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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* pathnode.h
* prototypes for pathnode.c, relnode.c.
*
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2015, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
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* src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
#ifndef PATHNODE_H
#define PATHNODE_H
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#include "nodes/relation.h"
/*
* prototypes for pathnode.c
*/
extern int compare_path_costs(Path *path1, Path *path2,
CostSelector criterion);
extern int compare_fractional_path_costs(Path *path1, Path *path2,
double fraction);
extern void set_cheapest(RelOptInfo *parent_rel);
extern void add_path(RelOptInfo *parent_rel, Path *new_path);
extern bool add_path_precheck(RelOptInfo *parent_rel,
Cost startup_cost, Cost total_cost,
List *pathkeys, Relids required_outer);
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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extern Path *create_seqscan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
Relids required_outer, int nworkers);
extern Path *create_samplescan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
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Relids required_outer);
extern IndexPath *create_index_path(PlannerInfo *root,
IndexOptInfo *index,
List *indexclauses,
List *indexclausecols,
List *indexorderbys,
List *indexorderbycols,
List *pathkeys,
ScanDirection indexscandir,
bool indexonly,
Relids required_outer,
double loop_count);
extern BitmapHeapPath *create_bitmap_heap_path(PlannerInfo *root,
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RelOptInfo *rel,
Path *bitmapqual,
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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Relids required_outer,
double loop_count);
extern BitmapAndPath *create_bitmap_and_path(PlannerInfo *root,
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RelOptInfo *rel,
List *bitmapquals);
extern BitmapOrPath *create_bitmap_or_path(PlannerInfo *root,
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RelOptInfo *rel,
List *bitmapquals);
extern TidPath *create_tidscan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
List *tidquals, Relids required_outer);
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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extern AppendPath *create_append_path(RelOptInfo *rel, List *subpaths,
Relids required_outer);
extern MergeAppendPath *create_merge_append_path(PlannerInfo *root,
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RelOptInfo *rel,
List *subpaths,
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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List *pathkeys,
Relids required_outer);
extern ResultPath *create_result_path(List *quals);
extern MaterialPath *create_material_path(RelOptInfo *rel, Path *subpath);
extern UniquePath *create_unique_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
Path *subpath, SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo);
extern GatherPath *create_gather_path(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel, Path *subpath, Relids required_outer,
int nworkers);
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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extern Path *create_subqueryscan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
List *pathkeys, Relids required_outer);
extern Path *create_functionscan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
List *pathkeys, Relids required_outer);
extern Path *create_valuesscan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
Relids required_outer);
extern Path *create_ctescan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
Relids required_outer);
extern Path *create_worktablescan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
Relids required_outer);
extern ForeignPath *create_foreignscan_path(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
double rows, Cost startup_cost, Cost total_cost,
List *pathkeys,
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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Relids required_outer,
Path *fdw_outerpath,
List *fdw_private);
extern Relids calc_nestloop_required_outer(Path *outer_path, Path *inner_path);
extern Relids calc_non_nestloop_required_outer(Path *outer_path, Path *inner_path);
extern NestPath *create_nestloop_path(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *joinrel,
JoinType jointype,
JoinCostWorkspace *workspace,
SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo,
SemiAntiJoinFactors *semifactors,
Path *outer_path,
Path *inner_path,
List *restrict_clauses,
List *pathkeys,
Relids required_outer);
extern MergePath *create_mergejoin_path(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *joinrel,
JoinType jointype,
JoinCostWorkspace *workspace,
SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo,
Path *outer_path,
Path *inner_path,
List *restrict_clauses,
List *pathkeys,
Relids required_outer,
List *mergeclauses,
List *outersortkeys,
List *innersortkeys);
extern HashPath *create_hashjoin_path(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *joinrel,
JoinType jointype,
JoinCostWorkspace *workspace,
SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo,
SemiAntiJoinFactors *semifactors,
Path *outer_path,
Path *inner_path,
List *restrict_clauses,
Relids required_outer,
List *hashclauses);
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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extern Path *reparameterize_path(PlannerInfo *root, Path *path,
Relids required_outer,
double loop_count);
/*
* prototypes for relnode.c
*/
extern void setup_simple_rel_arrays(PlannerInfo *root);
extern RelOptInfo *build_simple_rel(PlannerInfo *root, int relid,
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RelOptKind reloptkind);
extern RelOptInfo *find_base_rel(PlannerInfo *root, int relid);
