Re: [HACKERS] path toward faster partition pruning

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-07T11:13:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2018-04-07 15:49:54 +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> > Right, I suggest we wait and see if all members go green again as a
> > result of 40e42e1024c, and if they're happy then we could maybe leave
> > it as is with the 2 alternatives output files.
> 
> At least the first previously borked animal came back green (termite).

Thanks everyone for addressing this.

> I've also attempted to fix rhinoceros's failure I remarked upon a couple
> hours ago in
> https://postgr.es/m/20180406210330.wmqw42wqgiicktli@alap3.anarazel.de

And this, too.  I was unsure if this was because we were missing calling
some object access hook from the new code, or the additional pruning.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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Commits

  1. Fix assorted partition pruning bugs

  2. Make gen_partprune_steps static

  3. Remove useless 'default' clause

  4. Reorganize partitioning code

  5. Use custom hash opclass for hash partition pruning

  6. Blindly attempt to fix sepgsql tests broken due to 9fdb675fc5.

  7. Attempt to fix endianess issues in new hash partition test.

  8. Faster partition pruning

  9. For partitionwise join, match on partcollation, not parttypcoll.

  10. Revise API for partition bound search functions.

  11. Revise API for partition_rbound_cmp/partition_rbound_datum_cmp.

  12. Fix possible crash in partition-wise join.

  13. Refactor code for partition bound searching

  14. New C function: bms_add_range

  15. Add extensive tests for partition pruning.

  16. Add null test to partition constraint for default range partitions.

  17. Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.

  18. Make OWNER TO subcommand mention consistent

  19. Fix index matching for operators with mixed collatable/noncollatable inputs.