Tom Lane f9aefcb91f Support using index-only scans with partial indexes in more cases.
Previously, the planner would reject an index-only scan if any restriction
clause for its table used a column not available from the index, even
if that restriction clause would later be dropped from the plan entirely
because it's implied by the index's predicate.  This is a fairly common
situation for partial indexes because predicates using columns not included
in the index are often the most useful kind of predicate, and we have to
duplicate (or at least imply) the predicate in the WHERE clause in order
to get the index to be considered at all.  So index-only scans were
essentially unavailable with such partial indexes.

To fix, we have to do detection of implied-by-predicate clauses much
earlier in the planner.  This patch puts it in check_index_predicates
(nee check_partial_indexes), meaning it gets done for every partial index,
whereas we previously only considered this issue at createplan time,
so that the work was only done for an index actually selected for use.
That could result in a noticeable planning slowdown for queries against
tables with many partial indexes.  However, testing suggested that there
isn't really a significant cost, especially not with reasonable numbers
of partial indexes.  We do get a small additional benefit, which is that
cost_index is more accurate since it correctly discounts the evaluation
cost of clauses that will be removed.  We can also avoid considering such
clauses as potential indexquals, which saves useless matching cycles in
the case where the predicate columns aren't in the index, and prevents
generating bogus plans that double-count the clause's selectivity when
the columns are in the index.

Tomas Vondra and Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Kevin Grittner and
Konstantin Knizhnik, and whacked around a little by me
2016-03-31 14:49:10 -04:00