extern RelOptInfo *find_join_rel(PlannerInfo *root, Relids relids);
extern RelOptInfo *build_join_rel(PlannerInfo *root,
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Relids joinrelids,
RelOptInfo *outer_rel,
RelOptInfo *inner_rel,
SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo,
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List **restrictlist_ptr);
Still more fixes for planner's handling of LATERAL references. More fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich exposed that the planner did not cope well with chains of lateral references. If relation X references Y laterally, and Y references Z laterally, then we will have to scan X on the inside of a nestloop with Z, so for all intents and purposes X is laterally dependent on Z too. The planner did not understand this and would generate intermediate joins that could not be used. While that was usually harmless except for wasting some planning cycles, under the right circumstances it would lead to "failed to build any N-way joins" or "could not devise a query plan" planner failures. To fix that, convert the existing per-relation lateral_relids and lateral_referencers relid sets into their transitive closures; that is, they now show all relations on which a rel is directly or indirectly laterally dependent. This not only fixes the chained-reference problem but allows some of the relevant tests to be made substantially simpler and faster, since they can be reduced to simple bitmap manipulations instead of searches of the LateralJoinInfo list. Also, when a PlaceHolderVar that is due to be evaluated at a join contains lateral references, we should treat those references as indirect lateral dependencies of each of the join's base relations. This prevents us from trying to join any individual base relations to the lateral reference source before the join is formed, which again cannot work. Andreas' testing also exposed another oversight in the "dangerous PlaceHolderVar" test added in commit 85e5e222b1dd02f1. Simply rejecting unsafe join paths in joinpath.c is insufficient, because in some cases we will end up rejecting *all* possible paths for a particular join, again leading to "could not devise a query plan" failures. The restriction has to be known also to join_is_legal and its cohort functions, so that they will not select a join for which that will happen. I chose to move the supporting logic into joinrels.c where the latter functions are. Back-patch to 9.3 where LATERAL support was introduced.
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extern Relids min_join_parameterization(PlannerInfo *root,
Relids joinrelids,
RelOptInfo *outer_rel,
RelOptInfo *inner_rel);
extern RelOptInfo *build_empty_join_rel(PlannerInfo *root);
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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extern AppendRelInfo *find_childrel_appendrelinfo(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel);
Fix some more problems with nested append relations. As of commit a87c72915 (which later got backpatched as far as 9.1), we're explicitly supporting the notion that append relations can be nested; this can occur when UNION ALL constructs are nested, or when a UNION ALL contains a table with inheritance children. Bug #11457 from Nelson Page, as well as an earlier report from Elvis Pranskevichus, showed that there were still nasty bugs associated with such cases: in particular the EquivalenceClass mechanism could try to generate "join" clauses connecting an appendrel child to some grandparent appendrel, which would result in assertion failures or bogus plans. Upon investigation I concluded that all current callers of find_childrel_appendrelinfo() need to be fixed to explicitly consider multiple levels of parent appendrels. The most complex fix was in processing of "broken" EquivalenceClasses, which are ECs for which we have been unable to generate all the derived equality clauses we would like to because of missing cross-type equality operators in the underlying btree operator family. That code path is more or less entirely untested by the regression tests to date, because no standard opfamilies have such holes in them. So I wrote a new regression test script to try to exercise it a bit, which turned out to be quite a worthwhile activity as it exposed existing bugs in all supported branches. The present patch is essentially the same as far back as 9.2, which is where parameterized paths were introduced. In 9.0 and 9.1, we only need to back-patch a small fragment of commit 5b7b5518d, which fixes failure to propagate out the original WHERE clauses when a broken EC contains constant members. (The regression test case results show that these older branches are noticeably stupider than 9.2+ in terms of the quality of the plans generated; but we don't really care about plan quality in such cases, only that the plan not be outright wrong. A more invasive fix in the older branches would not be a good idea anyway from a plan-stability standpoint.)
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extern RelOptInfo *find_childrel_top_parent(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
extern Relids find_childrel_parents(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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extern ParamPathInfo *get_baserel_parampathinfo(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *baserel,
Relids required_outer);
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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extern ParamPathInfo *get_joinrel_parampathinfo(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *joinrel,
Path *outer_path,
Path *inner_path,
SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo,
Relids required_outer,
List **restrict_clauses);
Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
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extern ParamPathInfo *get_appendrel_parampathinfo(RelOptInfo *appendrel,
Relids required_outer);
#endif /* PATHNODE_H */