Do it in two ways (a) re-use the rte list as much as possible instead of
re-calculating over and over again (b) Limit the recursion to the relevant
parts of the query tree
Before this commit, shardPlacements were identified with shardId, nodeName
and nodeport. Instead of using nodeName and nodePort, we now use nodeId
since it apparently has performance benefits in several places in the
code.
The rule for infinite recursion is the following:
- If the query contains a subquery which is recursively planned, and
no other subqueries can be recursively planned due to correlation
(e.g., LATERAL joins), the planner keeps recursing again and again.
One interesting thing here is that even if a subquery contains only intermediate
result(s), we re-recursively plan that. In the end, the logic in the code does the following:
- Try recursive planning any of the subqueries in the query tree
- If any subquery is recursively planned, call the planner again
where the subquery is replaced with the intermediate result.
- Try recursively planning any of the queries
- If any subquery is recursively planned, call the planner again
where the subquery (in this case it is already intermediate result)
is replaced with the intermediate result.
- Try recursively planning any of the queries
- If any subquery is recursively planned, call the planner again
where the subquery (in this case it is already intermediate result)
is replaced with the intermediate result.
- Try recursively planning any of the queries
- If any subquery is recursively planned, call the planner again
where the subquery (in this case it is already intermediate result)
is replaced with the intermediate result.
......
Since flattening query may flatten outer joins' columns into coalesce expr that is
in the USING part, and that was not expected before this commit, these queries were
erroring out. It is fixed by this commit with considering coalesce expression as well.
Before this commit, round-robin task assignment policy was relying
on the taskId. Thus, even inside a transaction, the tasks were
assigned to different nodes. This was especially problematic
while reading from reference tables within transaction blocks.
Because, we had to expand the distributed transaction to many
nodes that are not necessarily already in the distributed transaction.
In this context, we define "Fast Path Planning for SELECT" as trivial
queries where Citus can skip relying on the standard_planner() and
handle all the planning.
For router planner, standard_planner() is mostly important to generate
the necessary restriction information. Later, the restriction information
generated by the standard_planner is used to decide whether all the shards
that a distributed query touches reside on a single worker node. However,
standard_planner() does a lot of extra things such as cost estimation and
execution path generations which are completely unnecessary in the context
of distributed planning.
There are certain types of queries where Citus could skip relying on
standard_planner() to generate the restriction information. For queries
in the following format, Citus does not need any information that the
standard_planner() generates:
SELECT ... FROM single_table WHERE distribution_key = X; or
DELETE FROM single_table WHERE distribution_key = X; or
UPDATE single_table SET value_1 = value_2 + 1 WHERE distribution_key = X;
Note that the queries might not be as simple as the above such that
GROUP BY, WINDOW FUNCIONS, ORDER BY or HAVING etc. are all acceptable. The
only rule is that the query is on a single distributed (or reference) table
and there is a "distribution_key = X;" in the WHERE clause. With that, we
could use to decide the shard that a distributed query touches reside on
a worker node.
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.
Previously we allowed task assignment policy to have affect on router queries
with only intermediate results. However, that is erroneous since the code-path
that assigns placements relies on shardIds and placements, which doesn't exists
for intermediate results.
With this commit, we do not apply task assignment policies when a router query
hits only intermediate results.
We update column attributes of various clauses for a query
inluding target columns, select clauses when we introduce
new range table entries in the query.
It seems having clause column attributes were not updated.
This fix resolves the issue
Before this commit, Citus supported INSERT...SELECT queries with
ON CONFLICT or RETURNING clauses only for pushdownable ones, since
queries supported via coordinator were utilizing COPY infrastructure
of PG to send selected tuples to the target worker nodes.
After this PR, INSERT...SELECT queries with ON CONFLICT or RETURNING
clauses will be performed in two phases via coordinator. In the first
phase selected tuples will be saved to the intermediate table which
is colocated with target table of the INSERT...SELECT query. Note that,
a utility function to save results to the colocated intermediate result
also implemented as a part of this commit. In the second phase, INSERT..
SELECT query is directly run on the worker node using the intermediate
table as the source table.
Description: Support round-robin `task_assignment_policy` for queries to reference tables.
This PR allows users to query multiple placements of shards in a round robin fashion. When `citus.task_assignment_policy` is set to `'round-robin'` the planner will use a round robin scheduling feature when multiple shard placements are available.
The primary use-case is spreading the load of reference table queries to all the nodes in the cluster instead of hammering only the first placement of the reference table. Since reference tables share the same path for selecting the shards with single shard queries that have multiple placements (`citus.shard_replication_factor > 1`) this setting also allows users to spread the query load on these shards.
For modifying queries we do not apply a round-robin strategy. This would be negated by an extra reordering step in the executor for such queries where a `first-replica` strategy is enforced.
