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: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-02-19T04:59:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi David.

On 2018/02/17 18:24, David Rowley wrote:
> On 2 February 2018 at 23:03, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> I started wondering if it's not such a good idea to make
>> PartitionClauseInfo a Node at all?  I went back to your earlier message
>> [1] where you said that it's put into the Append node for run-time pruning
>> to use, but it doesn't sound nice that we'd be putting into the plan
>> something that's looks more like scratchpad for the partition.c code.  I
>> think we should try to keep PartitionClauseInfo in partition.h and put
>> only the list of matched bare clauses into Append.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea.
> 
> A patch which puts this back is attached.
> 
> I've changed the run-time prune patch to process the clause lists
> during execution instead.

Thank you.  I'll incorporate it in the version I'll send next.

Regards,
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.