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.
utilityStmt sometimes (such as when it's inside of a plpgsql function)
comes from a cached plan, which is kept in a child of the
CacheMemoryContext. When we naively call copyObject we're copying it into
a statement-local context, which corrupts the cached plan when it's
thrown away.
All router, real-time, task-tracker plannable queries should now have
full prepared statement support (and even use router when possible),
unless they don't go through the custom plan interface (which
basically just affects LANGUAGE SQL (not plpgsql) functions).
This is achieved by forcing postgres' planner to always choose a
custom plan, by assigning very low costs to plans with bound
parameters (i.e. ones were the postgres planner replanned the query
upon EXECUTE with all parameter values provided), instead of the
generic one.
This requires some trickery, because for custom plans to work the
costs for a non-custom plan have to be known, which means we can't
error out when planning the generic plan. Instead we have to return a
"faux" plan, that'd trigger an error message if executed. But due to
the custom plan logic that plan will likely (unless called by an SQL
function, or because we can't support that query for some reason) not
be executed; instead the custom plan will be chosen.
Fixes#271
This change sets ShardIds and JobIds for each test case. Before this change,
when a new test that somehow increments Job or Shard IDs is added, then
the tests after the new test should be updated.
ShardID and JobID sequences are set at the beginning of each file with the
following commands:
```
ALTER SEQUENCE pg_catalog.pg_dist_shardid_seq RESTART 290000;
ALTER SEQUENCE pg_catalog.pg_dist_jobid_seq RESTART 290000;
```
ShardIds and JobIds are multiples of 10000. Exceptions are:
- multi_large_shardid: shardid and jobid sequences are set to much larger values
- multi_fdw_large_shardid: same as above
- multi_join_pruning: Causes a race condition with multi_hash_pruning since
they are run in parallel.
All citusdb references in
- extension, binary names
- file headers
- all configuration name prefixes
- error/warning messages
- some functions names
- regression tests
are changed to be citus.