b77ecf9f	Update copyright for 2022 ... Backpatch-through: 10	4 years ago
David Rowley	29f45e299e	Use a hash table to speed up NOT IN(values) ... Similar to 50e17ad28, which allowed hash tables to be used for IN clauses with a set of constants, here we add the same feature for NOT IN clauses. NOT IN evaluates the same as: WHERE a <> v1 AND a <> v2 AND a <> v3. Obviously, if we're using a hash table we must be exactly equivalent to that and return the same result taking into account that either side of the condition could contain a NULL. This requires a little bit of special handling to make work with the hash table version. When processing NOT IN, the ScalarArrayOpExpr's operator will be the <> operator. To be able to build and lookup a hash table we must use the <>'s negator operator. The planner checks if that exists and is hashable and sets the relevant fields in ScalarArrayOpExpr to instruct the executor to use hashing. Author: David Rowley, James Coleman Reviewed-by: James Coleman, Zhihong Yu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvoF1mum_FRk6D621edcB6KSHBi2+GAgWmioj5AhOu2vwQ@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Tom Lane	c2db458c10	Redesign the caching done by get_cached_rowtype(). ... Previously, get_cached_rowtype() cached a pointer to a reference-counted tuple descriptor from the typcache, relying on the ExprContextCallback mechanism to release the tupdesc refcount when the expression tree using the tupdesc was destroyed. This worked fine when it was designed, but the introduction of within-DO-block COMMITs broke it. The refcount is logged in a transaction-lifespan resource owner, but plpgsql won't destroy simple expressions made within the DO block (before its first commit) until the DO block is exited. That results in a warning about a leaked tupdesc refcount when the COMMIT destroys the original resource owner, and then an error about the active resource owner not holding a matching refcount when the expression is destroyed. To fix, get rid of the need to have a shutdown callback at all, by instead caching a pointer to the relevant typcache entry. Those survive for the life of the backend, so we needn't worry about the pointer becoming stale. (For registered RECORD types, we can still cache a pointer to the tupdesc, knowing that it won't change for the life of the backend.) This mechanism has been in use in plpgsql and expandedrecord.c since commit 4b93f5799, and seems to work well. This change requires modifying the ExprEvalStep structs used by the relevant expression step types, which is slightly worrisome for back-patching. However, there seems no good reason for extensions to be familiar with the details of these particular sub-structs. Per report from Rohit Bhogate. Back-patch to v11 where within-DO-block COMMITs became a thing. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAV6ZkQRCVBh8qAY+SZiHnz+U+FqAGBBDaDTjF2yiKa2nJSLKg@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
David Rowley	50e17ad281	Speedup ScalarArrayOpExpr evaluation ... ScalarArrayOpExprs with "useOr=true" and a set of Consts on the righthand side have traditionally been evaluated by using a linear search over the array. When these arrays contain large numbers of elements then this linear search could become a significant part of execution time. Here we add a new method of evaluating ScalarArrayOpExpr expressions to allow them to be evaluated by first building a hash table containing each element, then on subsequent evaluations, we just probe that hash table to determine if there is a match. The planner is in charge of determining when this optimization is possible and it enables it by setting hashfuncid in the ScalarArrayOpExpr. The executor will only perform the hash table evaluation when the hashfuncid is set. This means that not all cases are optimized. For example CHECK constraints containing an IN clause won't go through the planner, so won't get the hashfuncid set. We could maybe do something about that at some later date. The reason we're not doing it now is from fear that we may slow down cases where the expression is evaluated only once. Those cases can be common, for example, a single row INSERT to a table with a CHECK constraint containing an IN clause. In the planner, we enable this when there are suitable hash functions for the ScalarArrayOpExpr's operator and only when there is at least MIN_ARRAY_SIZE_FOR_HASHED_SAOP elements in the array. The threshold is currently set to 9. Author: James Coleman, David Rowley Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra, Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8x62+=wn0zvNKCj55tPpg-JBHzhZFFc6ANovdqFw7-dA@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Bruce Momjian	ca3b37487b	Update copyright for 2021 ... Backpatch-through: 9.5	5 years ago
