**Problem**: Currently, we error out if we detect recurring tuples in
one side without checking the other side of the join.
**Solution**: When one side of the full join consists recurring tuples
and the other side consists nonrecurring tuples, we should not pushdown
to prevent duplicate results. Otherwise, safe to pushdown.
Before this commit, the logic was:
- As long as the outer side of the JOIN is not a JOIN (e.g., relation
or subquery etc.), we check for the existence of any recurring
tuples. There were two implications of this decision.
First, even if a subquery which is on the outer side contains
distributed table JOIN reference table, Citus would unnecessarily throw
an error. Note that, the JOIN inside the subquery would already
be going to be tested recursively. But, as long as that check
passes, there is no reason for the upper JOIN to fail. An example, which
used to fail and now works:
SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM dist JOIN ref) as foo LEFT JOIN dist;
Second, certain JOINs, especially with ON (true) conditions were not
represented as Citus expects the JOINs to be in the format
DeferredErrorIfUnsupportedRecurringTuplesJoin().
We used to error out if there is a reference table
in the query participating a union. This has caused
pushdownable queries to be evaluated in coordinator.
Now we let reference tables inside union queries as long
as there is a distributed table in from clause.
Existing join checks (reference table on the outer part)
sufficient enought that we do not need check the join relation
of reference tables.
With #1804 (and related PRs), Citus gained the ability to
plan subqueries that are not safe to pushdown.
There are two high-level requirements for pushing down subqueries:
* Individual subqueries that require a merge step (i.e., GROUP BY
on non-distribution key, or LIMIT in the subquery etc). We've
handled such subqueries via #1876.
* Combination of subqueries that are not joined on distribution keys.
This commit aims to recursively plan some of such subqueries to make
the whole query safe to pushdown.
The main logic behind non colocated subquery joins is that we pick
an anchor range table entry and check for distribution key equality
of any other subqueries in the given query. If for a given subquery,
we cannot find distribution key equality with the anchor rte, we
recursively plan that subquery.
We also used a hacky solution for picking relations as the anchor range
table entries. The hack is that we wrap them into a subquery. This is only
necessary since some of the attribute equivalance checks are based on
queries rather than range table entries.
With this commit, Citus recursively plans subqueries that
are not safe to pushdown, in other words, requires a merge
step.
The algorithm is simple: Recursively traverse the query from bottom
up (i.e., bottom meaning the leaf queries). On each level, check
whether the query is safe to pushdown (or a single repartition
subquery). If the answer is yes, do not touch that subquery. If the
answer is no, plan the subquery seperately (i.e., create a subPlan
for it) and replace the subquery with a call to
`read_intermediate_results(planId, subPlanId)`. During the the
execution, run the subPlans first, and make them avaliable to the
next query executions.
Some of the queries hat this change allows us:
* Subqueries with LIMIT
* Subqueries with GROUP BY/DISTINCT on non-partition keys
* Subqueries involving re-partition joins, router queries
* Mixed usage of subqueries and CTEs (i.e., use CTEs in
subqueries as well). Nested subqueries as long as we
support the subquery inside the nested subquery.
* Subqueries with local tables (i.e., those subqueries
has the limitation that they have to be leaf subqueries)
* VIEWs on the distributed tables just works (i.e., the
limitations mentioned below still applies to views)
Some of the queries that is still NOT supported:
* Corrolated subqueries that are not safe to pushdown
* Window function on non-partition keys
* Recursively planned subqueries or CTEs on the outer
side of an outer join
* Only recursively planned subqueries and CTEs in the FROM
(i.e., not any distributed tables in the FROM) and subqueries
in WHERE clause
* Subquery joins that are not on the partition columns (i.e., each
subquery is individually joined on partition keys but not the upper
level subquery.)
* Any limitation that logical planner applies such as aggregate
distincts (except for count) when GROUP BY is on non-partition key,
or array_agg with ORDER BY
With this commit, we allow pushing down subqueries with only
reference tables where GROUP BY or DISTINCT clause or Window
functions include only columns from reference tables.
This commit provides the support for window functions in subquery and insert
into select queries. Note that our support for window functions is still limited
because it must have a partition by clause on the distribution key. This commit
makes changes in the files insert_select_planner and multi_logical_planner. The
required tests are also added with files multi_subquery_window_functions.out
and multi_insert_select_window.out.
With this commit, we relax the restrictions put on the reference
tables with subquery pushdown.
We did three notable improvements:
1) Relax equi-join restrictions
Previously, we always expected that the non-reference tables are
equi joined with reference tables on the partition key of the
non-reference table.
With this commit, we allow any column of non-reference tables
joined using non-equi joins as well.
2) Relax OUTER JOIN restrictions
Previously Citus errored out if any reference table exists at
any point of the outer part of an outer join. For instance,
See the below sketch where (h) denotes a hash distributed relation,
(r) denotes a reference table, (L) denotes LEFT JOIN and
(I) denotes INNER JOIN.
(L)
/ \
(I) h
/ \
r h
Before this commit Citus would error out since a reference table
appears on the left most part of an left join. However, that was
too restrictive so that we only error out if the reference table
is directly below and in the outer part of an outer join.
3) Bug fixes
We've done some minor bugfixes in the existing implementation.
Onur Tirtir
aykut-bozkurt
Onder Kalaci
Philip Dubé
Jelte Fennema
Onder Kalaci
Murat Tuncer
Marco Slot
mehmet furkan şahin
velioglu