Tom Lane 92a43e4857 Reduce semijoins with unique inner relations to plain inner joins.
If the inner relation can be proven unique, that is it can have no more
than one matching row for any row of the outer query, then we might as
well implement the semijoin as a plain inner join, allowing substantially
more freedom to the planner.  This is a form of outer join strength
reduction, but it can't be implemented in reduce_outer_joins() because
we don't have enough info about the individual relations at that stage.
Instead do it much like remove_useless_joins(): once we've built base
relations, we can make another pass over the SpecialJoinInfo list and
get rid of any entries representing reducible semijoins.

This is essentially a followon to the inner-unique patch (commit 9c7f5229a)
and makes use of the proof machinery that that patch created.  We need only
minor refactoring of innerrel_is_unique's API to support this usage.

Per performance complaint from Teodor Sigaev.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f994fc98-389f-4a46-d1bc-c42e05cb43ed@sigaev.ru
2017-05-01 14:53:42 -04:00

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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* planmain.c
* Routines to plan a single query
*
* What's in a name, anyway? The top-level entry point of the planner/
* optimizer is over in planner.c, not here as you might think from the
* file name. But this is the main code for planning a basic join operation,
* shorn of features like subselects, inheritance, aggregates, grouping,
* and so on. (Those are the things planner.c deals with.)
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2017, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* src/backend/optimizer/plan/planmain.c
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
#include "postgres.h"
#include "optimizer/clauses.h"
#include "optimizer/orclauses.h"
#include "optimizer/pathnode.h"
#include "optimizer/paths.h"
#include "optimizer/placeholder.h"
#include "optimizer/planmain.h"
/*
* query_planner
* Generate a path (that is, a simplified plan) for a basic query,
* which may involve joins but not any fancier features.
*
* Since query_planner does not handle the toplevel processing (grouping,
* sorting, etc) it cannot select the best path by itself. Instead, it
* returns the RelOptInfo for the top level of joining, and the caller
* (grouping_planner) can choose among the surviving paths for the rel.
*
* root describes the query to plan
* tlist is the target list the query should produce
* (this is NOT necessarily root->parse->targetList!)
* qp_callback is a function to compute query_pathkeys once it's safe to do so
* qp_extra is optional extra data to pass to qp_callback
*
* Note: the PlannerInfo node also includes a query_pathkeys field, which
* tells query_planner the sort order that is desired in the final output
* plan. This value is *not* available at call time, but is computed by
* qp_callback once we have completed merging the query's equivalence classes.
* (We cannot construct canonical pathkeys until that's done.)
*/
RelOptInfo *
query_planner(PlannerInfo *root, List *tlist,
query_pathkeys_callback qp_callback, void *qp_extra)
{
Query *parse = root->parse;
List *joinlist;
RelOptInfo *final_rel;
Index rti;
double total_pages;
/*
* If the query has an empty join tree, then it's something easy like
* "SELECT 2+2;" or "INSERT ... VALUES()". Fall through quickly.
*/
if (parse->jointree->fromlist == NIL)
{
/* We need a dummy joinrel to describe the empty set of baserels */
final_rel = build_empty_join_rel(root);
/*
* If query allows parallelism in general, check whether the quals are
* parallel-restricted. (We need not check final_rel->reltarget
* because it's empty at this point. Anything parallel-restricted in
* the query tlist will be dealt with later.)
*/
if (root->glob->parallelModeOK)
final_rel->consider_parallel =
is_parallel_safe(root, parse->jointree->quals);
/* The only path for it is a trivial Result path */
add_path(final_rel, (Path *)
create_result_path(root, final_rel,
final_rel->reltarget,
(List *) parse->jointree->quals));
/* Select cheapest path (pretty easy in this case...) */
set_cheapest(final_rel);
/*
* We still are required to call qp_callback, in case it's something
* like "SELECT 2+2 ORDER BY 1".
*/
root->canon_pathkeys = NIL;
(*qp_callback) (root, qp_extra);
return final_rel;
}
/*
* Init planner lists to empty.
*
* NOTE: append_rel_list was set up by subquery_planner, so do not touch
* here.
*/
root->join_rel_list = NIL;
root->join_rel_hash = NULL;
root->join_rel_level = NULL;
root->join_cur_level = 0;
root->canon_pathkeys = NIL;
root->left_join_clauses = NIL;
root->right_join_clauses = NIL;
root->full_join_clauses = NIL;
root->join_info_list = NIL;
root->placeholder_list = NIL;
root->fkey_list = NIL;
root->initial_rels = NIL;
/*
