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Re: [HACKERS] path toward faster partition pruning

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

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-13T14:50:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:35 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > Here's an idea.  Why don't we move the function/opclass creation lines
> > to insert.sql, without the DROPs, and use the same functions/opclasses
> > in the three tests insert.sql, alter_table.sql, hash_part.sql and
> > partition_prune.sql, i.e. not recreate what are essentially the same
> > objects three times?  This also leaves them around for the pg_upgrade
> > test, which is not a bad thing.
> 
> That sounds good, but maybe we should go further and move the
> partitioning tests out of generically-named things like insert.sql
> altogether and have test names that actually mention partitioning.

I don't think that's necessary to fix the problem that
partition_prune_hash.sql file has two expected output files.  If you
want to propose such a reorganization, feel free, but let's not hijack
the patch at hand.  For the record, I'm not a fan of the idea.

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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.