Re: [HACKERS] path toward faster partition pruning

Amit Langote <langote_amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>

From: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-03-14T10:06:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2018/03/14 8:26, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> By the way, I checked whether patch 0002 (additional tests) had an
> effect on coverage, and couldn't detect any changes in terms of
> lines/functions.  Were you able to find any bugs in your code thanks to
> the new tests that would not have been covered by existing tests?

All tests except those for hash partitioning got added as bugs were found
in the patch and fixed.  As you may know, constraint exclusion doesn't
help with pruning hash partitions, so those tests don' exercise any
existing functionality but are there for the *new* code.

Thanks,
Amit



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.