Tom Lane	c7aba7c14e	Support subscripting of arbitrary types, not only arrays. ... This patch generalizes the subscripting infrastructure so that any data type can be subscripted, if it provides a handler function to define what that means. Traditional variable-length (varlena) arrays all use array_subscript_handler(), while the existing fixed-length types that support subscripting use raw_array_subscript_handler(). It's expected that other types that want to use subscripting notation will define their own handlers. (This patch provides no such new features, though; it only lays the foundation for them.) To do this, move the parser's semantic processing of subscripts (including coercion to whatever data type is required) into a method callback supplied by the handler. On the execution side, replace the ExecEvalSubscriptingRef* layer of functions with direct calls to callback-supplied execution routines. (Thus, essentially no new run-time overhead should be caused by this patch. Indeed, there is room to remove some overhead by supplying specialized execution routines. This patch does a little bit in that line, but more could be done.) Additional work is required here and there to remove formerly hard-wired assumptions about the result type, collation, etc of a SubscriptingRef expression node; and to remove assumptions that the subscript values must be integers. One useful side-effect of this is that we now have a less squishy mechanism for identifying whether a data type is a "true" array: instead of wiring in weird rules about typlen, we can look to see if pg_type.typsubscript == F_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_HANDLER. For this to be bulletproof, we have to forbid user-defined types from using that handler directly; but there seems no good reason for them to do so. This patch also removes assumptions that the number of subscripts is limited to MAXDIM (6), or indeed has any hard-wired limit. That limit still applies to types handled by array_subscript_handler or raw_array_subscript_handler, but to discourage other dependencies on this constant, I've moved it from c.h to utils/array.h. Dmitry Dolgov, reviewed at various times by Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov, Peter Eisentraut, Pavel Stehule Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVDuGBv=M0FqBYX8DPebS3F_0KQ6OVFobGJPM507_SZ_w@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVovR+XY4mfk-7oNk-rF91gH0PebnNfuUjuuDsyHjOcVA@mail.gmail.com	5 years ago
Heikki Linnakangas	0a2bc5d61e	Move per-agg and per-trans duplicate finding to the planner. ... This has the advantage that the cost estimates for aggregates can count the number of calls to transition and final functions correctly. Bump catalog version, because views can contain Aggrefs. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b2e3536b-1dbc-8303-c97e-89cb0b4a9a48%40iki.fi	5 years ago
Tom Lane	41efb83408	Move resolution of AlternativeSubPlan choices to the planner. ... When commit bd3daddaf introduced AlternativeSubPlans, I had some ambitions towards allowing the choice of subplan to change during execution. That has not happened, or even been thought about, in the ensuing twelve years; so it seems like a failed experiment. So let's rip that out and resolve the choice of subplan at the end of planning (in setrefs.c) rather than during executor startup. This has a number of positive benefits: * Removal of a few hundred lines of executor code, since AlternativeSubPlans need no longer be supported there. * Removal of executor-startup overhead (particularly, initialization of subplans that won't be used). * Removal of incidental costs of having a larger plan tree, such as tree-scanning and copying costs in the plancache; not to mention setrefs.c's own costs of processing the discarded subplans. * EXPLAIN no longer has to print a weird (and undocumented) representation of an AlternativeSubPlan choice; it sees only the subplan actually used. This should mean less confusion for users. * Since setrefs.c knows which subexpression of a plan node it's working on at any instant, it's possible to adjust the estimated number of executions of the subplan based on that. For example, we should usually estimate more executions of a qual expression than a targetlist expression. The implementation used here is pretty simplistic, because we don't want to expend a lot of cycles on the issue; but it's better than ignoring the point entirely, as the executor had to. That last point might possibly result in shifting the choice between hashed and non-hashed EXISTS subplans in a few cases, but in general this patch isn't meant to change planner choices. Since we're doing the resolution so late, it's really impossible to change any plan choices outside the AlternativeSubPlan itself. Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1992952.1592785225@sss.pgh.pa.us	5 years ago
