Re: POC, WIP: OR-clause support for indexes

Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>

From: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br>, teodor@sigaev.ru, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2025-01-12T20:38:35Z
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  1. Make group_similar_or_args() reorder clause list as little as possible

  2. Allow usage of match_orclause_to_indexcol() for joins

  3. Skip not SOAP-supported indexes while transforming an OR clause into SAOP

  4. Remove the wrong assertion from match_orclause_to_indexcol()

  5. Teach bitmap path generation about transforming OR-clauses to SAOP's

  6. Transform OR-clauses to SAOP's during index matching

  7. Fix the value of or_to_any_transform_limit in postgresql.conf.sample

  8. Transform OR clauses to ANY expression

  9. MergeAttributes code deduplication

  10. SEARCH and CYCLE clauses

  11. Improve estimation of OR clauses using extended statistics.

  12. Teach btree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively.

  13. Revise collation derivation method and expression-tree representation.

  14. Instead of trying to force WHERE clauses into CNF or DNF normal form,

Hi!

On 12.01.2025 21:39, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 9:54 AM Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 7:51 AM Alena Rybakina
>> <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>>> On 29.11.2024 03:04, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 9:33 PM Alena Rybakina
>>>> <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>>>>> On 28.11.2024 22:28, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Em qui., 28 de nov. de 2024 às 16:03, Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> escreveu:
>>>>>> Hi! Thank you for the case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 28.11.2024 21:00, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello Alexander,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 21.11.2024 09:34, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
>>>>>>>> I'm going to push this if no objections.
>>>>>>> Please look at the following query, which triggers an error after
>>>>>>> ae4569161:
>>>>>>> SET random_page_cost = 1;
>>>>>>> CREATE TABLE tbl(u UUID);
>>>>>>> CREATE INDEX idx ON tbl USING HASH (u);
>>>>>>> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tbl WHERE u = '00000000000000000000000000000000' OR
>>>>>>>     u = '11111111111111111111111111111111';
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ERROR:  XX000: ScalarArrayOpExpr index qual found where not allowed
>>>>>>> LOCATION:  ExecIndexBuildScanKeys, nodeIndexscan.c:1625
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I found out what the problem is index scan method was not generated. We
>>>>>> need to check this during OR clauses for SAOP transformation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is a patch to fix this problem.
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>> Thanks for the quick fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I wonder if it is not possible to avoid all if the index is useless?
>>>>> Maybe moving your fix to the beginning of the function?
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c b/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c
>>>>> index d827fc9f4d..5ea0b27d01 100644
>>>>> --- a/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c
>>>>> +++ b/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c
>>>>> @@ -3248,6 +3248,10 @@ match_orclause_to_indexcol(PlannerInfo *root,
>>>>>     Assert(IsA(orclause, BoolExpr));
>>>>>     Assert(orclause->boolop == OR_EXPR);
>>>>>
>>>>> + /* Ignore index if it doesn't support index scans */
>>>>> + if(!index->amsearcharray)
>>>>> + return NULL;
>>>>> +
>>>>>
>>>>> Agree. I have updated the patch
>>>>>
>>>>>     /*
>>>>>     * Try to convert a list of OR-clauses to a single SAOP expression. Each
>>>>>     * OR entry must be in the form: (indexkey operator constant) or (constant
>>>>>
>>>>> The test bug:
>>>>> EXPLAIN SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tbl WHERE u = '00000000000000000000000000000000' OR u = '11111111111111111111111111111111';
>>>>>                                                               QUERY PLAN
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>    Aggregate  (cost=12.46..12.47 rows=1 width=8)
>>>>>      ->  Bitmap Heap Scan on tbl  (cost=2.14..12.41 rows=18 width=0)
>>>>>            Recheck Cond: ((u = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'::uuid) OR (u = '11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111'::uuid))
>>>>>            ->  BitmapOr  (cost=2.14..2.14 rows=18 width=0)
>>>>>                  ->  Bitmap Index Scan on idx  (cost=0.00..1.07 rows=9 width=0)
>>>>>                        Index Cond: (u = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'::uuid)
>>>>>                  ->  Bitmap Index Scan on idx  (cost=0.00..1.07 rows=9 width=0)
>>>>>                        Index Cond: (u = '11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111'::uuid)
>>>>> (8 rows)
>>>> I slightly revised the fix and added similar check to
>>>> group_similar_or_args().  Could you, please, review that before
>>>> commit?
>>>>
>>> I agree with changes. Thank you!
>> Andrei, Alena, thank you for the feedback. Pushed!
> I think we should give some more attention to the patch enabling OR to
> SAOP transformation for joins (first time posted in [1]).  I think we
> tried to only work with Const and Param, because we were previously
> working during parse stage. So, at that stage if we have the clause
> like "a.x = 1 OR a.x = b.x OR b.x = 2", then we don't know if we
> should transform it into "a.x = ANY(1, b.x) OR b.x = 2" or into "a.x
> =1 OR b.x = ANY(a.x, 2)". But if we do the transformation during the
> index matching, we would actually be able to try the both and select
> the best.
>
> The revised patch is attached.  Most notably it revises
> group_similar_or_args() to have the same notion of const-ness as
> others.  In that function we split potential index key and constant
> early to save time on enumerating all possible index keys.  But it
> appears to be possible to split by relids bitmapsets: index key should
> use our relid, while const shouldn't.  Other that that, comments,
> commit message and naming are revised.
>
> Links.
> 1. https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdu9QJ%3DGbua3CUUH2KKG_8urakJTen4JD47PGh9wWP%3DQxQ%40mail.gmail.com
>
I like your idea. I looked at your patch and haven't noticed any bugs 
yet, but my review is not finished.

I think we're missing tests here - I only noticed one difference in the 
regression test related to your specific improvement.

I thought it would be possible to look at cases where q1 and q2 are not 
equal to an integer constant table,
but have a more complex structure. For example, set the conditions "q1 
as select (1=1)::integer" and "q2 as select (1=0)::integer".

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Regards,
Alena Rybakina
Postgres Professional