The file handling the utility functions (DDL) for citus organically grew over time and became unreasonably large. This refactor takes that file and refactored the functionality into separate files per command. Initially modeled after the directory and file layout that can be found in postgres.
Although the size of the change is quite big there are barely any code changes. Only one two functions have been added for readability purposes:
- PostProcessIndexStmt which is extracted from PostProcessUtility
- PostProcessAlterTableStmt which is extracted from multi_ProcessUtility
A README.md has been added to `src/backend/distributed/commands` describing the contents of the module and every file in the module.
We need more documentation around the overloading of the COPY command, for now the boilerplate has been added for people with better knowledge to fill out.
PG 11 has change the way that PARAM_EXTERN is processed.
This commit ensures that Citus follows the same pattern.
For details see the related Postgres commit:
6719b238e8
Both of these are a bit of a shot in the dark. In one case, we noticed
a stack trace where a caller received a null pointer and attempted to
dereference the memory context field (at 0x010). In the other, I saw
that any error thrown from within AdjustParseTree could keep the stack
from being cleaned up (presumably if we push we should always pop).
Both stack traces were collected during times of high memory pressure
and locally reproducing the problem locally or otherwise has been very
tricky (i.e. it hasn't been reproduced reliably at all).
With this commit, we all partitioned distributed tables with
replication factor > 1. However, we also have many restrictions.
In summary, we disallow all kinds of modifications (including DDLs)
on the partition tables. Instead, the user is allowed to run the
modifications over the parent table.
The necessity for such a restriction have two aspects:
- We need to acquire shard resource locks appropriately
- We need to handle marking partitions INVALID in case
of any failures. Note that, in theory, the parent table
should also become INVALID, which is too aggressive.
This commit uses *_walker instead of *_mutator for performance reasons.
Given that we're only updating a functionId in the tree, the approach
seems fine.
This commit by default enables hiding shard names on MX workers
by simple replacing `pg_table_is_visible()` calls with
`citus_table_is_visible()` calls on the MX worker nodes. The latter
function filters out tables that are known to be shards.
The main motivation of this change is a better UX. The functionality
can be opted out via a GUC.
We also added two views, namely citus_shards_on_worker and
citus_shard_indexes_on_worker such that users can query
them to see the shards and their corresponding indexes.
We also added debug messages such that the filtered tables can
be interactively seen by setting the level to DEBUG1.
We can now support more complex count distinct operations by
pulling necessary columns to coordinator and evalutating the
aggreage at coordinator.
It supports broad range of expression with the restriction that
the expression must contain a column.
* Change worker_hash_partition_table() such that the
divergence between Citus planner's hashing and
worker_hash_partition_table() becomes the same.
* Rename single partitioning to single range partitioning.
* Add single hash repartitioning. Basically, logical planner
treats single hash and range partitioning almost equally.
Physical planner, on the other hand, treats single hash and
dual hash repartitioning almost equally (except for JoinPruning).
* Add a new GUC to enable this feature
This commit doesn't change any of the logic at all.
Instead, the goal is to:
* Get rid of any code duplication
* Incremental changes to the optimizer made it slightly hard
to follow the code, improve that and make it easier to
implement new features
* Simplify the code by moving each part of query processing (e.g.,
DISTINCT, LIMIT etc) into its own function
* Make the interaction between each part of the query more
obvious (e.g., How DISTINCT affects LIMIT etc)
- changes in ruleutils_11.c is reflected
- vacuum statement api change is handled. We now allow
multi-table vacuum commands.
- some other function header changes are reflected
- api conflicts between PG11 and earlier versions
are handled by adding shims in version_compat.h
- various regression tests are fixed due output and
functionality in PG1
- no change is made to support new features in PG11
they need to be handled by new commit
Before this commit, we had code duplication in the
WorkerExtendedOpNode(). The duplication was
noticeable and any change is prone to bugs.
The PR consists of 4 commits. Each commit incrementally
fixes the problem by moving certain parts of the duplicated
code into smaller, better-documented functions.
Before this commit, we had a divergence among
the creation of master/worker extended op nodes.
This commit moves the related parts into a single place
and allows the creation of master/extended op nodes to
share a common data structure.
PostgreSQL might remove some of the subqueries when they do not
contribute to the query result at all. Citus should not try to
access such subqueries during planning.
This PR adds support for multiple AND expressions in Having
for pushdown planner. We simply make a call to make_ands_explicit
from MultiLogicalPlanOptimize for the having qual in
workerExtendedOpNode.
After this commit large_table_shard_count wont be used to
check whether broadcast join, which is renamed as reference
join, can be applied. Reference join can only be applied over
reference tables.
