Re: PG 15 (and to a smaller degree 14) regression due to ExprEvalStep size

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2022-07-15T21:07:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2022-07-08 17:05:49 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 2022-07-05 Tu 15:04, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > On 2022-07-05 Tu 14:36, Andres Freund wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I think Andrew's beta 2 comment was more about my other architectural
> >>>> complains around the json expression eval stuff.
> >>> Right. That's being worked on but it's not going to be a mechanical fix.
> >> Any updates here?
> >
> > Not yet. A colleague and I are working on it. I'll post a status this
> > week if we can't post a fix.

> We're still working on it. We've made substantial progress but there are
> some tests failing that we need to fix.

I think we need to resolve this soon - or consider the alternatives. A lot of
the new json stuff doesn't seem fully baked, so I'm starting to wonder if we
have to consider pushing it a release further down.

Perhaps you could post your current state? I might be able to help resolving
some of the problems.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. JSON_TABLE: Add support for NESTED paths and columns

  2. Add basic JSON_TABLE() functionality

  3. Add SQL/JSON query functions

  4. Add soft error handling to some expression nodes

  5. Adjust populate_record_field() to handle errors softly

  6. Refactor code used by jsonpath executor to fetch variables

  7. Add more SQL/JSON constructor functions

  8. SQL/JSON: support the IS JSON predicate

  9. SQL/JSON: add standard JSON constructor functions

  10. Add static assertion ensuring sizeof(ExprEvalStep) <= 64 bytes

  11. Remove size increase in ExprEvalStep caused by hashed saops

  12. pgstat: reduce timer overhead by leaving timer running.

  13. expression eval: Fix EEOP_JSON_CONSTRUCTOR and EEOP_JSONEXPR size.

  14. SQL/JSON query functions

  15. Speedup ScalarArrayOpExpr evaluation