Re: [HACKERS] path toward faster partition pruning

David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>

From: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-04-07T03:49:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 7 April 2018 at 15:41, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Sounds like you're saying that if we have too many alternative files
>> then there's a chance that one could pass by luck.
>
> Yeah, exactly: it passed, but did it pass for the right reason?
>
> If there's just two expected-files, it's likely not a big problem,
> but if you have a bunch it's something to worry about.

Right, I suggest we wait and see if all members go green again as a
result of 40e42e1024c, and if they're happy then we could maybe leave
it as is with the 2 alternatives output files.

If there are some other variations that crop up, then we can think
harder about what we can do to improve the coverage.

I don't particularly think it matters which hash partition a tuple
goes into, as long as the hash function spreads the values out enough
and most importantly, the pruning code looks for the tuple in the
partition that it was actually inserted into in the first place.
Obviously, we also want to ensure we never do anything which would
change the matching partition in either minor or major version
upgrades too.

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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.