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Re: [HACKERS] path toward faster partition pruning

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Marina Polyakova <m.polyakova@postgrespro.ru>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-05-08T16:27:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Michael Paquier wrote:

> So the problem appears when an expression needs to use
> COERCION_PATH_ARRAYCOERCE for a type coercion from one type to another,
> which requires an execution state to be able to build the list of
> elements.  The clause matching happens at planning state, so while there
> are surely cases where this could be improved depending on the
> expression type, I propose to just discard all clauses which do not
> match OpExpr and ArrayExpr for now, as per the attached.  It would be
> definitely a good practice to have a default code path returning
> PARTCLAUSE_UNSUPPORTED where the element list cannot be built.
> 
> Thoughts?

I found a related crash and I'm investigating it further.

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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.