After this change all the logic related to shard data fetch logic
will be removed. Planner won't plan any ShardFetchTask anymore.
Shard fetch related steps in real time executor and task-tracker
executor have been removed.
Pushing down limit and order by into workers may produce
wrong output when distinct on() clause has expressions,
aggregates, or window functions.
This checking allows pushing down of limits only if
distinct clause is a superset of group by clause. i.e. it contains all clauses in group by.
This is the first of series of window function work.
We can now support window functions that can be pushed down to workers.
Window function must have distribution column in the partition clause
to be pushed down.
We push down order by to worker query when limit is specified
(with some other additional checks). If the query has an expression
on an aggregate or avg aggregate by itself, and there is an order
by on this particular target we may send wrong order by to worker
query with potential to affect query result.
The fix creates a auxilary target entry in the worker query and
uses that target entry for sorting.
Before this PR, we were trusting on the columns of group by about
guaranteeing the uniqueness of the results. However, this assumption
is correct only if the columns in the group by is subset of columns
in the distinct clause. It can be wrong if we have part of group by
columns and some aggregation columns in the distinct clause. With
this PR, we add distinct plan on top of aggregate plan when necessary.
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.
We used to only support pushdownable set operations inside a
subquery, however, we could easily expand the restriction
checks to cover top level set operations as well.
We use PostgreSQL hooks to accumulate the join restrictions
and PostgreSQL gives us all the join paths it tries while
deciding on the join order. Thus, for queries that have many
joins, this function is likely to remove lots of duplicate join
restrictions. This becomes relevant for Citus on query pushdown
check peformance.
We were allowing count distict queries even if they were
not directly on columns if the query is grouped on
distribution column.
When performing these checks we were skipping subqueries
because they also perform this check in a more concise manner.
We relied on oid SUBQUERY_RELATION_ID (10000) to decide if
a given RTE relation id denotes a subquery, however, we also
use SUBQUERY_PUSHDOWN_RELATION_ID (10001) for some subqueries.
We skip both type of subqueries with this change.
clause is not supported
This change allows unsupported clauses to go through query pushdown
planner instead of erroring out as we already do for non-outer joins.
We used to error out if the join clause includes filters like
t1.a < t2.a even if other filter like t1.key = t2.key exists.
Recently we lifted that restriction in subquery planning by
not lifting that restriction and focusing on equivalance classes
provided by postgres.
This checkin forwards previously erroring out real-time queries
due to join clauses to subquery planner and let it handle the
join even if the query does not have a subquery.
We are now pushing down queries that do not have any
subqueries in it. Error message looked misleading, changed to a more descriptive one.
We were creating intermediate query result's target
names from subquery target list. Now we also check
if cte re-defines its column name aliases, and create
intermediate result query accordingly.
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
Postgres provides OS agnosting formatting macros for
formatting 64 bit numbers. Replaced %ld %lu with
INT64_FORMAT and UINT64_FORMAT respectively.
Also found some incorrect usages of formatting
flags and fixed them.
We added the ability to filter out the planner restriction information
for specific parts of the query. This might lead to situations where
the common restriction includes some other relations that we're searching
for. The reason is that while filtering for join restrictions, we add the
restriction as soon as we find the relation.
With this commit we make sure that the common attribute
equivalance class always includes the input relations.
In subquery pushdown, we first ensure that each relation is joined with at least
on another relation on the partition keys. That's fine given that the decision
is binary: pushdown the query at all or not.
With recursive planning, we'd want to check whether any specific part
of the query can be pushded down or not. Thus, we need the ability to
understand which part(s) of the subquery is safe to pushdown. This commit
adds the infrastructure for doing that.
Note that we used to iterate over the RTEs once for performance reasons.
However, keeping an extra copy of original query seems more costly and
hard to maintain/explain.
Subquery pushdown planning is based on relation restriction
equivalnce. This brings us the opportuneatly to allow any
other joins as long as there is an already equi join between
the distributed tables.
We already allow that for joins with reference tables and
this commit allows that for joins among distributed tables.
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.
It's possible to build INSERT SELECT queries which include implicit
casts, currently we attempt to support these by adding explicit casts to
the SELECT query, but this sometimes crashes because we don't update all
nodes with the new types. (SortClauses, for instance)
This commit removes those explicit casts and passes an unmodified SELECT
query to the COPY executor (how we implement INSERT SELECT under the
scenes). In lieu of those cases, COPY has been given some extra logic to
inspect queries, notice that the types don't line up with the table it's
supposed to be inserting into, and "manually" casting every tuple before
sending them to workers.
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.
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.
Citus can handle INSERT INTO ... SELECT queries if the query inserts
into local table by reading data from distributed table. The opposite
way is not correct. With this commit we warn the user if the latter
option is used.
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.
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