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.
This change fixes the problem with joins with VARCHAR columns. Prior to
this change, when we tried to do large table joins on varchar columns, we got
an error of the form:
ERROR: cannot perform local joins that involve expressions
DETAIL: local joins can be performed between columns only.
This is because we have a check in CheckJoinBetweenColumns() which requires the
join clause to have only 'Var' nodes (i.e. columns). Postgres adds a relabel t
ype cast to cast the varchar to text; hence the type of the node is not T_Var
and the join fails.
The fix involves calling strip_implicit_coercions() to the left and right
arguments so that RELABELTYPE is stripped to VAR.
Fixes#76.
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.
Marco Slot
Onder Kalaci
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Murat Tuncer