This commit changes the behaviour of the citus.subquery_pushdown flag.
Before this commit, the flag is used to enable subquery pushdown logic. But,
with this commit, that behaviour is enabled by default. In other words, the
flag is now useless. We prefer to keep the flag since we don't want to break
the backward compatibility. Also, we may consider using that flag for other
purposes in the next commits.
This commit adds support for UNION/UNION ALL subqueries that are
in the following form:
.... (Q1 UNION Q2 UNION ...) as union_query ....
In other words, Citus supports allow top level
unions being wrapped into aggregations queries
and/or simple projection queries that only selects
some fields from the lower level queries.
This commit adds support for UNION/UNION ALL subqueries that are
in the following form:
.... (Q1 UNION Q2 UNION ...) as union_query JOIN (QN) ...
In other words, we currently do NOT support the queries that are
in the following form where union query is not JOINed with
other relations/subqueries :
.... (Q1 UNION Q2 UNION ...) as union_query ....
In this PR, we aim to deduce whether each of the RTE_RELATION
is joined with at least on another RTE_RELATION on their partition keys. If each
RTE_RELATION follows the above rule, we can conclude that all RTE_RELATIONs are
joined on their partition keys.
In order to do that, we invented a new equivalence class namely:
AttributeEquivalenceClass. In very simple words, a AttributeEquivalenceClass is
identified by an unique id and consists of a list of AttributeEquivalenceMembers.
Each AttributeEquivalenceMember is designed to identify attributes uniquely within the
whole query. The necessity of this arise since varno attributes are defined within
a single level of a query. Instead, here we want to identify each RTE_RELATION uniquely
and try to find equality among each RTE_RELATION's partition key.
Whenever we find an equality clause A = B, where both A and B originates from
relation attributes (i.e., not random expressions), we create an
AttributeEquivalenceClass to record this knowledge. If we later find another
equivalence B = C, we create another AttributeEquivalenceClass. Finally, we can
apply transitity rules and generate a new AttributeEquivalenceClass which includes
A, B and C.
Note that equality among the members are identified by the varattno and rteIdentity.
Each equality among RTE_RELATION is saved using an AttributeEquivalenceClass where
each member attribute is identified by a AttributeEquivalenceMember. In the final
step, we try generate a common attribute equivalence class that holds as much as
AttributeEquivalenceMembers whose attributes are a partition keys.
Onder Kalaci