Previously a limitation in the shard pruning logic caused multi distribution value queries to always go into all the shards/workers whenever query also used OR conditions in WHERE clause.
Related to https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/2593 and https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/1537
There was no good workaround for this limitation. The limitation caused quite a bit of overhead with simple queries being sent to all workers/shards (especially with setups having lot of workers/shards).
An example of a previous plan which was inadequately pruned:
```
EXPLAIN SELECT count(*) FROM orders_hash_partitioned
WHERE (o_orderkey IN (1,2)) AND (o_custkey = 11 OR o_custkey = 22);
QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Aggregate (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=0 width=0)
-> Custom Scan (Citus Adaptive) (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=0 width=0)
Task Count: 4
Tasks Shown: One of 4
-> Task
Node: host=localhost port=xxxxx dbname=regression
-> Aggregate (cost=13.68..13.69 rows=1 width=8)
-> Seq Scan on orders_hash_partitioned_630000 orders_hash_partitioned (cost=0.00..13.68 rows=1 width=0)
Filter: ((o_orderkey = ANY ('{1,2}'::integer[])) AND ((o_custkey = 11) OR (o_custkey = 22)))
(9 rows)
```
After this commit the task count is what one would expect from the query defining multiple distinct values for the distribution column:
```
EXPLAIN SELECT count(*) FROM orders_hash_partitioned
WHERE (o_orderkey IN (1,2)) AND (o_custkey = 11 OR o_custkey = 22);
QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Aggregate (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=0 width=0)
-> Custom Scan (Citus Adaptive) (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=0 width=0)
Task Count: 2
Tasks Shown: One of 2
-> Task
Node: host=localhost port=xxxxx dbname=regression
-> Aggregate (cost=13.68..13.69 rows=1 width=8)
-> Seq Scan on orders_hash_partitioned_630000 orders_hash_partitioned (cost=0.00..13.68 rows=1 width=0)
Filter: ((o_orderkey = ANY ('{1,2}'::integer[])) AND ((o_custkey = 11) OR (o_custkey = 22)))
(9 rows)
```
"Core" of the pruning logic works as previously where it uses `PrunableInstances` to queue ORable valid constraints for shard pruning.
The difference is that now we build a compact internal representation of the query expression tree with PruningTreeNodes before actual shard pruning is run.
Pruning tree nodes represent boolean operators and the associated constraints of it. This internal format allows us to have compact representation of the query WHERE clauses which allows "core" pruning logic to work with OR-clauses correctly.
For example query having
`WHERE (o_orderkey IN (1,2)) AND (o_custkey=11 OR (o_shippriority > 1 AND o_shippriority < 10))`
gets transformed into:
1. AND(o_orderkey IN (1,2), OR(X, AND(X, X)))
2. AND(o_orderkey IN (1,2), OR(X, X))
3. AND(o_orderkey IN (1,2), X)
Here X is any set of unknown condition(s) for shard pruning.
This allow the final shard pruning to correctly recognize that shard pruning is done with the valid condition of `o_orderkey IN (1,2)`.
Another example with unprunable condition in query
`WHERE (o_orderkey IN (1,2)) OR (o_custkey=11 AND o_custkey=22)`
gets transformed into:
1. OR(o_orderkey IN (1,2), AND(X, X))
2. OR(o_orderkey IN (1,2), X)
Which is recognized as unprunable due to the OR condition between distribution column and unknown constraint -> goes to all shards.
Issue https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues/1537 originally suggested transforming the query conditions into a full disjunctive normal form (DNF),
but this process of transforming into DNF is quite a heavy operation. It may "blow up" into a really large DNF form with complex queries having non trivial `WHERE` clauses.
I think the logic for shard pruning could be simplified further but I decided to leave the "core" of the shard pruning untouched.
* Update shardPlacement->nodeId to uint
As the source of the shardPlacement->nodeId is always workerNode->nodeId,
and that is uint32.
We had this hack because of: 0ea4e52df5 (r266421409)
And, that is gone with: 90056f7d3c (diff-c532177d74c72d3f0e7cd10e448ab3c6L1123)
So, we're safe to do it now.
* Relax the restrictions on using the local execution
Previously, whenever any local execution happens, we disabled further
commands to do any remote queries. The basic motivation for doing that
is to prevent any accesses in the same transaction block to access the
same placements over multiple sessions: one is local session the other
is remote session to the same placement.
However, the current implementation does not distinguish local accesses
being to a placement or not. For example, we could have local accesses
that only touches intermediate results. In that case, we should not
implement the same restrictions as they become useless.
So, this is a pre-requisite for executing the intermediate result only
queries locally.
* Update the error messages
As the underlying implementation has changed, reflect it in the error
messages.
* Keep track of connections to local node
With this commit, we're adding infrastructure to track if any connection
to the same local host is done or not.
The main motivation for doing this is that we've previously were more
conservative about not choosing local execution. Simply, we disallowed
local execution if any connection to any remote node is done. However,
if we want to use local execution for intermediate result only queries,
this'd be annoying because we expect all queries to touch remote node
before the final query.
Note that this approach is still limiting in Citus MX case, but for now
we can ignore that.
* Formalize the concept of Local Node
Also some minor refactoring while creating the dummy placement
* Write intermediate results locally when the results are only needed locally
Before this commit, Citus used to always broadcast all the intermediate
results to remote nodes. However, it is possible to skip pushing
the results to remote nodes always.
There are two notable cases for doing that:
(a) When the query consists of only intermediate results
(b) When the query is a zero shard query
In both of the above cases, we don't need to access any data on the shards. So,
it is a valuable optimization to skip pushing the results to remote nodes.
The pattern mentioned in (a) is actually a common patterns that Citus users
use in practice. For example, if you have the following query:
WITH cte_1 AS (...), cte_2 AS (....), ... cte_n (...)
SELECT ... FROM cte_1 JOIN cte_2 .... JOIN cte_n ...;
The final query could be operating only on intermediate results. With this patch,
the intermediate results of the ctes are not unnecessarily pushed to remote
nodes.
* Add specific regression tests
As there are edge cases in Citus MX and with round-robin policy,
use the same queries on those cases as well.
* Fix failure tests
By forcing not to use local execution for intermediate results since
all the tests expects the results to be pushed remotely.
* Fix flaky test
* Apply code-review feedback
Mostly style changes
* Limit the max value of pg_dist_node_seq to reserve for internal use
This is purely to enable better performance with prepared statements.
Before this commit, the fast path queries with prepared statements
where the distribution key includes a parameter always went through
distributed planning. After this change, we only go through distributed
planning on the first 5 executions.
These set of tests has changed in both PG 11 and PG 12.
The changes are only about CTE inlining kicking in both
versions, and yielding the exact same distributed planning.
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.
Markus Sintonen
Önder Kalacı
Jelte Fennema
Philip Dubé