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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* paths.h
* prototypes for various files in optimizer/path
*
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2016, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* src/include/optimizer/paths.h
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
#ifndef PATHS_H
#define PATHS_H
#include "nodes/relation.h"
/*
* allpaths.c
*/
extern bool enable_geqo;
extern int geqo_threshold;
/* Hook for plugins to get control in set_rel_pathlist() */
typedef void (*set_rel_pathlist_hook_type) (PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel,
Index rti,
RangeTblEntry *rte);
extern PGDLLIMPORT set_rel_pathlist_hook_type set_rel_pathlist_hook;
/* Hook for plugins to get control in add_paths_to_joinrel() */
typedef void (*set_join_pathlist_hook_type) (PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *joinrel,
RelOptInfo *outerrel,
RelOptInfo *innerrel,
JoinType jointype,
JoinPathExtraData *extra);
extern PGDLLIMPORT set_join_pathlist_hook_type set_join_pathlist_hook;
/* Hook for plugins to replace standard_join_search() */
typedef RelOptInfo *(*join_search_hook_type) (PlannerInfo *root,
int levels_needed,
List *initial_rels);
extern PGDLLIMPORT join_search_hook_type join_search_hook;
extern RelOptInfo *make_one_rel(PlannerInfo *root, List *joinlist);
extern void set_dummy_rel_pathlist(RelOptInfo *rel);
extern RelOptInfo *standard_join_search(PlannerInfo *root, int levels_needed,
List *initial_rels);
extern void generate_gather_paths(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
#ifdef OPTIMIZER_DEBUG
extern void debug_print_rel(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
#endif
/*
* indxpath.c
* routines to generate index paths
*/
extern void create_index_paths(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
extern bool relation_has_unique_index_for(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
List *restrictlist,
List *exprlist, List *oprlist);
extern bool match_index_to_operand(Node *operand, int indexcol,
IndexOptInfo *index);
extern void expand_indexqual_conditions(IndexOptInfo *index,
List *indexclauses, List *indexclausecols,
List **indexquals_p, List **indexqualcols_p);
extern void check_index_predicates(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
extern Expr *adjust_rowcompare_for_index(RowCompareExpr *clause,
IndexOptInfo *index,
int indexcol,
List **indexcolnos,
bool *var_on_left_p);
/*
* tidpath.h
* routines to generate tid paths
*/
extern void create_tidscan_paths(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
/*
* joinpath.c
* routines to create join paths
*/
extern void add_paths_to_joinrel(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *joinrel,
RelOptInfo *outerrel, RelOptInfo *innerrel,
JoinType jointype, SpecialJoinInfo *sjinfo,
List *restrictlist);
/*
* joinrels.c
* routines to determine which relations to join
*/
extern void join_search_one_level(PlannerInfo *root, int level);
extern RelOptInfo *make_join_rel(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel1, RelOptInfo *rel2);
extern bool have_join_order_restriction(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel1, RelOptInfo *rel2);
extern bool have_dangerous_phv(PlannerInfo *root,
Relids outer_relids, Relids inner_params);
/*
* equivclass.c
* routines for managing EquivalenceClasses
*/
typedef bool (*ec_matches_callback_type) (PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel,
EquivalenceClass *ec,
EquivalenceMember *em,
void *arg);
extern bool process_equivalence(PlannerInfo *root, RestrictInfo *restrictinfo,
bool below_outer_join);
extern Expr *canonicalize_ec_expression(Expr *expr,
Oid req_type, Oid req_collation);
extern void reconsider_outer_join_clauses(PlannerInfo *root);
extern EquivalenceClass *get_eclass_for_sort_expr(PlannerInfo *root,
Expr *expr,
Relids nullable_relids,
List *opfamilies,
Oid opcintype,
Oid collation,
Index sortref,
Relids rel,
bool create_it);
extern void generate_base_implied_equalities(PlannerInfo *root);
extern List *generate_join_implied_equalities(PlannerInfo *root,
Relids join_relids,
Relids outer_relids,
RelOptInfo *inner_rel);
extern bool exprs_known_equal(PlannerInfo *root, Node *item1, Node *item2);
extern void add_child_rel_equivalences(PlannerInfo *root,
AppendRelInfo *appinfo,
RelOptInfo *parent_rel,
RelOptInfo *child_rel);
extern List *generate_implied_equalities_for_column(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel,
ec_matches_callback_type callback,
void *callback_arg,
Relids prohibited_rels);
extern bool have_relevant_eclass_joinclause(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel1, RelOptInfo *rel2);
extern bool has_relevant_eclass_joinclause(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel1);
extern bool eclass_useful_for_merging(PlannerInfo *root,
EquivalenceClass *eclass,
RelOptInfo *rel);
extern bool is_redundant_derived_clause(RestrictInfo *rinfo, List *clauselist);
/*
* pathkeys.c
* utilities for matching and building path keys
*/
typedef enum
{
PATHKEYS_EQUAL, /* pathkeys are identical */
PATHKEYS_BETTER1, /* pathkey 1 is a superset of pathkey 2 */
PATHKEYS_BETTER2, /* vice versa */
PATHKEYS_DIFFERENT /* neither pathkey includes the other */
} PathKeysComparison;
extern PathKeysComparison compare_pathkeys(List *keys1, List *keys2);
extern bool pathkeys_contained_in(List *keys1, List *keys2);
extern Path *get_cheapest_path_for_pathkeys(List *paths, List *pathkeys,
Relids required_outer,
CostSelector cost_criterion);
extern Path *get_cheapest_fractional_path_for_pathkeys(List *paths,
List *pathkeys,
Relids required_outer,
double fraction);
extern List *build_index_pathkeys(PlannerInfo *root, IndexOptInfo *index,
ScanDirection scandir);
extern List *build_expression_pathkey(PlannerInfo *root, Expr *expr,
Relids nullable_relids, Oid opno,
Relids rel, bool create_it);
extern List *convert_subquery_pathkeys(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
List *subquery_pathkeys,
List *subquery_tlist);
extern List *build_join_pathkeys(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *joinrel,
JoinType jointype,
List *outer_pathkeys);
extern List *make_pathkeys_for_sortclauses(PlannerInfo *root,
List *sortclauses,
List *tlist);
extern void initialize_mergeclause_eclasses(PlannerInfo *root,
RestrictInfo *restrictinfo);
extern void update_mergeclause_eclasses(PlannerInfo *root,
RestrictInfo *restrictinfo);
extern List *find_mergeclauses_for_pathkeys(PlannerInfo *root,
List *pathkeys,
bool outer_keys,
List *restrictinfos);
extern List *select_outer_pathkeys_for_merge(PlannerInfo *root,
List *mergeclauses,
RelOptInfo *joinrel);
extern List *make_inner_pathkeys_for_merge(PlannerInfo *root,
List *mergeclauses,
List *outer_pathkeys);
extern List *truncate_useless_pathkeys(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel,
List *pathkeys);
extern bool has_useful_pathkeys(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel);
extern PathKey *make_canonical_pathkey(PlannerInfo *root,
EquivalenceClass *eclass, Oid opfamily,
int strategy, bool nulls_first);
#endif /* PATHS_H */