Re: [HACKERS] path toward faster partition pruning

Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>

From: Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.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: 2018-04-06T17:45:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi Alvaro,

On 04/06/2018 12:41 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Here's my proposed patch.
> 
> Idle thought: how about renaming the "constfalse" argument and variables
> to "contradictory" or maybe just "contradict"?
> 

Passes check-world.

New directories, and variable rename seems like a good idea; either is ok.

Best regards,
  Jesper


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.