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  1. Nov 12, 2012
  2. Aug 30, 2012
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.h · c219d9b0
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      This reduces unnecessary exposure of other headers through htup.h, which
      is very widely included by many files.
      
      I have chosen to move the function prototypes to the new file as well,
      because that means htup.h no longer needs to include tupdesc.h.  In
      itself this doesn't have much effect in indirect inclusion of tupdesc.h
      throughout the tree, because it's also required by execnodes.h; but it's
      something to explore in the future, and it seemed best to do the htup.h
      change now while I'm busy with it.
      c219d9b0
  3. Jul 12, 2012
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Skip text->binary conversion of unnecessary columns in contrib/file_fdw. · a36088bc
      Tom Lane authored
      When reading from a text- or CSV-format file in file_fdw, the datatype
      input routines can consume a significant fraction of the runtime.
      Often, the query does not need all the columns, so we can get a useful
      speed boost by skipping I/O conversion for unnecessary columns.
      
      To support this, add a "convert_selectively" option to the core COPY code.
      This is undocumented and not accessible from SQL (for now, anyway).
      
      Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
      a36088bc
  4. Jun 10, 2012
  5. May 17, 2012
  6. Apr 19, 2012
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues. · 5b7b5518
      Tom Lane authored
      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.
      5b7b5518
  7. Apr 06, 2012
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Dept of second thoughts: improve the API for AnalyzeForeignTable. · cea49fe8
      Tom Lane authored
      If we make the initially-called function return the table physical-size
      estimate, acquire_inherited_sample_rows will be able to use that to
      allocate numbers of samples among child tables, when the day comes that
      we want to support foreign tables in inheritance trees.
      cea49fe8
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Allow statistics to be collected for foreign tables. · 263d9de6
      Tom Lane authored
      ANALYZE now accepts foreign tables and allows the table's FDW to control
      how the sample rows are collected.  (But only manual ANALYZEs will touch
      foreign tables, for the moment, since among other things it's not very
      clear how to handle remote permissions checks in an auto-analyze.)
      
      contrib/file_fdw is extended to support this.
      
      Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada, some further tweaking by me.
      263d9de6
  8. Mar 09, 2012
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Revise FDW planning API, again. · b1495393
      Tom Lane authored
      Further reflection shows that a single callback isn't very workable if we
      desire to let FDWs generate multiple Paths, because that forces the FDW to
      do all work necessary to generate a valid Plan node for each Path.  Instead
      split the former PlanForeignScan API into three steps: GetForeignRelSize,
      GetForeignPaths, GetForeignPlan.  We had already bit the bullet of breaking
      the 9.1 FDW API for 9.2, so this shouldn't cause very much additional pain,
      and it's substantially more flexible for complex FDWs.
      
      Add an fdw_private field to RelOptInfo so that the new functions can save
      state there rather than possibly having to recalculate information two or
      three times.
      
      In addition, we'd not thought through what would be needed to allow an FDW
      to set up subexpressions of its choice for runtime execution.  We could
      treat ForeignScan.fdw_private as an executable expression but that seems
      likely to break existing FDWs unnecessarily (in particular, it would
      restrict the set of node types allowable in fdw_private to those supported
      by expression_tree_walker).  Instead, invent a separate field fdw_exprs
      which will receive the postprocessing appropriate for expression trees.
      (One field is enough since it can be a list of expressions; also, we assume
      the corresponding expression state tree(s) will be held within fdw_state,
      so we don't need to add anything to ForeignScanState.)
      
      Per review of Hanada Shigeru's pgsql_fdw patch.  We may need to tweak this
      further as we continue to work on that patch, but to me it feels a lot
      closer to being right now.
      b1495393
  9. Mar 08, 2012
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add GetForeignColumnOptions() to foreign.c, and add some documentation. · 9088d1b9
      Tom Lane authored
      GetForeignColumnOptions provides some abstraction for accessing
      column-specific FDW options, on a par with the access functions that were
      already provided here for other FDW-related information.
      
      Adjust file_fdw.c to use GetForeignColumnOptions instead of equivalent
      hand-rolled code.
      
      In addition, add some SGML documentation for the functions exported by
      foreign.c that are meant for use by FDW authors.
      
      (This is the fdw_helper portion of the proposed pgsql_fdw patch.)
      
      Hanada Shigeru, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
      9088d1b9
  10. Mar 05, 2012
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Redesign PlanForeignScan API to allow multiple paths for a foreign table. · 6b289942
      Tom Lane authored
      The original API specification only allowed an FDW to create a single
      access path, which doesn't seem like a terribly good idea in hindsight.
      Instead, move the responsibility for building the Path node and calling
      add_path() into the FDW's PlanForeignScan function.  Now, it can do that
      more than once if appropriate.  There is no longer any need for the
      transient FdwPlan struct, so get rid of that.
      
      Etsuro Fujita, Shigeru Hanada, Tom Lane
      6b289942
  11. Jan 02, 2012
  12. Oct 12, 2011
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. · 458857cc
      Tom Lane authored
      We have seen one too many reports of people trying to use 9.1 extension
      files in the old-fashioned way of sourcing them in psql.  Not only does
      that usually not work (due to failure to substitute for MODULE_PATHNAME
      and/or @extschema@), but if it did work they'd get a collection of loose
      objects not an extension.  To prevent this, insert an \echo ... \quit
      line that prints a suitable error message into each extension script file,
      and teach commands/extension.c to ignore lines starting with \echo.
      That should not only prevent any adverse consequences of loading a script
      file the wrong way, but make it crystal clear to users that they need to
      do it differently now.
      
      Tom Lane, following an idea of Andrew Dunstan's.  Back-patch into 9.1
      ... there is not going to be much value in this if we wait till 9.2.
      458857cc
  13. Sep 16, 2011
  14. Jul 06, 2011
  15. Jul 04, 2011
  16. Apr 25, 2011
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      Support "make check" in contrib · f8ebe3bc
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      Added a new option --extra-install to pg_regress to arrange installing
      the respective contrib directory into the temporary installation.
      This is currently not yet supported for Windows MSVC builds.
      
      Updated the .gitignore files for contrib modules to ignore the
      leftovers of a temp-install check run.
      
      Changed the exit status of "make check" in a pgxs build (which still
      does nothing) to 0 from 1.
      
      Added "make check" in contrib to top-level "make check-world".
      f8ebe3bc
  17. Apr 10, 2011
  18. Feb 21, 2011
    • Itagaki Takahiro's avatar
      Add ENCODING option to COPY TO/FROM and file_fdw. · 3cba8240
      Itagaki Takahiro authored
      File encodings can be specified separately from client encoding.
      If not specified, client encoding is used for backward compatibility.
      
      Cases when the encoding doesn't match client encoding are slower
      than matched cases because we don't have conversion procs for other
      encodings. Performance improvement would be be a future work.
      
      Original patch by Hitoshi Harada, and modified by me.
      3cba8240
  19. Feb 20, 2011
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add contrib/file_fdw foreign-data wrapper for reading files via COPY. · 7c5d0ae7
      Tom Lane authored
      This is both very useful in its own right, and an important test case
      for the core FDW support.
      
      This commit includes a small refactoring of copy.c to expose its option
      checking code as a separately callable function.  The original patch
      submission duplicated hundreds of lines of that code, which seemed pretty
      unmaintainable.
      
      Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane
      7c5d0ae7
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