Jeff Davis	c954d49046	Extend ExecBuildAggTrans() to support a NULL pointer check. ... Optionally push a step to check for a NULL pointer to the pergroup state. This will be important for disk-based hash aggregation in combination with grouping sets. When memory limits are reached, a given tuple may find its per-group state for some grouping sets but not others. For the former, it advances the per-group state as normal; for the latter, it skips evaluation and the calling code will have to spill the tuple and reprocess it in a later batch. Add the NULL check as a separate expression step because in some common cases it's not needed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200221202212.ssb2qpmdgrnx52sj%40alap3.anarazel.de	6 years ago
Andres Freund	2742c45080	expression eval: Reduce number of steps for agg transition invocations. ... Do so by combining the various steps that are part of aggregate transition function invocation into one larger step. As some of the current steps are only necessary for some aggregates, have one variant of the aggregate transition step for each possible combination. To avoid further manual copies of code in the different transition step implementations, move most of the code into helper functions marked as "always inline". The benefit of this change is an increase in performance when aggregating lots of rows. This comes in part due to the reduced number of indirect jumps due to the reduced number of steps, and in part by reducing redundant setup code across steps. This mainly benefits interpreted execution, but the code generated by JIT is also improved a bit. As a nice side-effect it also ends up making the code a bit simpler. A small additional optimization is removing the need to set aggstate->curaggcontext before calling ExecAggInitGroup, choosing to instead passign curaggcontext as an argument. It was, in contrast to other aggregate related functions, only needed to fetch a memory context to copy the transition value into. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191023163849.sosqbfs5yenocez3@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/5c371df7cee903e8cd4c685f90c6c72086d3a2dc.camel@j-davis.com	6 years ago
Andres Freund	1fdb7f9789	expression eval: Don't redundantly keep track of AggState. ... It's already tracked via ExprState->parent, so we don't need to also include it in ExprEvalStep. When that code originally was written ExprState->parent didn't exist, but it since has been introduced in 6719b238e8. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191023163849.sosqbfs5yenocez3@alap3.anarazel.de	6 years ago
Bruce Momjian	7559d8ebfa	Update copyrights for 2020 ... Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4	6 years ago
Michael Paquier	8548ddc61b	Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 9 ... This addresses more issues with code comments, variable names and unreferenced variables. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7ab243e0-116d-3e44-d120-76b3df7abefd@gmail.com	6 years ago
Tom Lane	8255c7a5ee	Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. ... Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com	7 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	558d77f20e	Renaming for new subscripting mechanism ... 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	7 years ago
Andres Freund	a9c35cf85c	Change function call information to be variable length. ... Before this change FunctionCallInfoData, the struct arguments etc for V1 function calls are stored in, always had space for FUNC_MAX_ARGS/100 arguments, storing datums and their nullness in two arrays. For nearly every function call 100 arguments is far more than needed, therefore wasting memory. Arg and argnull being two separate arrays also guarantees that to access a single argument, two cachelines have to be touched. Change the layout so there's a single variable-length array with pairs of value / isnull. That drastically reduces memory consumption for most function calls (on x86-64 a two argument function now uses 64bytes, previously 936 bytes), and makes it very likely that argument value and its nullness are on the same cacheline. Arguments are stored in a new NullableDatum struct, which, due to padding, needs more memory per argument than before. But as usually far fewer arguments are stored, and individual arguments are cheaper to access, that's still a clear win. It's likely that there's other places where conversion to NullableDatum arrays would make sense, e.g. TupleTableSlots, but that's for another commit. Because the function call information is now variable-length allocations have to take the number of arguments into account. For heap allocations that can be done with SizeForFunctionCallInfoData(), for on-stack allocations there's a new LOCAL_FCINFO(name, nargs) macro that helps to allocate an appropriately sized and aligned variable. Some places with stack allocation function call information don't know the number of arguments at compile time, and currently variably sized stack allocations aren't allowed in postgres. Therefore allow for FUNC_MAX_ARGS space in these cases. They're not that common, so for now that seems acceptable. Because of the need to allocate FunctionCallInfo of the appropriate size, older extensions may need to update their code. To avoid subtle breakages, the FunctionCallInfoData struct has been renamed to FunctionCallInfoBaseData. Most code only references FunctionCallInfo, so that shouldn't cause much collateral damage. This change is also a prerequisite for more efficient expression JIT compilation (by allocating the function call information on the stack, allowing LLVM to optimize it away); previously the size of the call information caused problems inside LLVM's optimizer. