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.
With #426, some new warning messages started to arise, because of
cross assignment of Node and Expr pointers. This change fixes the
warnings with type casts.
Fixes#379
Varchar VAR struct is wrapped in RELABELTYPE struct inside PostgreSQL code and
IsPartitionColumnRecursive function considers only VAR types so returning false
for varchar.
This change adds strip_implicit_coercions() call to the columnExpression in
IsPartitionColumnRecursive function so that we get rid of implicit coercions like
RELABELTYPE are stripped to VAR.
Fixes#375
Prior to this change, shard pruning couldn't be done if:
- Table is hash-distributed
- Partition column of is VARCHAR
- Query to be pruned is a subquery
There were two problems:
- A bug in left-side/right-side checks for the partition column
- We were not considering relabeled types (VARCHAR was relabeled as TEXT)