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* Rejigger mergejoin logic so that a tuple with a null in the first merge columnTom Lane2010-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | is treated like end-of-input, if nulls sort last in that column and we are not doing outer-join filling for that input. In such a case, the tuple cannot join to anything from the other input (because we assume mergejoinable operators are strict), and neither can any tuple following it in the sort order. If we're not interested in doing outer-join filling we can just pretend the tuple and its successors aren't there at all. This can save a great deal of time in situations where there are many nulls in the join column, as in a recent example from Scott Marlowe. Also, since the planner tends to not count nulls in its mergejoin scan selectivity estimates, this is an important fix to make the runtime behavior more like the estimate. I regard this as an omission in the patch I wrote years ago to teach mergejoin that tuples containing nulls aren't joinable, so I'm back-patching it. But only to 8.3 --- in older versions, we didn't have a solid notion of whether nulls sort high or low, so attempting to apply this optimization could break things.
* Add support for doing FULL JOIN ON FALSE. While this is really a ratherTom Lane2010-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | peculiar variant of UNION ALL, and so wouldn't likely get written directly as-is, it's possible for it to arise as a result of simplification of less-obviously-silly queries. In particular, now that we can do flattening of subqueries that have constant outputs and are underneath an outer join, it's possible for the case to result from simplification of queries of the type exhibited in bug #5263. Back-patch to 8.4 to avoid a functionality regression for this type of query.
* 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian2009-06-11
| | | | provided by Andrew.
* Revert DTrace patch from Robert LorBruce Momjian2009-04-02
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* Add support for additional DTrace probes.Bruce Momjian2009-04-02
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* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Performance fix for new anti-join code in nodeMergejoin.c: after finding aTom Lane2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | match in antijoin mode, we should advance to next outer tuple not next inner. We know we don't want to return this outer tuple, and there is no point in advancing over matching inner tuples now, because we'd just have to do it again if the next outer tuple has the same merge key. This makes a noticeable difference if there are lots of duplicate keys in both inputs. Similarly, after finding a match in semijoin mode, arrange to advance to the next outer tuple after returning the current match; or immediately, if it fails the extra quals. The rationale is the same. (This is a performance bug in existing releases; perhaps worth back-patching? The planner tries to avoid using mergejoin with lots of duplicates, so it may not be a big issue in practice.) Nestloop and hash got this right to start with, but I made some cosmetic adjustments there to make the corresponding bits of logic look more similar.
* Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replaceTom Lane2008-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.) Teach the planner to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti joins respectively. Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL filters are recognized as being anti joins. Unify the InClauseInfo and OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo". With that change, it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt, which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation. That needs to be taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a separate patch. So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and especially anti joins are quite bogus.
* Since createplan.c no longer cares whether index operators are lossy, it hasTom Lane2008-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | no particular need to do get_op_opfamily_properties() while building an indexscan plan. Postpone that lookup until executor start. This simplifies createplan.c a lot more than it complicates nodeIndexscan.c, and makes things more uniform since we already had to do it that way for RowCompare expressions. Should be a bit faster too, at least for plans that aren't re-used many times, since we avoid palloc'ing and perhaps copying the intermediate list data structure.
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* Teach tuplestore.c to throw away data before the "mark" point when the callerTom Lane2007-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | is using mark/restore but not rewind or backward-scan capability. Insert a materialize plan node between a mergejoin and its inner child if the inner child is a sort that is expected to spill to disk. The materialize shields the sort from the need to do mark/restore and thereby allows it to perform its final merge pass on-the-fly; while the materialize itself is normally cheap since it won't spill to disk unless the number of tuples with equal key values exceeds work_mem. Greg Stark, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
* Repair failure to check that a table is still compatible with a previouslyTom Lane2007-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | made query plan. Use of ALTER COLUMN TYPE creates a hazard for cached query plans: they could contain Vars that claim a column has a different type than it now has. Fix this by checking during plan startup that Vars at relation scan level match the current relation tuple descriptor. Since at that point we already have at least AccessShareLock, we can be sure the column type will not change underneath us later in the query. However, since a backend's locks do not conflict against itself, there is still a hole for an attacker to exploit: he could try to execute ALTER COLUMN TYPE while a query is in progress in the current backend. Seal that hole by rejecting ALTER TABLE whenever the target relation is already open in the current backend. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0556
* Teach nodeMergejoin how to handle DESC and/or NULLS FIRST sort orders.Tom Lane2007-01-11
| | | | So far only tested by hacking the planner ...