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180605172952.x34m5uz6ju6enaem@alap3.anarazel.de	7 years ago
Bruce Momjian	97c39498e5	Update copyright for 2019 ... Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4	7 years ago
Andres Freund	675af5c01e	Compute information about EEOP_*_FETCHSOME at expression init time. ... Previously this information was computed when JIT compiling an expression. But the information is useful for assertions in the non-JIT case too (for assertions), therefore it makes sense to move it. This will, in a followup commit, allow to treat different slot types differently. E.g. for virtual slots there's no need to generate a JIT function to deform the slot. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de	7 years ago
Andres Freund	b84a6dafbf	Move EEOP_*_SYSVAR evaluation out of line. ... This mainly de-duplicates code. As evaluating a system variable isn't the hottest path and the current inline implementation ends up calling out to an external function anyway, this is OK from a performance POV. The main motivation for de-duplicating is the upcoming slot abstraction work, after which there's not guaranteed to be a HeapTuple backing the slot. Author: Andres Freund, Amit Khandekar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de	7 years ago
Tom Lane	1f4a920b73	Fix failure with initplans used conditionally during EvalPlanQual rechecks. ... The EvalPlanQual machinery assumes that any initplans (that is, uncorrelated sub-selects) used during an EPQ recheck would have already been evaluated during the main query; this is implicit in the fact that execPlan pointers are not copied into the EPQ estate's es_param_exec_vals. But it's possible for that assumption to fail, if the initplan is only reached conditionally. For example, a sub-select inside a CASE expression could be reached during a recheck when it had not been previously, if the CASE test depends on a column that was just updated. This bug is old, appearing to date back to my rewrite of EvalPlanQual in commit 9f2ee8f28, but was not detected until Kyle Samson reported a case. To fix, force all not-yet-evaluated initplans used within the EPQ plan subtree to be evaluated at the start of the recheck, before entering the EPQ environment. This could be inefficient, if such an initplan is expensive and goes unused again during the recheck --- but that's piling one layer of improbability atop another. It doesn't seem worth adding more complexity to prevent that, at least not in the back branches. It was convenient to use the new-in-v11 ExecEvalParamExecParams function to implement this, but I didn't like either its name or the specifics of its API, so revise that. Back-patch all the way. Rather than rewrite the patch to avoid depending on bms_next_member() in the oldest branches, I chose to back-patch that function into 9.4 and 9.3. (This isn't the first time back-patches have needed that, and it exhausted my patience.) I also chose to back-patch some test cases added by commits 71404af2a and 342a1ffa2 into 9.4 and 9.3, so that the 9.x versions of eval-plan-qual.spec are all the same. Andrew Gierth diagnosed the problem and contributed the added test cases, though the actual code changes are by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A033A40A-B234-4324-BE37-272279F7B627@tripadvisor.com	7 years ago
Tom Lane	bdf46af748	Post-feature-freeze pgindent run. ... Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us	8 years ago
Andres Freund	32af96b2b1	JIT tuple deforming in LLVM JIT provider. ... Performing JIT compilation for deforming gains performance benefits over unJITed deforming from compile-time knowledge of the tuple descriptor. Fixed column widths, NOT NULLness, etc can be taken advantage of. Right now the JITed deforming is only used when deforming tuples as part of expression evaluation (and obviously only if the descriptor is known). It's likely to be beneficial in other cases, too. By default tuple deforming is JITed whenever an expression is JIT compiled. There's a separate boolean GUC controlling it, but that's expected to be primarily useful for development and benchmarking. Docs will follow in a later commit containing docs for the whole JIT feature. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de	8 years ago