Expands count distinct coverage by allowing more cases. We used to support
count distinct only if we can push down distinct aggregate to worker query
i.e. the count distinct clause was on the partition column of the table,
or there was a grouping on the partition column.
Now we can support
- non-partition columns, with or without grouping on partition column
- partition, and non partition column in the same query
- having clause
- single table subqueries
- insert into select queries
- join queries where count distinct is on partition, or non-partition column
- filters on count distinct clauses (extends existing support)
We first try to push down aggregate to worker query (original case), if we
can't then we modify worker query to return distinct columns to coordinator
node. We do that by adding distinct column targets to group by clauses. Then
we perform count distinct operation on the coordinator node.
This work should reduce the cases where HLL is used as it can address anything
that HLL can. However, if we start having performance issues due to very large
number rows, then we can recommend hll use.
Two sets of tests are fixed by this change:
* multi_agg_approximate_distinct
* those in multi_task_tracker_extra_schedule
The first broke when we renamed stage to load in many files and was
never being run because the HyperLogLog extension wasn't easily
available in Debian. Now it's in our repo, so we install it and run
the test. I removed the distinct HLL target in favor of just always
running it and providing an output variant to handle when the extension
is absent. Basically, if PostgreSQL thinks HLL is available, the test
installs it and runs normally, otherwise the absent variant is used.
The second broke when I removed a test variant, erroneously believing
it to be related to an older Citus version. I've added a line in that
test to clarify why the variant is necessary (a practice we should
widely adopt).
Onder Kalaci
Murat Tuncer
Jason Petersen
Marco Slot
Murat Tuncer