* Change the planner-to-executor API so that the planner tells the executorTom Lane2007-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | which comparison operators to use for plan nodes involving tuple comparison (Agg, Group, Unique, SetOp). Formerly the executor looked up the default equality operator for the datatype, which was really pretty shaky, since it's possible that the data being fed to the node is sorted according to some nondefault operator class that could have an incompatible idea of equality. The planner knows what it has sorted by and therefore can provide the right equality operator to use. Also, this change moves a couple of catalog lookups out of the executor and into the planner, which should help startup time for pre-planned queries by some small amount. Modify the planner to remove some other cavalier assumptions about always being able to use the default operators. Also add "nulls first/last" info to the Plan node for a mergejoin --- neither the executor nor the planner can cope yet, but at least the API is in place.
* Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian2007-01-05
| | | | back-stamped for this.
* Restructure operator classes to allow improved handling of cross-data-typeTom Lane2006-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cases. Operator classes now exist within "operator families". While most families are equivalent to a single class, related classes can be grouped into one family to represent the fact that they are semantically compatible. Cross-type operators are now naturally adjunct parts of a family, without having to wedge them into a particular opclass as we had done originally. This commit restructures the catalogs and cleans up enough of the fallout so that everything still works at least as well as before, but most of the work needed to actually improve the planner's behavior will come later. Also, there are not yet CREATE/DROP/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands; the only way to create a new family right now is to allow CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to make one by default. I owe some more documentation work, too. But that can all be done in smaller pieces once this infrastructure is in place.
* pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian2006-10-04
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* Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian2006-07-14
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* Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in useTom Lane2006-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time ago for catcache entries. The back branches have an ugly solution involving lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient. Reference counting is only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context. Neil Conway and Tom Lane
* Fix bug introduced into mergejoin logic by performance improvement patch ofTom Lane2006-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2005-05-13. When we find that a new inner tuple can't possibly match any outer tuple (because it contains a NULL), we can't immediately skip the tuple when we are in NEXTINNER state. Doing so can lead to emitting multiple copies of the tuple in FillInner mode, because we may rescan the tuple after returning to a previous marked tuple. Instead, proceed to NEXTOUTER state the same as we used to do. After we've found that there's no need to return to the marked position, we can go to SKIPINNER_ADVANCE state instead of SKIP_TEST when the inner tuple is unmatchable; this preserves the performance improvement. Per bug report from Bruce. I also made a couple of cosmetic code rearrangements and added a regression test for the problem.
* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Extend the ExecInitNode API so that plan nodes receive a set of flagTom Lane2006-02-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | bits indicating which optional capabilities can actually be exercised at runtime. This will allow Sort and Material nodes, and perhaps later other nodes, to avoid unnecessary overhead in common cases. This commit just adds the infrastructure and arranges to pass the correct flag values down to plan nodes; none of the actual optimizations are here yet. I'm committing this separately in case anyone wants to measure the added overhead. (It should be negligible.) Simon Riggs and Tom Lane
* Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian2005-11-22
| | | | | | | | | comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
* Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-10-15
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* Fix latent bug in ExecSeqRestrPos: it leaves the plan node's result slotTom Lane2005-05-15
| | | | | | | in an inconsistent state. (This is only latent because in reality ExecSeqRestrPos is dead code at the moment ... but someday maybe it won't be.) Add some comments about what the API for plan node mark/restore actually is, because it's not immediately obvious.
* Minor refactoring to eliminate duplicate code and make startup aTom Lane2005-05-14
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* Revise nodeMergejoin in light of example provided by Guillaume Smet.Tom Lane2005-05-13
| | | | | | | | | | When one side of the join has a NULL, we don't want to uselessly try to match it against every remaining tuple of the other side. While at it, rewrite the comparison machinery to avoid multiple evaluations of the left and right input expressions and to use a btree comparator where available, instead of double operator calls. Also revise the state machine to eliminate redundant comparisons and hopefully make it more readable too.
* For some reason access/tupmacs.h has been #including utils/memutils.h,Tom Lane2005-05-06
| | | | | | | which is neither needed by nor related to that header. Remove the bogus inclusion and instead include the header in those C files that actually need it. Also fix unnecessary inclusions and bad inclusion order in tsearch2 files.