* Make a flattened version of the rangetable for faster access (this is
* OK because the rangetable won't change any more), and set up an empty
* array for indexing base relations.
*/
setup_simple_rel_arrays(root);
/*
* Construct RelOptInfo nodes for all base relations in query, and
* indirectly for all appendrel member relations ("other rels"). This
* will give us a RelOptInfo for every "simple" (non-join) rel involved in
* the query.
*
* Note: the reason we find the rels by searching the jointree and
* appendrel list, rather than just scanning the rangetable, is that the
* rangetable may contain RTEs for rels not actively part of the query,
* for example views. We don't want to make RelOptInfos for them.
*/
add_base_rels_to_query(root, (Node *) parse->jointree);
/*
* Examine the targetlist and join tree, adding entries to baserel
* targetlists for all referenced Vars, and generating PlaceHolderInfo
* entries for all referenced PlaceHolderVars. Restrict and join clauses
* are added to appropriate lists belonging to the mentioned relations. We
* also build EquivalenceClasses for provably equivalent expressions. The
* SpecialJoinInfo list is also built to hold information about join order
* restrictions. Finally, we form a target joinlist for make_one_rel() to
* work from.
*/
build_base_rel_tlists(root, tlist);
find_placeholders_in_jointree(root);
find_lateral_references(root);
joinlist = deconstruct_jointree(root);
/*
* Reconsider any postponed outer-join quals now that we have built up
* equivalence classes. (This could result in further additions or
* mergings of classes.)
*/
reconsider_outer_join_clauses(root);
/*
* If we formed any equivalence classes, generate additional restriction
* clauses as appropriate. (Implied join clauses are formed on-the-fly
* later.)
*/
generate_base_implied_equalities(root);
/*
* We have completed merging equivalence sets, so it's now possible to
* generate pathkeys in canonical form; so compute query_pathkeys and
* other pathkeys fields in PlannerInfo.
*/
(*qp_callback) (root, qp_extra);
/*
* Examine any "placeholder" expressions generated during subquery pullup.
* Make sure that the Vars they need are marked as needed at the relevant
* join level. This must be done before join removal because it might
* cause Vars or placeholders to be needed above a join when they weren't
* so marked before.
*/
fix_placeholder_input_needed_levels(root);
/*
* Remove any useless outer joins. Ideally this would be done during
* jointree preprocessing, but the necessary information isn't available
* until we've built baserel data structures and classified qual clauses.
*/
joinlist = remove_useless_joins(root, joinlist);
/*
* Also, reduce any semijoins with unique inner rels to plain inner joins.
* Likewise, this can't be done until now for lack of needed info.
*/
reduce_unique_semijoins(root);
/*
* Now distribute "placeholders" to base rels as needed. This has to be
* done after join removal because removal could change whether a
* placeholder is evaluable at a base rel.
*/
add_placeholders_to_base_rels(root);
/*
* Construct the lateral reference sets now that we have finalized
* PlaceHolderVar eval levels.
*/
create_lateral_join_info(root);
/*
* Match foreign keys to equivalence classes and join quals. This must be
* done after finalizing equivalence classes, and it's useful to wait till
* after join removal so that we can skip processing foreign keys
* involving removed relations.
*/
match_foreign_keys_to_quals(root);
/*
* Look for join OR clauses that we can extract single-relation
* restriction OR clauses from.
*/
extract_restriction_or_clauses(root);
/*
* We should now have size estimates for every actual table involved in
* the query, and we also know which if any have been deleted from the
* query by join removal; so we can compute total_table_pages.
*
* Note that appendrels are not double-counted here, even though we don't
* bother to distinguish RelOptInfos for appendrel parents, because the
* parents will still have size zero.
*
* XXX if a table is self-joined, we will count it once per appearance,
* which perhaps is the wrong thing ... but that's not completely clear,
* and detecting self-joins here is difficult, so ignore it for now.
*/
total_pages = 0;
for (rti = 1; rti < root->simple_rel_array_size; rti++)
{
RelOptInfo *brel = root->simple_rel_array[rti];
if (brel == NULL)
continue;
Assert(brel->relid == rti); /* sanity check on array */
if (IS_SIMPLE_REL(brel))
total_pages += (double) brel->pages;
}
root->total_table_pages = total_pages;
/*
* Ready to do the primary planning.
*/
final_rel = make_one_rel(root, joinlist);
/* Check that we got at least one usable path */
if (!final_rel || !final_rel->cheapest_total_path ||
final_rel->cheapest_total_path->param_info != NULL)
elog(ERROR, "failed to construct the join relation");
return final_rel;
}