Re: [HACKERS] path toward faster partition pruning

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-06T23:01:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> I don't actually like very much the idea of putting all this code in
> optimizer/util.  This morning it occurred to me that we should create a new
> src/backend/partitioning/ (and a src/include/partitioning/ to go with
> it) and drop a bunch of files there.  Even your proposed new partcache.c
> will seem misplaced *anywhere*, since it contains support code to be
> used by both planner and executor; in src/{backend,include}/partitioning
> it will be able to serve both without it being a modularity wart.

Uh, what?

Surely partcache.c is correctly placed next to relcache.c and
syscache.c and everything else in src/backend/utils/cache.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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.