* Revise TupleTableSlot code to avoid unnecessary construction and disassemblyTom Lane2005-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of tuples when passing data up through multiple plan nodes. A slot can now hold either a normal "physical" HeapTuple, or a "virtual" tuple consisting of Datum/isnull arrays. Upper plan levels can usually just copy the Datum arrays, avoiding heap_formtuple() and possible subsequent nocachegetattr() calls to extract the data again. This work extends Atsushi Ogawa's earlier patch, which provided the key idea of adding Datum arrays to TupleTableSlots. (I believe however that something like this was foreseen way back in Berkeley days --- see the old comment on ExecProject.) A test case involving many levels of join of fairly wide tables (about 80 columns altogether) showed about 3x overall speedup, though simple queries will probably not be helped very much. I have also duplicated some code in heaptuple.c in order to provide versions of heap_formtuple and friends that use "bool" arrays to indicate null attributes, instead of the old convention of "char" arrays containing either 'n' or ' '. This provides a better match to the convention used by ExecEvalExpr. While I have not made a concerted effort to get rid of uses of the old routines, I think they should be deprecated and eventually removed.
* Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon2004-12-31
| | | | | | | | Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
* Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Use the new List API function names throughout the backend, and disable theNeil Conway2004-05-30
| | | | | list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.
* Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway2004-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
* Replace the switching function ExecEvalExpr() with a macro that jumpsTom Lane2004-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | directly to the appropriate per-node execution function, using a function pointer stored by ExecInitExpr. This speeds things up by eliminating one level of function call. The function-pointer technique also enables further small improvements such as only making one-time tests once (and then changing the function pointer). Overall this seems to gain about 10% on evaluation of simple expressions, which isn't earthshaking but seems a worthwhile gain for a relatively small hack. Per recent discussion on pghackers.
* $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon2003-11-29
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* Message editing: remove gratuitous variations in message wording, standardizePeter Eisentraut2003-09-25
| | | | | terms, add some clarifications, fix some untranslatable attempts at dynamic message building.
* Another pgindent run with updated typedefs.Bruce Momjian2003-08-08
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* Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian2003-08-04
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* pgindent run.Bruce Momjian2003-08-04
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* Error message editing in backend/executor.Tom Lane2003-07-21
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* Ditch ExecGetTupType() in favor of the much simpler ExecGetResultType(),Tom Lane2003-05-05
| | | | | | which does the same thing. Perhaps at one time there was a reason to allow plan nodes to store their result types in different places, but AFAICT that's been unnecessary for a good while.
* IN clauses appearing at top level of WHERE can now be handled as joins.Tom Lane2003-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | There are two implementation techniques: the executor understands a new JOIN_IN jointype, which emits at most one matching row per left-hand row, or the result of the IN's sub-select can be fed through a DISTINCT filter and then joined as an ordinary relation. Along the way, some minor code cleanup in the optimizer; notably, break out most of the jointree-rearrangement preprocessing in planner.c and put it in a new file prep/prepjointree.c.
* Revise executor APIs so that all per-query state structure is built inTom Lane2002-12-15
| | | | | | a per-query memory context created by CreateExecutorState --- and destroyed by FreeExecutorState. This provides a final solution to the longstanding problem of memory leaked by various ExecEndNode calls.
* Phase 3 of read-only-plans project: ExecInitExpr now builds expressionTom Lane2002-12-13
| | | | | | | execution state trees, and ExecEvalExpr takes an expression state tree not an expression plan tree. The plan tree is now read-only as far as the executor is concerned. Next step is to begin actually exploiting this property.
* Phase 2 of read-only-plans project: restructure expression-tree nodesTom Lane2002-12-12
| | | | | | | | | so that all executable expression nodes inherit from a common supertype Expr. This is somewhat of an exercise in code purity rather than any real functional advance, but getting rid of the extra Oper or Func node formerly used in each operator or function call should provide at least a little space and speed improvement. initdb forced by changes in stored-rules representation.
* Phase 1 of read-only-plans project: cause executor state nodes to pointTom Lane2002-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | to plan nodes, not vice-versa. All executor state nodes now inherit from struct PlanState. Copying of plan trees has been simplified by not storing a list of SubPlans in Plan nodes (eliminating duplicate links). The executor still needs such a list, but it can build it during ExecutorStart since it has to scan the plan tree anyway. No initdb forced since no stored-on-disk structures changed, but you will need a full recompile because of node-numbering changes.
* pgindent run.Bruce Momjian2002-09-04
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* Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian2002-06-20
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