This commit adds a fast shard pruning path for INSERTs on
hash-partitioned tables. The rationale behind this change is
that if there exists a sorted shard interval array, a single
index lookup on the array allows us to find the corresponding
shard interval. As mentioned above, we need a sorted
(wrt shardminvalue) shard interval array. Thus, this commit
updates shardIntervalArray to sortedShardIntervalArray in the
metadata cache. Then uses the low-level API that is defined in
multi_copy to handle the fast shard pruning.
The performance impact of this change is more apparent as more
shards exist for a distributed table. Previous implementation
was relying on linear search through the shard intervals. However,
this commit relies on constant lookup time on shard interval
array. Thus, the shard pruning becomes less dependent on the
shard count.
Fixes issue #258
Prior to this change, Citus gives a deceptive NOTICE message when a query
including ANY or ALL on a non-partition column is issued on a hash
partitioned table.
Let the github_events table be hash-distributed on repo_id column. Then,
issuing this query:
SELECT count(*) FROM github_events WHERE event_id = ANY ('{1,2,3}')
Gives this message:
NOTICE: cannot use shard pruning with ANY (array expression)
HINT: Consider rewriting the expression with OR clauses.
Note that since event_id is not the partition column, shard pruning would
not be applied in any case. However, the NOTICE message would be valid
and be given if the ANY clause would have been applied on repo_id column.
Reviewer: Murat Tuncer